Best / fav. way to torture test and burn-in brand new T60?

Hi All,

I'm getting a new 2623-D3U T60 delivered today. I want to do a great job testing out and burning in my new laptop.

What's the best (or your favorite) software/method/way to torture test and burn-in a new laptop?

And any other "here's how to do it/set it up right from the start" advice or words of wisdom are very much appreciated!!

Thank you very much!!

Louis

 

Drain and recharge the battery afew times is all I personally do. Great machine by the way.

 

Look in the threads for thinning out some of the ThinkVantage utilities and other preinstalled software. It can really make your machine seem a lot faster. As a personal computer, as opposed to a company IT supported system, there's stuff there that most personal users just don't need.

As for breaking it in....Half Life 2 is a great way to exercise it. GPU intensive games drain the battery pretty quick.

 

You can run Orthos to stress the CPU for a few hours and Windows Memtest to check your system memory for errors from within Windows.

 

Your t60 will ship with PC Doctor... not a torture test but it does systematically run a test on the various hardware components. And if pc doctor reports anything, lenovo will make it right quickly

 

Thanks, Everyone! More replies still welcome and desired, of course...

Well, I'm posting from my brand new 2623-D3U T60. I haven't booted up Windows while having an Internet connection yet. And I will not do so until I make recovery disks, ghost the hard drive, etc. I made sure the BIOS boot order was set to boot from the CD/DVD before the hard drive (it was); then I booted up with a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Linux Live-CD. That's what I'm using right now to post with.

This machine is SO nice....and I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad I decided to get this SXGA+ Flexview screen. Hey, forget the price difference. It's worth every penny and more, more, more. Thank you Lenovo!! Finally! A great screen for working with text all day that will be so much easier on the eyes. I'm SO glad I didn't choose a non Flexview model. Yay!!

It's nice, bright, has gorgeous color renderering and -- the best part!! -- I can read the smaller SXGA+ text just fine. Font sizes that are difficult to read on the HP business class laptop with a 180 nit 14" SXGA+ LCD I have at work are no problem or strain at all on this 200 nit 15" SXGA+ Flexview screen.

I don't know how much of the improvement is due to a larger LCD and how much is due to the IPS Flexview screen. But it's SO nice not to have to manually increase the font size in every browser tab I open on some sites. And keep in mind this is from someone who is 43, wears glasses due to being very myopic and is used to 14 and 15 inch XGA laptop LCDs.

BTW, a Lenovo rep (not the one I bought this T60 from) told me they are coming out with a 14" Flexview in their October refresh later this month. They said they read some internal company communication about it. They didn't say what resolution or form factor Flexview would be offered at 14". But did mention they wouldn't likely ship till some time in November. Since I won't really need a 64 bit Core 2 Duo laptop any time soon, I figured this 2.0 GHz, 32 bit Core Duo would be just fine. And it is!

Thank you Lenovo!! And thank you all here for being so helpful and kind!!

 

So there will be 14'' flexview screen out next month? Man, that's really great news, C2D+14'' flexview would be awesome. 15'' screen always seems to be a little bit too big to my taste. Thx for the info!!!

 

slap alll thinkpads with flexview and all will be happy (except, maybe, for the next tablet series. i don't want to jot notes on a nice screen)

 

X60 with flexview...whoa

 

Thanks stlouislouis for information! I'm very glad to hear you are enjoying you notebook and you've made a wise decision of making recovery dics first thing.

Enjoy your notebook and take good care of it!

Matt