Hello, No problems noted with the battery after a few months of use.
I do not think that SATA to PATA adapter would work inside of a ThinkPad since it looks like it would raise or lower the height of the installed hard disk drive by a half-inch or so. At the very least, you would likely end up have to cut a hole in your palm rest (or the drive cage, if it goes the other direction) in order to fit a SATA drive into the ThinkPad. My T43p came with an IBM 802.11a/b/g MiniPCI card, limited to 45Mbp/s connections. The Broadcom card is an 802.11n card, and capable of up to 300Mbp/s in speed. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 04:43 AM 10/12/2012, Timothy Murphy wrote:
On Friday, October 12, 2012 03:46:17 AM Aryeh Goretsky wrote: > I just wanted to report that I have taken what are probably the final > modifications to my ThinkPad T43p (MT: 2668-H7U; Specs: P M 770, 15 > UXGA(1600x1200) 128MB ATI FireGL V3200, IBM 802.11a/b/g). As the owner of two semi-retired T43's, I was very interested in your posting. > Previously, the T43p had been upgraded to 2GB of RAM and I replaced > the 60GB HDD with a 100GB model (both Hitachi models to avoid the > 2010 error on boot up). I had also replaced the extended battery > with one from DealExtreme. And is the battery OK? I've had mixed experiences with "foreign" batteries. ... > Upgrade #1: T43p SATA Mod > > This had been discussed on the ThinkPads.Com forum, and replaces > the PATA connector with a SATA and connects it appropriately to > bypass the internal SATA to PATA bridge. A service is now available > to perform the modification, which I took advantage of, as I would > probably not be able to perform this modification myself. Cost was > about $125, which I found to be very reasonable, given the complexity > of the work, and all was done in a prompt and professional manner I've seen, but never tried, much cheaper SATA to PATA laptop adaptors on eBay,eg item #150895127805 for $5 or so. Are they unlikely to work properly? ... > Upgrade #3: Broadcom BCM43222 802.11n MiniPCI Adapter Doesn't the T43 usually come with WiFi installed? (Mine do.) Incidentally, I've been very happy with Thinkpads I've bought from <http://www.itsco.de/>, a German company that gives very honest descriptions of their 2nd hand machines. (I have no connection with this firm.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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