What is your system advice? Solved.

[Nathan England]

Good point! 

Actually, it was an extra SSD I had that I was not using. I figured it
might make it a little quicker and I won't have to spend any money on
it. 

One of these days I would like to replace that fan. 

On 2015-10-07 11:34, Stephen Partington wrote: 

> 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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Stephen

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