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    I'm getting a ThinkPad T43 Series (Type 1875)

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Hans Gruber, Sep 18, 2005.

  1. Hans Gruber

    Hans Gruber Notebook Geek

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    After wasting 2 weeks trying to decide which laptop to purchase I have decided on IBM. My brother has a T42. My undersized Dell leather laptop bag purchased on Ebay for $35 will house the T43. Any T43 owners please chime in with your opinions. I will adding 1Gb of memory to the base 256mb. For those of you who have ever attempted adding ram to a laptop, a special olympian could accomplish the task with relative ease.

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    Hans Gruber, Sep 18, 2005
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    Might want to consider T42. Less fan noise and better battery life.
     
    ZaZ, Sep 20, 2005
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    the PCI Express slot is the major external hardware differentiator between the T42 and T43, and also you can get the Pentium M Sonoma platform with the T43 -- it offers about a 10% performance improvement but as zazonz says, it will run warmer. So just depends what you want, better performance or cooler running.
     
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