Worth it to buy a used T60?

I was looking at buying a Lenovo laptop when I came across a few selling on Kijiji for about $100.  I was wondering if it would be worth it to buy one and put an SSD drive in.  Would it be fast enough for things such as surfing, email, youtube and videos?  I'm using an Sony laptop right now with an I5 processor.  How much slower would the T60 feel?  Will I hate it?
thanks,

A T60 will definitely be slower than an i5-based system. However a T60 will definitely still be serviceable as a basic system for surfing, e-mail, watching videos, etc. providing you don't try to do all of that at once. I still use a T60p on occasion as a spare system to test out new software. It's more than fast enough for my needs.
The issues you'll run into with a used T60 relate to upgrades. You'll need at least 2GB of RAM and preferably 3Gb or 4GB. (The architecture of the T60 doesn't allow going over 4GB.) The cost of DDR2 RAM is quite high these days so you may not want to spend the money.
The same thing applies to an SSD. If you have to buy one, especially a 128GB or 256GB model, then the cost may be prohibitive. An SSD will speed up boot times and application start times considerably. It won't do much to speed up surfing and running applications once they've loaded. Unless I had a spare SSD I'd do some serious maintenance and housekeeping on the HDD, e.g. getting rid of unneeded files and apps, defragmenting, etc.
If the T60 currently runs Windows XP I'd look into into Windows 7. If you have a access to a spare copy then the upgrade is no-brainer. If you have to buy a copy of Win7 then it's probably not worth it. (Support for Win XP ends in April so you'll stop getting security-related upgrades.) Linux is another viable option.
Cheers... Dorian Hausman
X1C2, TPT2, T430s, SL500, X61s, T60p, A21p, 770, 760ED... 5160, 5150... S360/30

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