Hello, I purchased a battery for my T43p from DealExtreme. Seems to work okay. Of course, that doesn't mean that a T23 battery would even be from the same manufacturer.
I purchased both the single-core and dual-core X100e models, and ended up giving them to family members in preparation for an X120e. A few observations, things to keep in mind and caveats, all in no particular order: o For my usage, the X100e seemed to handle with about the same performance as a T42. Of course, it costs (and weighs) less than a T42. Plus is still under warranty. o I had the larger six-cell battery and battery life was 2.5-3 hours with the settings and programs I was using. o If you do purchase the X100e (or the newer X120e) consider increasing the RAM up to 4GB or 8GB (8GB was ~$90 or so, the last time I checked from NewEgg). You will, of course, need a 64-bit operating system to take advantage of more than 4GB of RAM. The X100e uses DDR2, and the the X120e uses DDR3. o You may want to consider an SSD as well, as that may help with battery life. It certainly performs a lot faster than a hard disk drive. o No problems using an Asus, Samsung, or Velocity Micro external USB DVD±RW disc drive with the X100e, so I am assuming optical drive compatibility is broad. Not known to be a problem on recent ThinkPads, but I did want to mention. o If you do go with Microsoft Windows 7, you will need to spend some time installing ATI's device drivers for performance and reliability reasons over the older ones provided by Lenovo. Also, the latest version of Adobe Flash (v10.2.x) performs much better than the provided one due to its handling of GPU acceleration. o The keyboard works quite well, with the keys being spaced far apart enough to be usable, just the right amount of pitch, slight concave indentations which guide the fingers to the center of each key, etc. Keyboard layout is what you would expect from a ThinkPad and it has a TrackPoint. Unfortunately, I did not do anything audio-specific enough to have an opinion about sound quality. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 04:41 PM 3/24/2011, you wrote:
Message: 9 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:40:59 -0500 From: Alex Austin <[email protected]> Subject: [Thinkpad] T23 battery To: TP IBM LIST <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello all, I'm considering buying a new battery for my T23 instead of getting an X100e (also up for consideration). For batteries, I've found: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009O5VCE http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MZUJUE http://www.dealextreme.com/p/17683 http://www.batteryrefill.com/laptops/ibm/thinkpad_t20_d.phtml Any recommendations? The reason I'm considering the X100e is because I find I rarely use the optical drive (I have a USB drive if I need it) and the frame on the T23 is starting to break in a few places (near the left hinge behind the optical drive). As it is, the X100e is much more powerful as well, and has a far superior graphics processor (ATI Radeon HD2200 vs S3 SuperSavage IX/C). I think expected battery life will be similar as well. However, sound quality matters as well, including electrical noise in the inputs and outputs, not to mention keyboard quality. Thoughts? Opinions? - Alex -- It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers.
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