Anthony Tigero wrote: > Trusted friends and advisors,I think it is time to replace my home use > Thinkpad. When I retired 5 years ago I replaced my company T-22 with a > refurb T-22. It is now running a little short in the horsepower > department with regards to Youtube video on email attachments and other > processor intensive activities. I use the Office Suite with Outlook. > Sync my smartphone with Outlook. Use Photoshop Essentials. Also the lack > of a usb 2.0 port without using a PC-Card is getting to be a problem. My > peripheral devices are mostly USB-2 with an occasional firewire device. > I do have a Firewire PC-Card for that purpose if necessary. I really > like having a removable CD/DVD drive and the use of a hard drive caddy > for fast disk cloning backups. If I go with a Vista based machine I > think I want to be able to upgrade to Windows 7 or go back to XP Pro. My > question. For home use as described above and recognizing that there are > many options outside of the Lenovo/IBM world could anyone give some > advice between finding a T-4x refurb a T-6x refurb or a new model by > number as a replacement. I would greatly appreciate your help. I don't > want to get into a situation with proprietary hard drives, etc.Thanks, TT >
Hi Anthony, I think it would be hard to go far wrong with either of the series you mention, or the current T400 series. They will all meet the requirements you stated. (At least I'm not aware of issues that would prevent T4x running Win 7...?) It might be a good idea to favor models that use SATA hard drives. Almost all SSDs and most new hard drives are SATA rather than PATA. So you'd keep your upgrade/repair options open. That would eliminate T40-T42. T43 has a reputation for running hot, so I might avoid that one too. So requiring SATA hard drive would eliminate T4x series. T60 and T61 have SATA limited to 1.5 Gbps. That's not a problem unless you're using an SSD and are obsessed by peak transfer rates. Screens: T60 is available in 4:3 screen format, if you care. So is 14" T61. 15" T61 and current T400 are 16:10 only. T60p was last T series to use IPS screen for wide viewing angles. New T400 High Nit screen has very good viewing angles compared to most. T60 through T400 use the same docks. (But T400s uses different docks. And 1.8" hard drive, so that's probably not for you.) That's about all that comes to mind. Much more is at: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Hardware_Specifications http://www.notebookreview.com/ Best regards, Frank ----- *** ThinkPad lovers! *** Please take this survey about which features are important to you in a business-class notebook: http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=IONKF_a68057ef Lenovo is watching the results, this is an opportunity for you to influence the design of future ThinkPads. 428 surveys returned as of July 15: http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=Special_Interest_General&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=4944#M4944 We need yours! Please take a couple of minutes to fill out a survey today. Thanks for your time! :-) _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
