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Yeah, me too. Too much effort because if you want to clean correctly you have to open the whole thing and maybe even change the thermal paste.

sure, but then it might keep working for a few more years.

Well, I guess you just want a reason to buy an old thinkpad... that is ok.

I used to be afraid of changing thermal paste until I finally tried it. It wasn't that difficult. It made a huge difference on one machine and not much on another.

^ Ironically, same here. It worked on my Acer, it didn't change a thing on the ThinkPad.

I used copper antizeise on a few. Anything is better than dried old gunk.

a lot easier to change the paste on ATX mobos, than on a laptop.
I had an old athlon HP and the thermal paste was just black dust, much better once it got changed over.
I feel the thermal paste is going on my Acer lappy. randomly spins the fans - although I say random, it's really whenever I do anything and the load jumps to 2.0 :)

The fans on this machine, an old dell m90, used to spin up and stay on.
It would scream, and if you know someone with hair, they could have used it as a hair dryer.
New paste... nope... no change.
Turns out it was the graphics card.
So, I had to take that apart, clean it up, and add new paste.
Nice and quiet now.

The thing is not worth anything, measured in money, but it works well, so why not fix the little stuff, and keep using it?

windows: just about see the work machine NUC under some postit notes on the right there. :)
old apple mac file/print, music, print, torrent whatever server.

Edit: Root passwords are not on the postit notes. just checked...

hotdesk update: much better than before

nice ... phone takes up half the desk

^ True and I see Sennheiser phones.

I couldn't work with all those windows - glare is real and the evil day star is my sworn enemy.

I'm happy this thread got necro'd -- I'll post my stuff in 12 hours or less, have been meaning to for almost two years now! Sadly, still using all the same hardware.

Love the Most Awesome Dad sticker.

dkeg wrote:nice ... phone takes up half the desk

imma bizzness man! that is the standard cisco IP phone.

yeah all my shit there, harmon-kardon old sound sticks - nothing else very special.
it was my b-day, which seems to have coalesced into Fathers day over here :)

PS yes Glare is a problem, why I have a light scheme, never thought I would.
Although glare not all that bad, I live in the UK remember :)

Finally a member of the thinkpad crew!
Funny how the 'retro' site doesn't really work on a retro machine :)

^ Is that X31/40? the clit still looks pretty good. :)

^ 380XD XD
p2 96Mb Ram running tinycore, quite nicely, as long as don't run into swap too much.

Nice stuff Wux. By the way I have seen and old leveno R500 do you think it is worthwhile buying it from a second hand computer refuse store?

Some info on your iron:
http://www.cnet.com/products/ibm-thinkp ... hdd/specs/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW2n02fHTaY

Batteries has come a long way since then...