[eckyptang]

Spot on.

T61 user here. eBay is a veritable goldmine of bits for T61's. There's not a single bit you can't replace for trivial amounts of money. I've spent about 150GBP on this T61 since I got in a couple of years ago (and that included the purchase price!). All I did was chuck more RAM in it, buy a genuine mains adapter (after the shitty clone one zapped me) and a new key scissor after I bounced the TV remote off it by accident.

I'd also say that the T61 works better with Windows than some of the new machines as well. It has proper hardware and no corner cuts like shitty network interfaces, "odd" graphics devices and b-rate media devices.

Also screw mag-safe - this thing just bounces if the kids trip over the cable (much better engineering IMHO).

[learc83]

Mag safe is the only thing I miss after moving from a macbook pro to a thinkpad.

It really makes me mad that apple was granted a patent when magnetic power adapters were invented by UL in the 90s for deep fryers.

[w1ntermute]

> It really makes me mad that apple was granted a patent

Is that why no one else has implemented this feature?

[eckyptang]

Actually a company I worked for had prior art on that and had working implementations in the field but as it was the defense industry, they aren't that fussed.