[ltp] T60 or T61?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Monday 31 October 2011 16:28:24 Paul Seelig wrote:

> The T61 has a more modern chipset which allows for up to 8GB of RAM
> usage and some very nice CPU options. Unfortunately, there are only
> comparatively mediocre screen options available since this generation.
> Adding insult to injury, all T61(p)'s built before August 2008 with a
> nVIDIA GPU could possibly fail due to a production fault on nVIDIA's
> behalf (bad soldering matrials). One might be lucky, but the so called
> nVIDIA bug is one of the most common defects for these machines, and
> only a mainboard replacement can remedy this. The Intel GPU variants of
> the T61 don't show any issues and run quite nicely, offering much more
> performance than their T60 counterpart.

Thanks very much for the useful info.
(I don't think I'll be constructing my own Thinkpad, as you are;
my DIY skills are not quite up to that!
I've even found it difficult to get my keypad down properly
after adding more memory ...)

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