[ltp] Thinkpadd T430U

[Dmitry Mikhailov]

On 03/15/2014 04:06 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My Thinkpad T60 seems to just have been died (let's assume so). Anyway,
> it's 7 years old and I wanted to change some time soon.
>
> I'm looking at T430U. Any recomendations, suggestions, advices,
> warnings?
>
> I need a 14 inches display (it's my main computer). A good keyboard, I
> don't move it in daily basis, it doesn't need to be super portable and
> slim... but I'd like something a bit lighter than my T60 7 years old.
>
> I need a 500 GB hard disk, and I'd prefer a non-wide screen but this
> seems difficult at the moment.
All you can have better than T60 and non-wide is... Frankenpad. Sorry, 
the pages are in German but here's the English translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkwiki.de%2FFrankenpad&act=url


And you can stick there... IPS UXGA 1600x1600 screen with LED backlight!
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ru&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkpad-forum.de%2Fthreads%2F152960-LED-Screenmod-T60-T60p-%28R60-R60e-or-R61%29-aus-den-USA

I'm stuck with this machine since there's nothing comparable yet.

You can have a Core2Duo T9500 (2x2.6GHz 6MB cache) or even Extreme X9000 
(2x2.8GHz 6MB cache, still expensive) and 2x4GB DDR2 SODIMM (expensive).

If you flash the patched BIOS, you can have SATA-II speeds so you can 
stick some decent SSD and have some 750GB 7200RPM classic mechanical HDD 
(in the caddy) instead of optical drive.



-- 
Best regards,
         Dmitry Mikhailov