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Posted at 3:35 PM on Friday 11/13/09 by
Ben
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Surplus Computers has the refurbished IBM ThinkPad T40 1.5GHz 14.1" Notebook for $220 + shipping. Shipping ranges from $20 to $25. [Compare]

  • Intel Mobile Pentium 4 M 1.5GHz, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, ATi x300 64MB
  • Windows XP Professional, 802.11 a/b WiFi, 10/100 LAN, DVD drive
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      ironbadge - Posted 5:28 pm PST 11/14/09 (2556 Posts)  Report Spam

      I think this old machine is still better than those new machines made by the firm that IBM sold this line of product to.

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      blazin1 - Posted 9:39 pm PST 11/14/09 (99 Posts)  Report Spam

      legendary build quality but since tech moves so fast, makes this machine seem prehistoric.

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      hienz - Posted 5:37 am PST 11/15/09 (54 Posts)  Report Spam

      I have one of these and build quality is very poor. The solder in the motherboard has issues with breaking/separating, causing erratic crashes.

      It sounds like it is common. Googling the issue even brings up a YouTube demo on how to heat the motherboard to re-melt the solder (might work, but looks pretty risky).

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