The x40 was truly ahead of it's time! Strange that they used a sata-ide bridge on the 40 series. I love the camera work and the teardown and refresh, great vid.
Just purchased an x40 + docking station cheap will be following your upgrade tips. Owning a few x60/61 the thought of a complete strip for fan and thermal paste renewal holds no horrors for me☺☺ Great videos, there is something about old Thinkpads that's just soo Good.
I just bought an x40 with the dock today for dirt cheap along with a brand new old stock T42 also dirt cheap. The x40 was in almost new condition, I believe it was set up to be used by the local county government but wasn't handed out or was replaced soon after being issued. It had a Novell networking login but no user on it just the admin account. Fun machines so no I have an A22m running windows 98 instead of win 2k, t40, t42, and x40 with the later three running xp.
I have 10 different thinkpads including T430, X220, T410 and olders.. However X41 is still my favourite and go to machine. it has a class of his own. I wish its speaker was firing upwards instead of downwards cause my belly mutes it :)
I actually got my hands on one of these around 6 months ago, but there were no guides to help me upgrade it. Even though I already upgraded several parts, glad to see this in my recommended feed anyway. I bought a cheap PATA SSD instead of that adapter, which probably wasn't the best idea. BIOS battery died so every time I cold boot I have to change the time in the BIOS and restart, though.
That was a nice video, thank you for posting it. I really like the ThinkPads. They're the benchmark, in my opinion. :-) I'm disappointed that you didn't do a full strip and replace the thermal material with something more modern like Thermal Grizzly Hydronaught or Kryonaught. I would've liked seeing that fan also stripped and cleaned, but that's just me being TOTALLY pedantic about it. Thank you!! :-)
Hello, Nice review. I haven't been a fan of those machines, till I got one two weeks ago (well, an X41, not a X40). I already have various X31 and it's amazing to see how small these machines are compared to the others. It's pretty rare nowadays and the prices are skyrocketting. Fortunately, I got mine for 30 bucks, because the backlight of the screen is dead. I have ordered a new screen and I'll receive it soon. I also had an mSATA drive and an adapter, but the adapter is not… adapted. Because it's for 2.5" ports and not 1.8". The form factor is the same, but the voltage isn't. You must be careful to have a 1.8" adapter, which can run with 3.3V voltage (2.5" ones requires 5V). So, another order is on the go for the right adapter. And I will probably buy a new generic battery. In august, I bought a W520 (a wonderful machine), it's enjoyable to see the two side by side. The huge W520, and the tiny X41! I'd like to use the W520 daily as my machine outdoors, but it's really too heavy. The X41 isn't very powerful compared to the W520 but it will be a perfect laptop to go around. :) W.
Yes you need that special 3,3V adapter. The X41 is a bit better because it does have driver support for the GPU for Win7 whereas the X40 uses a generic video driver.
@@panoramacircle3281 Thanks for your answer. I'll give it a try with Windows 7 but I'll most likely use that laptop with a linux distro (I hesitate, Debian, Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, MX Linux ?) or BSD (I think OpenBSD could be nice - I'm more of a FreeBSD on other laptops). We'll see ! :) W.
Did you format the new hd to fat32 for Windows and ext4 for Lubuntu? I ask because I had some difficulty (actually failure) trying this with a few other old Thinkpads. I'd like to see some step-bystep instructions as I seem not to be able to swap out the old IDE for m2. Oh, and thanks for the cool videos!
The X40 runs Win7 so we have NTFS but the file format should be no problem. Delete all partitions and create new ones during install. If it doesn't work I believe you have an incompatible adapter or maybe the msata ssd is not back-compatible or something.
Hi, I have a 2004 model IBM R51. RAM now 2 GB. Can i upgrade to SSD. If yes, will i need something of this type- Buyyart New mSATA SSD to 44 Pin IDE Converter Adapter as 2.5 Inch IDE HDD 5 Volt for Laptop. This is the only one available in India on Amazon. Please help. Thanks
I got it with the dock included (and the disc drive). They will pop up on ebay from time to time. OS/2 seems to have no drivers officially. I believe the T23 was the last officially supported OS/2 ThinkPad. thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad-Drivers/download.lenovo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/X40.html
@@LIVEMETRIX187 You could try lock picking but the tools can be expensive. I assume the base is not worth much money? You might have to destroy the lock mechanism if nothing else works.
I recently upgraded It to Windows 7. The one i got is the higher end model, so the fastest It can get. It runs pretty good. i have the tablet variant so It's even Better since tablet PC features are Better in Windows 7 than XP. I use ZSNES to play some SNES games and GBA games. I also play ClassiCube, which Is Minecraft version 0.30 but with server support and bug fixes. Can keep the frame rate at 60 with no problems.
Heute habe ich ein Schotthandel entdeckt wo sehr viele IBM Maschinen liegen X30,X40, T500, R500,T61 und T42p ähnliches alles optisch noch top. Und viele mehr der will pro gerät 15 Euro 😣😮 😢 habe mir 3... T61 und ein X30 mit genommen.
