Lenovo's forum is a great place to do one's research...and threads regarding nVidia failures on T61/p and R61 are long ones indeed...
If your friend is interested in a sizable machine, I happen to have a R61e with safe Intel X3100 graphics and T7300 Core 2 Duo sitting and doing nothing... Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: STeve Andre' <[email protected]> To: thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Dec 11, 2011 2:07 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Pros and cons of T61 T61. I can't read what I've written. On 12/11/11 14:05, STeve Andre' wrote: > On 12/10/11 17:44, [email protected] wrote: >> Any T61/p with nVidia GPU and build date prior to July of 2008 should >> be avoided, generally speaking. Machines with a later build date are >> fine. >> >> All T61 models with Intel integrated graphics are safe. >> >> Models with Penryn (T8100 through T9300) CPUs are considered more >> desirable than ones with Merom (T7100-7700) CPUS. >> >> HTH. >> >> Cheers, >> >> George >> > Thank you for this. I think I prevented a friend from buying a t7100 > based t60 because of this. > > Please make periodic announcements when you find stuff like this, > or make a web page. ;-) > > It's very useful. > > --STeve Andre' _______________________________________________ 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
