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 | IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T42
ibm thinkpad -- 2010-07-14
with in a couple of days of recieving this item, 3 of they keys fell off. we only kept it because my husband was deploying and we did not have time to return it and wait for another one.
Good Value for Money -" WORTH IT"!! -- 2009-12-03
I wanted a laptop for programming and browsing . I have being doing programming in my office using T30 think pad for past 2 years. I see that IBM thinkpad are sturdy and have excellent quality. There fore i decided to go for a refurbushed laptop( as my budget was low) .
The laptop was in good condition( No Scratch marks). I am very happy with this purchase.
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 | IBM ThinkPad T41 (2379DJU) Laptop (1.60 GHz Pentium M (Centrino), 256 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Combo)
Excellent unit, but suffers minor failures often -- 2009-05-18
(a) Best keyboard ever made for laptops, (b) Decent speed, runs Office 2007 O.k., (c) Acceptable graphics (ATI 7500) or good graphics (ATI 9000 / 9600 / FireGL, the latter 2 can play Far Cry 1.0), (d) Thinklight is very useful on overseas plane flights, (e) fits perfectly on all airplane tray tables, (f) Outstanding battery life with CD-battery + 9-cell (5-6 hrs if you dim the screen), (g) It actually sleeps and wakes up properly unlike 50% of all laptops, and (h) You can just grab it and run to a conference room, yanking it out of the minidock, and it will sleep properly, unlike newer (T60, T400) machines where you have to hit a key first !!
I have used about 4x of these machines at work over the past 6 years. I just got my 4th machine so each machine lasts about 2 years. The typical failure is a really bad/sticky key (1st), a failure of some buttons on the synaptics track pad (2nd), a hard drive failure (3rd), or a failure of the power-port male plug, making it difficult (but not impossible) to charge the unit. With the exception of the hard drive failure, NONE of the failures were catastrophic "I cannot do any work right now" type of failures, so the system is robust.
Excellent laptop -- 2009-01-04
Back in 2004 I did quite a bit of research before settling on a T41 (from newegg.com). I got more RAM for 768M total. Over four years later it is still going very strong.
Great keyboard, light (even today), thin (even today), fairly fast, well-built screen tilting mechanism. Quiet, doesn't heat up too much.
If you're a vi user, you probably won't like the position of the Escape key (you can remap it to F1).
It took about three years for the battery to become unusable (I recently got a new one for about[...]).
The built-in wireless antenna stopped working and I got a new one from Lenovo support (for free, it was still under the 3-year warranty), but the old one fixed itself as soon as the replacement arrived and has been working now for a few years since.
The left 25% of the space bar don't produce a space when pressed --- started happening after around three years.
The left button on the lower mouse controls stopped working --- started happening after four years.
I've been using a Macbook Pro for work, and every time I open the T41 now, it's such a relief to be able to tilt the screen as far back as I want.
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 | IBM Thinkpad T40
something is wrong with this lep -- 2010-09-02
when I turn it at firs time it was hardly warking, I thought it was windows sp3 fault,, and I reinstalled windows sp2 professional, without any useless editions.. I tought it help to operate a bit faster.. first 15-20 minutes it worked fine..than its warking slower and slower.. I haven't install any software or utility , just operating system..
I think it has some physical problem.. I pay 160 usd in nothing.. -10 points
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