[ltp] [Slightly off-topic] About to buy a second-hand ThinkPad X200....

[Steven J. Owens]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:34:55AM -0500, Robert Tomsick wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Christoph Schmees wrote:
> >Am 2012-01-27 23:59, schrieb Paul Seelig:
> >>On 01/27/2012 09:56 PM, Dick Summerfield wrote:
> >>>I can't help but worry about these "infamous T4x issues"
> >>>mentioned by Robert Tomsick...
> >>>What are they???!!!
> >>>
> >>Something for you to read to give you a preliminary idea about why buing
> >>anything earlier than the rollcage protected T60 is a bad idea:
> >>
> >>http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=69469
> >>http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=54856
> >
> >I for one use a very old T40p 2373-G1G and I am still happy with
> >it. [...] I have many customers running T4x machines, and to my
> >experience flexing affects mostly T42 and T43.
>
> In theory the later generation T4x machines (particularly the T43)
> are less susceptible to dying this way due to some workarounds that
> were added to try to reduce the chances of the problem.  IIRC there
> were larger stiffening components in the T43s.

     My t43p must have been one of the improved ones.  I bought it
early 2005, lugged it around in a laptop bacpack for years, and
finally retired it last year - and by retired, I mean gave it to a
friend, who's still lugging it around in a backpack and using it
daily.  I wasn't quite playing street hockey with it, but it had its
fair share of abuse.  I upgraded to the t520, but kind of miss my
ol' t43p.

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