Wow! What a coincidence! My longtime friend dropped off his Thinkcentre with me (808533U) because of a bad smell followed by a dead computer. Well after spending $29 dollars to a salvager for the replacement L-shaped supply (230W for a Pentium 4 3.2 processor based machine?, Come on IBM!: Christmas gift from this guy's daughter, paid over $2000 in 2005 dollars, but that's another story), I was immediately shocked to find this 'gem' with only 256mb DDR PC 3200 ram (Samsung PC3200U CL3 IBM FRU 73P2683). Since I was working this for a quick turnaround, I was off to the local chains: End result: PNY MD1024SD1-400 for $108 at Staples). Had a chance to get some EDGE memory for $79, but the savings and time to get it was not 'worth' it. Also I think I maxxed out this machine in spite of the 4 slot configuration (i.e. 2 gig is the stated MB max).
OH and JIC: Best Buy had a chance to price match for a store that was less than 2 miles away (they did not!, but again another story, i.e. they wanted $64 each for the PNY stuff). HTH. Andre' -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Donald MacQueen Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:28 AM To: Lewis Bailey Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Need M-51 Ram Lewis Bailey wrote: > Howdy All, > I enjoy the list and have learned much from all you folks. > I am using an X61 laptop and desktop to run some software. > I have bought a refurbed ThinkCentre M-51 and need more ram to run some > scanning programs. > I had a similar problem but I could afford to wait, so I went to dealnews.com and signed up for an email alert on the memory I wanted, and eventually found some for much less than Crucial wanted. You can also cruise ebay but it is more difficult to know that you are getting the right stuff. Hth, Donald > Here is what I know about the IBM machine. > It has two sticks of 512 and two empty slots. > XP pro OS--Model MT-M 8143-DE1 serial number LPFDRW5 > 3.4 CPU. > Crucial wants $89.90 for two 1GB (2x1GB) sticks. DDR PC3200 . CL=3 . > Unbuffered . NON-ECC . DDR400 . 2.6V . 128Meg x 64 > Does anyone have some to sale or point me to a better deal? > Many thanks, Lewis Bailey > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
