Just a recommendation for CD/DVD on T41/T42/T43 etc

My experience recently: DONT buy the Mat**bleep**a UJDA series. Mine was UJDA745 and didnt work at all.
Instead buy the GCC-4242N-R4
Just my humble opinion for the Thinkpad users out there. Hope it helps

Good point Keith.
I have no experience of this model but this one from OWC (a company who get very good press on these boards) promises iDVD 5 and 6 support. It's somewhat cheaper than the Lacie in the Apple store but doesn't have Lightscribe.
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T40 T41 T42 T43 ... Got milk?

T40 T41 T42 T43
I'm thinking of buying one of the above but not totally sure which
If you have owned one of these and liked/hated it please tell me why and maybe this will influence my almost immediate decision
Think a t42 with 1gb of ram is a good deal for £179?
Got any better ideas?
sell it to me baby
x
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Fine machines, no questions asked, likely the prettiest ThinkPads ever, at least in my opinion...however:
beware of GPU problems...buy only from a known source, or a unit with manufacturer's warranty remaining...
The only machines not affected by this issue are T43s with Intel integrated graphics, model numbers starting in 187x.
Generally, T43/p are less affected than the rest of the T4x bunch.
Read before you buy:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=33952
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70955
Good luck.
Cheers,
George
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Collecting dust: T60
Enjoying retirement: A31p, T42p,
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mrtotes

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TJNickerson wrote:
So, I guess my ultimate question is, is the extra $250 or $400 really worth it? Would I be able to get by without spending all the extra cash?
The CPU upgrade is only worth it for applications where the CPU is specifically the bottleneck. These days, not many are. The amount of RAM, the GPU, and the speed of storage often play into overall application speed.
You might want to check with upperclassmen in your program, though, because it is possible that some programming environments might benefit from it when compiling or something.
But for most people, $250 for another 0.1 GHz is a bad deal. On the 15-inch it is paying 9% more to boost CPU by just 4%.
If the storage starts at 512MB, that is a lot of space for most people. The $400 is for SSD storage which is expensive (compared to traditional spinning hard disks) so you'd better need it. The two questions to ask yourself are, do you need to carry everything around all the time, or can you keep some on an external drive? Because $400 would buy you a 4TB external drive with money left over. The second question is does that storage need to be SSD fast? If yes, then maybe the upgrade is good. If no, then you'd paying a lot more for much faster storage than you need.
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Oh, and as for screen resolution, I was thinking 15 inch, due to the fact that this will most likely be my primary computer at college. Is that a good call as well?
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- It has to be SILENT & robust !!!
Every new laptop with core 2 duo, and a decent GPU should meet that criteria. Gone are the times of P4 burning holes in the chassis. Of course, there are exceptions, but those laptops are generally running high end GPUs, like the "Asus G1s" do.
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