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I used the T60P before upgrading to a W520. The drawback of the T60P is that you're capped at 4GB with a CPU that shows strain if you want to do heavier lifting

I used the T60P before upgrading to a W520. The drawback of the T60P is that you're capped at 4GB with a CPU that shows strain if you want to do heavier lifting, but if you are severely budget constrained then it's a decent choice. I think the price difference between the T60P and T42P is negligible at this point too. If going with the T60P or older, then a good SSD is an absolute requirement, IMO.

i336_ 10y ago
The main problem with the T60 series is that once they decide to start overheating they're apparently impossible to convince otherwise. I have a T60 here with a fractionally misaligned GPU heatsink. If you take a look at the motherboard (http://i.imgur.com/lUOwImO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/lUOwImO.jpg) you can see that the GPU is covered by the lower-right-most portion of the heatsink - and there are literally no screws holding the heatsink down, only the force of the heatpipe. Mine's ever so slightly misaligned... and the system idles at ~72°C and easily gets to 85°C+ as a result :( I've very carefully tried to bend the heatpipe into different positions (it's rather pliable copper and I'm afraid I'll break it) and while the heatsink is pushing down onto the GPU, it isn't pushing down squarely onto the chip perfectly. So the system has hit its thermal limit once. I use my much older T43 with the T60 sadly sitting to my left collecting dust on its keyboard. I'd love to use it, but apparently the thermal issues are unfixable (I asked a friend who's used ThinkPads for way longer than I have, and they promptly noped out.)