What is your system advice? Solved.

[Stephen Partington]

you bought it an SSD instead of a fan?

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:

>
>
> I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo
> support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced.
> It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 160GB 7200 rpm
> drive.
>
> The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the extra
> 60 bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores disabled in
> bios and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz.
>
> I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it with
> a single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with a fancy
> new core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same SSD in the
> zBook... but that's a different story.
>
> Long live Lenovo Thinkpads!
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-10-06 16:02, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>
>> Thanks again for all the helpful input in response to my
>> recent question: "What is your advice to update my system?"
>>
>> After much research, I finally decided that, for my needs, the best
>> option was a used T420 Thinkpad. I've had excellent results with IBM
>> Thinkpads and never had one fail. Now they are all Lenovo, of course; and
>> I found one from a private party on Craigslist for $200 that looks
>> absolutely brand new, like it has never been used, and with 8-Gb RAM.
>>
>> Lots of them on ebay for as little as $99 with no OS and priced all over
>> the map up to $500 and even more.
>>
>> Now just need to flush the 500-gig hard drive and install Linux Mint and
>> I should be good to go for the next 5 years or longer.
>>
>>
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