Newbie here..

Just bought R60 (T5500) less than 2 weeks ago, still tinkering with it. I was debating between Dell 640m and this, but the R60's free 80GB porta-hdd and extra 512mb RAM deal sealed it for me

looks u hv got a good deal (t5500, 1gb ram, 80gb hdd, external 80gb hdd, pc dos), how much u bought?

ezra bought it for rm 3398 and the promotion for this is over oledi...cant get such good offer oledi...... happy buying ezra....

Why IMB mean by built to last? Why they are so popular eventhough it's ol skool design?

Yep, that's the one. I got it from Midvalley, Lowyat's shop had long ran out of stock for the external hdd. Among the last ones available, I was told.

IBM had given in people a professional image, whenever people think bout IBM, people will think bout business + formal looking laptop.. the unique design also gives the engineer to concentrate on the internal electronic design, hence u'll notice IBM normally comes w less heat

business people wants their data to be secured rather than high end spec/ multimedia, hence u'll notice IBM built quality surpasses others laptop, yet their spec is always lower than other brand laptop.. however IBM has the best keyboard, 10 out of 10 people will start to like typing after using it, and becoz of its durability housing, u'll enjoy moving it around, unlike other multimedia laptop, i care less bout it and up till now it's still as tough as i first bought

But it seems that they are moving to multimedia too recently by the name of Leveno. Maybe IBM market have drop tremedously for the pass year.. Anyway, yeah, their quaility and security is one big bonus

IBM market dropped? what do you mean?
Well they are not moving to multimedia marketing, but expanding

haha ...you are wrong....ibm is not dropping but is actually they try to grab as much as asian market because if u realize in the past years Ibm price is very high as most parts is from US and assembled either in korea/ china and repackaging in singapore then into malaysia. IBM thinkpad did renew and enhance their unit and even give new system alike roll cage chassis ( notice that new r60/t60 ram upgrade from below touchpad not from bottom of notebook) future is alike face recognition security system will out soon.

IBM alike ppl say is international business machine.

IBM is smart by selling out their business to LEnovo chinese people because they know that partnering with giant lenovo will confirm they can have better in price of production and hence lower selling price and give opportunity to gain more sales but their main profit comes from after sales service (warranty / hardware services)

Lenovo come new model which is not made by IBM factory but trying to implement some of the features that thinkpad have alike fingerprint security but is without the embedded security subsystem chip, one touch recovery system ( notice the word thinkvantage rescue and recovery when it boot up in lenovo notebooks ).

lenovo is far more cheap with difference around 400-500 even same specs but wat IBM thinkpad gives is superb chassis and quality.

Oh, ic, my mistake then. Hehe..Anyway, Leveno are selling at competetive market now.

Anybody knows where to get this Thinkpad T60 9-Cells Battery?



At Taiwan is selling for about RM485.
http://tw.f2.page.bid.yahoo.com/tw/auction...u=ibm0910270593

Speaking of IBM, didn't they just officially open their Plaza at Bandar Utama? Which part of the building is their Service Center located, btW?

if u wan to get this battery, i think most probably u need to order and it took around 3-8weeks to have the stock. but malaysia selling price is stated 588 but also may vary depends on the cost of the stock.

haha...no mistake bro.... lenovo models is more to multimedia and mostly is come with xp home instead of xp pro if u realize it...happy new year 2007

I know IBM is great and so do their killer gem keyboard Levono, but the design let me down. I hate the red colour rubber thing. Hehe. But nice to use. Anyway, it's for businessman la..haha

i just received my t60 yesterday
after 2 and half years using T40 ..

T40 gave me zero problems at all ...
almost i can say average i turn it on for min 6 hours everyday for the past 30 months but still, no problem ..

superb machine ..
i hope my new t60 can serve me better.

btw ..how much 2nd-hand price for t40 docking system and extended battery.

got my x60 during xmas, actually was looking for macbook but i changed my mind last min, anyway i make my ibm look like mac

but somehow i realize its bit hot underneath unlike previous model x40/x41, wonder if upgrade my bios will help or not...

anyone facing the same problem? btw my laptop come with 8-cell battery, hmm...

Hehehe, that i have to agree... For its reliability and good performance, they have to "spoil" things with that plain and uninspiring design... However, after using this PC for more than a year, i've already got used to that reddot thingy!

Just to ask, how much is a cooling fan? I may want to consider one as i use this laptop everyday and at times, i get worried about the heat the computer generates...

u r using r50e...u might not really need it and maybe yes depends ur model number, as i know, r50e with pentium 4 processor will need as the heatsink is not a copper heatsink and there is still parallel port behind and at which newer models had took out the parallel port n better copper heat sink.

if u wan to get a notebook cooler, u may as well diy like our brother in this lowyat forum.

haha

Sorry for the late revert .
Been using it for the last three years .Bought by company and cost around 7K plus. So far so good but had a heartbreak when the hardisk gone kong .
So far things that was claims under warranty
1. hardisk
2. Cooling fan

Since the warranty gonna expire soon and the only option to upgrade is either DELL or HP .

Any model to recomended ?


This post has been edited by qarin: Dec 29 2006, 06:26 PM