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 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.
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 :)
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.
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!! :-)
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 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Agreed! I believe the X41 and T43/p were the only models with the sata-ide bridge.
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 own two X40s. They are good machines and I use one as a daily driver.
Found one of these with the docking station for 18 Euro, really like it. Fits well into my Thinkpad collection
been running 32 bit mx linux very nicely on my thinkpad x32 for a few year now. thanks for the ssd upgrade tip.
Yea these are nice machines, with an ssd better than ever
love your German- English accent
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 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.
You mean the CMOS battery?
kuchi kuchi sugar yes. bios battery.
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 :)
yet another outstanding video!
I'm on the X60/T60 machine timeline at the moment.
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.
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!! :-)
Yes Iw as trying but one screw head got slightly rounded so I couln't remove it so we have to work with that now :D
Man that's a nice thinkpad
Good video man! Tkx
Hi. Could you pick video explaining how fluently x40 play youtube movies on, let's say xubuntu installed on ssd?
Maybe I'll do a video about how well TH-cam works on older ThinkPads soon. I have to do a bit of testing for that.
@@panoramacircle3281 TH-cam plays full HD without a single frame skip with X41. You just need to watch them through vlc. 😉
6:35 in my experience it runs crazy hot actually and quite noisy.
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.
The first ThinkPad ultra portable is the 570, then the x20
The 570 is a bit chunky from the side, not really ultralight and slim. The 240 would be a precursor to the X-s series
How do you find a battery for it today? I bought one in 2015 and it died fast
Hi i have a problem with my x40, i installed windows 7 but i can't find the audio driver, could you help me? Thanks
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
It should work, did you try it?
For the MSATA adapter, need to find one without the voltage regulator?
I believe so, just buy the version advocated for the X40/41
Take note! Lenovo!
Can ram be upgrade to like, 4?
No 2GB is the max here
Do you happen to have thinkpad x40 recovery disks?
Unfortunately no, do you need anything specific?
I'm getting a X41 at 50€
I believe X41 has more modern GPU with Win7 compatible drivers
@@panoramacircle3281 It has a GMA900 so still a XPDM driver
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.
the x31 was more powerful ?
Yes, the x40 was the ultralight version like a macbook air
Song name?
Was the dock hard to find? Will it run OS/2?
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
@@panoramacircle3281 i have a x40 with a dock (x4 ultrabase) but it jad no key! How do I remove the dock?
@@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.
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.
Sehr guter deal insbesondere wenn sie noch funktionieren!
Music name please
Clean Break - Density & Time
yt free audio
@@panoramacircle3281 Thanks
lol u have diablo 2 on it thats the perfect use for it lel gg :D
i had a similar dock for my x30 but it became infested with cockroaches!