The one issue I have with my T43, happens to be the battery. Bought two
of them from an Amazon vendor a few years ago. One didn't last more than
an hour (on Linux) and the vendor replaced both. From the new batteries,
gradually, one would only last one hour using Linux and the second
battery actually held its charge all these years, unopened and it lasts
closer to an hour and a half. Unfortunately, they're 6-cell batteries.
9-cell is better.
Bill Ricker wrote:
Is it my imagination, or are 8 year old laptops much more physically
robust than their modern counterparts?
My ThinkPad T43 (IBM-logo'd, but references it was manufactured by Lenovo on
the bottom) is still going. Its BIOS is from 2005 and is happily running
Fedora today.
Yeah. T61 here. Just bought a second cheap (no battery, honestly missing).
As i said, i've heard Lenovo ThinkPad build quality remained good
through the last model with 2 sets of physical mice switches, but the
latest models less so.
(Problem with the T40/T41 was the screen-back-light and it's voltage
converter were known early-fail components.)
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