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I can relate to this. I needed a laptop quickly and found a factory display piece on eBay. It was an x230. It must have been atleast a year old. I bought it. Th

I can relate to this. I needed a laptop quickly and found a factory display piece on eBay. It was an x230. It must have been atleast a year old. I bought it. That was in 2013 or so. I'm still using it. Upgraded the Ram once. The current problems are a slow fan and a poor battery. I haven't fixed them yet but can probably do so. The thing still works. It's running an old Debian and is my primary machine.

ddingus 3y ago
I have the same machine the author shows in the picture. Agree completely. Also have a really old T60p. Might be close to 15 years old now. It has a bad fan. What I did was put the machine into passive cooling and spin the fan up at boot! Kind of like a jump start. Runs just fine.
- neilv 3y ago
  If you want to make it like-new... The T60* fan is a few-dollar part on eBay (plus you'll need a little ordinary PC CPU heat sink thermal compound, and some tape), it's not too hard to replace, and there's documentation. If you download the Hardware Maintenance Manual (HMM) PDF for that model, IIRC, it'll tell you step-by-step how to replace the fan&heatsink assembly. Follow those instructions, but after you remove the assembly, just remove the thermal compound, pull the fan off, tape the new fan onto the old heatsink assembly, apply thermal compound, and resume following the HMM instructions for putting the 'new' assembly into the laptop. Edit: The latest version of the HMM I could find: https://web.archive.org/web/20210429114642/https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/42t7844_04.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20210429114642/https://download....
  - ddingus 3y ago
    Thanks! I may do this. I still really like the old machine
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stratosmacker 3y ago
Reading this on an X230! Check out a Kingsener battery (8400mAh) I get about 8 hours of mild use. [link](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832160992805.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832160992805.html)
- liendolucas 3y ago
  Thank you so much for that link! Also in the X230 club and my battery died not long ago. Will give that battery a shot. I think the display needs to be changed as well and also unsure if purchase a replacement. Do you have any idea about a good screen replacement?

ddingus 3y ago

I have the same machine the author shows in the picture. Agree completely. Also have a really old T60p. Might be close to 15 years old now. It has a bad fan. What I did was put the machine into passive cooling and spin the fan up at boot! Kind of like a jump start. Runs just fine.

neilv 3y ago
If you want to make it like-new... The T60* fan is a few-dollar part on eBay (plus you'll need a little ordinary PC CPU heat sink thermal compound, and some tape), it's not too hard to replace, and there's documentation. If you download the Hardware Maintenance Manual (HMM) PDF for that model, IIRC, it'll tell you step-by-step how to replace the fan&heatsink assembly. Follow those instructions, but after you remove the assembly, just remove the thermal compound, pull the fan off, tape the new fan onto the old heatsink assembly, apply thermal compound, and resume following the HMM instructions for putting the 'new' assembly into the laptop. Edit: The latest version of the HMM I could find: https://web.archive.org/web/20210429114642/https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/42t7844_04.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20210429114642/https://download....
- ddingus 3y ago
  Thanks! I may do this. I still really like the old machine
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stratosmacker 3y ago

Reading this on an X230! Check out a Kingsener battery (8400mAh) I get about 8 hours of mild use. [link](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832160992805.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832160992805.html)

liendolucas 3y ago
Thank you so much for that link! Also in the X230 club and my battery died not long ago. Will give that battery a shot. I think the display needs to be changed as well and also unsure if purchase a replacement. Do you have any idea about a good screen replacement?