On 10/07/2015 07:03 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing,
and the i5 proc will haaang visio forever doing complex edits of
groups of shapes for sometimes 30sec. Windoze is still a pig I think,
maybe the hardware would be ok with linu
Good point!
Actually, it was an extra SSD I had that I was not using. I figured it
might make it a little quicker and I won't have to spend any money on
it.
One of these days I would like to replace that fan.
On 2015-10-07 11:34, Stephen Partington wrote:
> you bought it an SSD instead o
ake a look around in there and see if you
can find that.
Cheers.
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Oh yeah - best part was dual ssd in that e7240 dell laptop for being all
that and like 2lb too. I'm very fond of raid 1 with ssd's. Great
little powerhouse, at least until one with a 4k display comes around.
On 10/07/2015 07:03 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
Before buying my dell, I looked at leno
My current customer threw me a t440 with a dock to use internally.
Decent - light, but sorely underpowered.
I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and
the i5 proc will haaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups
of shapes for sometimes 30sec. Windoze
you bought it an SSD instead of a fan?
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote:
>
>
> I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo
> support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced.
> It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB
I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo
support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly
replaced. It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a
160GB 7200 rpm drive.
The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had
You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot. I just picked up a T420 myself a few
weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box. I did add
8 gigs of ram for a total of 12Gig and installed a 240Gig mSATA SSD that
I installed the system on and that's an addition to the 320 Gig spinning
drive t
Thanks again for all the helpful input in response to my
recent question: "What is your advice to update my system?"
After much research, I finally decided that, for my needs, the best
option was a used T420 Thinkpad. I've had excellent results with IBM
Thinkpads and never had one fail. Now they a
