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    A venerable T40

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by pshifrin, Feb 7, 2011.

  1. pshifrin

    pshifrin Notebook Guru

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    An employee moving away recently turned in a T40 issued to him almost 8 years ago that sat in a living room and was only used to check email once a night. It was in near perfect condition including the battery. It was a PM 1.3 512mb ram, 40gb hdd.

    Another employee recently turned in a completely busted up T60 that he really mistreated. To "punish" him and because the boss didn't want to pay for a new laptop, I gave him the T40 which should be much slower. I upgraded the ram to 2gb and HDD to WD blue 160gb.

    Pretty amazing after 8 years it will continue to be quite useful. Windows 7 was just too slow and there are no win7 video drivers for the radeon 7500 so I went with a clean XP install. It runs fine and its quite capable of handling any and all office / web browsing tasks.
     
    pshifrin, Feb 7, 2011
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  2. Kaso

    Kaso Notebook Virtuoso

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    My salute!

    I guess you need to replace the battery as it would age (even with minimal use) after 8 years.
     
    Kaso, Feb 7, 2011
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  3. pshifrin

    pshifrin Notebook Guru

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    The battery reported a few hours remaining when I unplugged it briefly. It probably has very few charge cycles since it sat for 8 years always plugged in.
     
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    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    my T40 is nearly 8 years old now.... whoa i almost forgot how old these machines are.
     
    lead_org, Feb 7, 2011
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