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The T42 was a really solid pre-Lenovo ThinkPad that had significant mindshare among tech nerds when I arrived at MIT. It was my machine in college and the keyb
by jurassic 13y ago
The T42 was a really solid pre-Lenovo ThinkPad that had significant mindshare among tech nerds when I arrived at MIT. It was my machine in college and the keyboard was amazing. I'd probably still be using it if one of the fans hadn't died around year 4. Pretty as Macs are, and awesome as the glass touchpad is, I still miss that ThinkPad keyboard.
- DougWebb 13y agoLenovo made the T42 too, they were just the silent manufacturer at the time with IBM putting on the branding. I'm not sure of the distribution between IBM and Lenovo for the design and QA aspects, but IBM definitely controlled much of that too.
- mindslight 13y agoidk about the T42, but sometime between the T22 and the T60, things definitely went downhill. So between that and anything newer only having a shortscreen, I recently opted to upgrade to a T61 that I should be able to keep going for quite some time.
- light3 13y agoIts pretty silly how it doesn't boot if the fan fails, I turn the fan off because its making weird noises, but the laptop still runs fine, although I try to keep the temperature below 90 degrees C, I think it automatically declocks at higher temperatures anyway. Also you can buy replacement fans on ebay if you have time to tinker.