Yeah, all this talk about the "new" Thinkpad got me to thinking about an old one...
I talked about the R40 I got off eBay for next to nothing a goodly while back. It's quite a battle-scarred piece (I particularly like the chunk out of the palm rest that the previous owner simply coated over with black electrician's tape. You actually have to look close to see it.)
It's a PentiumM model (can't remember the speed, and can't check as I have it running a disk check at the moment) with 512 MB of RAM, 40 GB HD, running WinXP. Runs quite nicely, is fairly light for its age, and has that wonderful Thinkpad keyboard. (Hmmm... I forgot to check if the Thinklight still works...)
For whatever reason, I'd always assumed 512 MB was the max this model could take, and that it probably had 2 256 MB modules installed. But, after playing with the Toughbook all evening, I got that wild urge to pull the R40 out and check.
Only one 512 MB module installed. Cool!
OK, the first plan was to just get another 512 MB module, and jack it up to 1 GB. However, a quick jump over to Lenovo's tech specs showed that the PentiumM models can support up to 2 GB. So...
I decided to not replace the module I have, and only get an extra 1 GB to install. 1.5 GB is enough for my needs. (I can hear some people screaming out there, but...)
Just spent a while upgrading my antivirus stuff on the R40, and cleaning off a raft of obsolete Norton and McAfee junk. Now just doing a re-verification on the hard drive, and going do a defrag afterwards.
Yep. Wild and Crazy. I don't know how I stand the excitement........
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