(I put COMM in the subject line to keep the sad tosser happy and try to 
keep the thread on topic. Happy now?)


Lenovo Thinkpad T61. Excellent mint condition. Has manufacturer onsite 
warranty until 24/10/2010.

Intel Core 2 Duo
2.5GB RAM
512MB nVidia Quadro NVS 140M PCIe x16 graphics.
15.4" screen
80GB HDD
DVD/CDRW
Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G HDSPA modem built in, Gigabit LAN, modem.
Smart card, fingerprint reader, 4 in 1 memory card reader.
XP Pro.
Good battery.

Goes like fook.

£325 to anyone here which is cheaper than they're going for on fleabay. 

At that price there is a downside and its that Vodafone IT muppets 
removed the user BIOS password but not the supervisor one before 
disposal. What that means is you can alter everything except bootup 
order, but its set to boot off the optical drive before the HDD so 
there's no problem installing an OS, and I think you can't disable the 
security features stuff in BIOS such as fingerprint reader (not that 
you'd want to) but there's nowt you can't alter that you'd actually want 
to. Everything else, you can.

Let me know sharpish cos I'll be listing it on ebay near the weekend for 
a Sunday night finish.

And no, its not nicked - I have a receipt from the clearance company 
Voda use should plod be interested.

email: conor@gmx.co.uk 
phone: 07915 088177.


-- 
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't 
looking good either - Scott Adams

> (I put COMM in the subject line to keep the sad tosser happy and try to
> keep the thread on topic.)

Won't work.

City didn't do very well on saturday did they.

Brown OUT.

Conor wrote:
> (I put COMM in the subject line to keep the sad tosser happy and try to 
> keep the thread on topic. Happy now?)
> 
> 
> Lenovo Thinkpad T61. Excellent mint condition. Has manufacturer onsite 
> warranty until 24/10/2010.
> 
> Intel Core 2 Duo
> 2.5GB RAM
> 512MB nVidia Quadro NVS 140M PCIe x16 graphics.
> 15.4" screen
> 80GB HDD
> DVD/CDRW
> Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G HDSPA modem built in, Gigabit LAN, modem.
> Smart card, fingerprint reader, 4 in 1 memory card reader.
> XP Pro.
> Good battery.
> 

What's the native resolution of the screen, please? Used similar specced 
  laptops (and they are excellent) at my former place of work but for 
some reason half of them were 1280*800 and the rest 1920*1080, both of 
which I found a bit useless.

-- 
[ste]

In article , Tiger Tim 
says...
> 
> > (I put COMM in the subject line to keep the sad tosser happy and try to
> > keep the thread on topic.)
> 
> Won't work.
> 
> City didn't do very well on saturday did they.
> 
> Brown OUT. 

I don't live in Hull and I don't really like football so not that 
bothered TBH.

-- 
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't 
looking good either - Scott Adams

In article , [ste parker] says...

> What's the native resolution of the screen, please? Used similar specced 
>   laptops (and they are excellent) at my former place of work but for 
> some reason half of them were 1280*800 and the rest 1920*1080, both of 
> which I found a bit useless.

1280x800 so I guess that comes in the useless category for you?

-- 
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't 
looking good either - Scott Adams

Conor wrote:
> In article , [ste parker] says...
> 
>> What's the native resolution of the screen, please? Used similar specced 
>>   laptops (and they are excellent) at my former place of work but for 
>> some reason half of them were 1280*800 and the rest 1920*1080, both of 
>> which I found a bit useless.
> 
> 1280x800 so I guess that comes in the useless category for you?
> 

Yeah, thanks anyway.  Still a steal at the price, I'd say.

-- 
[ste]

In article , [ste parker] says...

> Yeah, thanks anyway.  Still a steal at the price, I'd say.

Cheaper than Ebay going on the completed listings I've looked at. I 
reckon that's what I'd come out with once Ebay and Paypal have fleeced 
me silly. 

-- 
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't 
looking good either - Scott Adams

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:21:52 +0100, [ste parker] wrote:

> Conor wrote:
>> In article , [ste parker] says...
>> 
>>> What's the native resolution of the screen, please? Used similar
>>> specced
>>>   laptops (and they are excellent) at my former place of work but for
>>> some reason half of them were 1280*800 and the rest 1920*1080, both of
>>> which I found a bit useless.
>> 
>> 1280x800 so I guess that comes in the useless category for you?
>> 
>> 
> Yeah, thanks anyway.  Still a steal at the price, I'd say.

Shame I've just got myself sorted, or I'd be having that. They're a shit-
hot machine, used them at a couple of places I worked in the past.

Mike P

In article , Mike P says...
>
> Shame I've just got myself sorted, or I'd be having that. They're a shit-
> hot machine, used them at a couple of places I worked in the past.
> 
> Mike P

The other good thing about them is that with Lenovo, the warranty 
follows the machine and on ex-blue chip company ones like these, it 
means that Lenovo stuck 3 year onsite next business day on them to get 
the contract and you usually get 12 months of that left when they hit 
the second hand market as this one has.

-- 
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

[ste parker] wrote:
> Conor wrote:
>> In article , [ste parker] says...
>>
>>> What's the native resolution of the screen, please? Used similar 
>>> specced   laptops (and they are excellent) at my former place of work 
>>> but for some reason half of them were 1280*800 and the rest 
>>> 1920*1080, both of which I found a bit useless.
>>
>> 1280x800 so I guess that comes in the useless category for you?
>>
> 
> Yeah, thanks anyway.  Still a steal at the price, I'd say.
> 

Trying to work out why this is useless for you.
Hardly a gaming spec, and laptop's aren't a primary photo editing tool 
so what makes it useless?

In article <PCZwm.408062$bU2.141912@newsfe29.ams2>, DCA says...
> 
> [ste parker] wrote:
> > Conor wrote:
> >> In article , [ste parker] says...
> >>
> >>> What's the native resolution of the screen, please? Used similar 
> >>> specced   laptops (and they are excellent) at my former place of work 
> >>> but for some reason half of them were 1280*800 and the rest 
> >>> 1920*1080, both of which I found a bit useless.
> >>
> >> 1280x800 so I guess that comes in the useless category for you?
> >>
> > 
> > Yeah, thanks anyway.  Still a steal at the price, I'd say.
> > 
> 
> Trying to work out why this is useless for you.
> Hardly a gaming spec, and laptop's aren't a primary photo editing tool 
> so what makes it useless?

Probably the lack of resolution although he said that 1900x1000 or 
whatever wasn't enough either but personally I think that higher than 
that resolution on a 15.4" screen, you'd barely be able to see the 
detail.

-- 
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

Conor wrote:
> In article <PCZwm.408062$bU2.141912@newsfe29.ams2>, DCA says...
>> [ste parker] wrote:
>>> Conor wrote:
>>>> In article , [ste parker] says...
>>>>
>>>>> What's the native resolution of the screen, please? Used similar 
>>>>> specced   laptops (and they are excellent) at my former place of work 
>>>>> but for some reason half of them were 1280*800 and the rest 
>>>>> 1920*1080, both of which I found a bit useless.
>>>> 1280x800 so I guess that comes in the useless category for you?
>>>>
>>> Yeah, thanks anyway.  Still a steal at the price, I'd say.
>>>
>> Trying to work out why this is useless for you.
>> Hardly a gaming spec, and laptop's aren't a primary photo editing tool 
>> so what makes it useless?
> 
> Probably the lack of resolution although he said that 1900x1000 or 
> whatever wasn't enough either but personally I think that higher than 
> that resolution on a 15.4" screen, you'd barely be able to see the 
> detail.
> 

Sorry, I meant that I found 1280*800 not enough but 1920*1080 too much, 
in that I like to run stuff native res on an LCD and the latter is too 
much for the screen size whereas the former feels cramped, to me 
personally (even with all the various resizing of fonts, icons etc. you 
can do).  I'll stop derailing now!

-- 
[ste]

On 1 Oct, 09:19, DCA  wrote:
> [ste parker] wrote:
> > Conor wrote:
> >> In article , [ste parker] says...
>
> >>> What's the native resolution of the screen, please? Used similar
> >>> specced   laptops (and they are excellent) at my former place of work
> >>> but for some reason half of them were 1280*800 and the rest
> >>> 1920*1080, both of which I found a bit useless.
>
> >> 1280x800 so I guess that comes in the useless category for you?
>
> > Yeah, thanks anyway.  Still a steal at the price, I'd say.
>
> Trying to work out why this is useless for you.
> Hardly a gaming spec, and laptop's aren't a primary photo editing tool
> so what makes it useless?

Agreed, i'm running 1280x800 on a Toshiba Equium Dual Core right now.
Looks good to me ;) !

Paul.