May I suggest that you check out Marketplace of Bill Morrow's ThinkPad Forum:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=11 Most of the regulars - while U.S. based - have no problem shipping items to UK. Many good deals to be had from trustworthy sellers - and I'm *not* talking about myself. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=97858 http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=99184 Just sold: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=99160 Certainly beats burning 300 quid on a nVidia-based T61. My $0.02 only... Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Martin N <[email protected]> To: thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 3:16 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Maybe a T61 would be better screen height wise? Lo, At 20:10 16/09/2011, you wrote: >On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 19:29 +0100, Martin N wrote: > > >T61/p generation suffers from *very* high > > >failure rate of nVidia graphic cards. If you > > >choose to go with T61, make sure it's got Intel integrated > > graphics... > > > > yes that thought did cross my mind but surely an > > older laptop that still works with a Nvidia gfx card has been > > thoroughly > > tested by now? > >It's quite possible that it simply wasn't subjected to enough >heating/cooling cylces to induce failure. > >Make no mistake about it: the NVIDIA GPUs in the T61s *will* fail. It's >just a question of when. Ok thanks for the response. I will bear it in mind when looking but there are slim pickings already so I might have to get one with Nvidia quadra gfx after all :( Martin N Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups _______________________________________________ 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
