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They dont make laptop ide drives anymore?

I wanted to get a 100gb 7200rpm but no one sells one anymore.120GB 5400RPM PATA 2.5" Notebook Drive
7200rpm not found
Ive got an IBM Thinkpad X31 and want to get the most out of it. It stays plugged in most of the time.I think we have a 100gb 7200RPM 2.5" HDD in the store. I’ll [...]

ThinkVantage Wifi Tool

Is there a program similar to IBM’s ThinkVantage? I need a wifi tool/software that can locate devices I can connect to. ThinkVantage is capable of telling me each device’s mac address and allows me to choose which device I am going to connect to. Anyone know of a similar wifi tool?I’ve looked [...]

Recommend a new laptop for me. v. help

Got around $1500 to spend towards a new laptop. Can you all recommend something for me? I’m thinking about an xps What do you want to use it for? Desktop replacement/gaming, sager laptops from a vendor like pctorque will be your best bet.
I think the XPS line is overpriced for what you get. [...]

IMB Thinkpad T42 Running Slow

My mom has a T42 that is running really slowly. It takes nearly 4 minutes to boot up, takes a few minutes to connect to the internet, and just runs everything slowly. I’ve done the usual anti-virus scan, spyware scan, registry clean, and defrag routine with hardly any improvement. What else can [...]

Thinkpad memory upgrade?

I’ve got an old Thinkpad T43 type 2686 that I’ve had for years, the thing is a fucking tank and still runs quite well. Thinking of replacing the single 512mb stick of ram with this:
I’ve never replaced laptop RAM before (can’t imagine that its terribly difficult?) and wanted to double check that this is the [...]

Cannot resize my primary partition

This is going to be long I suppose…
I cloned my old HD (30gb) onto a 160gb HD using Acronis True Image 11. There’s a hidden partition on the old HD around 5gb, used for system recovery and what not (IBM). When I went to clone the drive, Acronis originally set the hidden partition on the [...]

What is your experience?

So, based on Deus’s thread I was wondering what everyone’s experience is here when it comes to computers. I think I may have asked this before, but I have a bad memory.
I’ve been in IT about 13 years or so now with about 4 years in PC type support (helpdesk and desktop), around 10 [...]

CPU 100% usage

My DELL Laptop keeps going up to 100% CPU usage. I’m not sure what itis. Seems that when I close IE7, it will go down. However, the problem will come back again later.
Could it be my temps? I installed coretemp and it’s reading 77 and 79 on the cores [...]