[Thinkpad] Re: Thinkpad Digest, Vol 3, Issue 6

[Gilles Richard]

If you want to use your 600e as a desktop with external monitor,
you xould get yourself a docking station (Thinkpad Dock).

They are now very (got one for $30) cheap, and provide convenient plugs 
for screen, sound, mouse and keyboard, MIDI,  etc..., extra USB, PLUS a 
bay where you can put 700 bay CD or HD, PLUS a standard 5 1/2" bay for 
DVD, CD-burner etc.. PLUS 3 standard PCI slots for a better sound card 
or video card or LAN card or... The downside is that they are a bit 
bulky : take as much space as a desktop, and must be used in the desktop 
(as opposed to tower) style.

Beware that the memory of your 600e will likely not be supported on the 
600X (faster front-side bus). On the other hand the 650 MHz processor is 
upgradeable to 800, but NOT the 500 MHz one (the 500 MHz motherboard 
does not support Speed-Step).

As for transferring the OS, quite a lot of drivers are different, that 
you will have to download from the IBM site.

Hope this helps.

Gilles

thinkpad-request at stderr.org a écrit :
Message: 4
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:45:51 -0500
From: "Cottrell, Eric" <ecottrell at doble.com>
Subject: [Thinkpad] Broken LCD
To: <thinkpad at stderr.org>
Message-ID: <6ED95C184239FC419DFE88BA4797376502F72A at mailnt.doble.com>
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Hello,

My 600e tried to escape and tumbled off the table.  Unfortunely the
LCD is all cracked although it still was displaying video.

Looking around it seemed like I could get a like machine (600e 366 MHz)
for about the same money as a new LCD.

I am thinking of getting a 650 MHz 600x and transfering the memory,
DVD/CD-RW, and OS over.  I suppose I could use the 600e with
an external monitor.  Some dealers at the computer show Sunday
usually have Thinkpads.

73 Eric


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