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The modern ThinkPads are a lot harder to take apart, even though they superficially look very similar. The T42/43 was a tank. I saw one take such a hard fall t
by eli 10y ago
The modern ThinkPads are a lot harder to take apart, even though they superficially look very similar.
The T42/43 was a tank. I saw one take such a hard fall that the frame bent and it still booted up.
- i336_ 10y agoI unfortunately dropped a T60 some time ago, on the right rear corner. The system board and everything were all fine... but the LCD copped it :( only displayed sad rainbows (IIRC). I'm not sure if I bent the heatsink slightly off as well; I tried to fix it but I may have made it worse. The thermal design on the T60 is a disaster: the part of the heatpipe that extends over the GPU has nowhere to bolt it down (see http://i.imgur.com/lUOwImO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/lUOwImO.jpg - the rightmost part, see how there are no screws, it literally was not factored into the design, it's held down solely by the copper itself) and because my heatsink is fractionally misaligned, my GPU consistently idles at 75°C (!) and can reach 90°C (!!) if I actually try to do anything!
- floatboth 10y agoThe X240 (and probably X250/260, no way they changed much) is pretty easy to take apart. Just a few screws and there's just one board, with easy access to disk, RAM and mini-PCIe. I haven't seen the old ThinkPads in person, but I have seen e.g. big-ass HP Pavilions that look like a nightmare to disassemble.