The Story of the IBM Thinkpad T42, Were Thinkpads Perfection? - Tech Retrospective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.พ. 2020
- We review the Thinkpad T42 released in 2004 as well as the entire IBM Thinkpad line. These IBM Thinkpad T42s are great for retro gaming and for modern productivity tasks while offering supreme build quality and a great design.
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I am using T42 everyday. Upgraded RAM to 2 GB. Upgraded OS to Windows 7 Ultimate. Works great
The T40-T42 series are well-known for the BGA solder joints between the ATI GPU and motherboard failing. A combination of being a very thin laptop for the time allowing some flex and the transition to lead-free solder. The T43 moved to DDR2 and SATA, but regrettably the southbridge (if memory is right?) located in a same location has a tendency to break loose.
Thanks for watching! Have you used a thinkpad before? Where?
Love the video and the model! I had T21, T42, T60, X301, Z61, T410 (still have it), T430 (still have it), T440 (still have it), T460P and now X1 Extreme Gen 2 :) Never switched to something else although I had contact with Dell, HP, Apple, etc.
Got myself a T60 running XP with all of my older games, love these machines.
Interesting note, the display on these is way brighter in person than what comes across on camera
NGL, that is a pretty great video!
As a person with pretty good knowledge in the lineup since I'm addicted to thinkpads currently having 25 of them I can tell you made some slip-ups, but still I really liked it
i still use my T-42 for some 2000's games & office 2000
I found one of these left by a bin like 3/4 days ago.. planning on cleaning it up and fixing it if I can.. current plan: fresh thermal paste and full teardown and clean, 2gb ram, new battery, msata ssd (in adaptor) and slap fresh windows XP on it.
That will be quite the machine when it's done!
@@NewsmakersTech now I've just gotta pray it works! Waiting for charger from eBay, fingers crossed!
@@NewsmakersTech ive also just discovered u can use a standard sata hdd or ssd in an adaptor in place of the DVD drive
I have the same T42 and also IBM T61. Cool machines! :)
The T42 came out in 2004 so, as of 2020, it is not yet 'over 20 years old'.
Got my self a T42 that I have somewhat "restored".
Changed the BIOS battery. Downgraded the RAM to 512MB, as Windows 98SE had issues with 1GB (kept freezing).
Installed a DeLock IDE2SD adapter, with a 32GB SD-Card. Works fantastic.
But I can only use it for native Windows 9x games, as anything that requires DOS only works with PC-Speaker. The built-in Crystal Audio something something doesn't support DOS and neither emulates a real Sound Blaster under DOS :(
Besides that, it's an awesome machine.
Also got a T61, which I plan on restoring and probably also use for some games...
Maybe buy an external adlib or covox clone to plug into it for dos sound?
@@NewsmakersTech Adlib on provides FM Synth (Midi) - no digital audio.
While it's ok for some games, it really sucks for other games.
PCMCIA sound cards are rare, and expensive.
I have the highest specced version, How about I cover it on TH-cam since it's rare af
What can I use to replace the windows button I need it so bad but I can’t figure out what button is the one for that one
I still use my T40 every day! Its in perfect condition too.
This line and Lenovo IBM T series are and were the rarest and best laptops ever made period.
That Windows startup noise! So nostalgic!
It's super nostalgic!
I would be interested to see if this machine is truly OS/2 compatible have you thought about doing an install video?
i use to have t40 it died few years ago it was great laptop
T42 serves as my main gaming machine, I enjoy older games a lot, probably even more than contemporary games. It handles most turn of the century titles just fine but for some reason GTA III is bordering on being unplayable. Unless you point your view slightly down, avoiding viewing the whole landscape, it dips down to 10-20 FPS even at 640x480x16 with everything turned down to -1. I know Mobility Radeon 7500 is not the most powerful GPU out there, nor the best suited for gaming, but hey, it's more or less period correct and it's backed up by a CPU well over two times faster than the game recommends so what the hell! In contrast, Mafia game, being more or less similar both in genre, complexity and age, works brilliantly. Did any of you T42 guys experience the same thing with GTA III or is it just me?
I've been using nothing but Thinkpads since the 1990's. Off of the top of my head, I've had an 390E, 600E, T20, T22, A31p (that was the only lemon of the whole bunch), T40, T42, T420, T500, T510, X201, W520, and Carbon X1 3rd gen.
Can you tell I'm a fan? ;)
I use to have a 700Mhz Pentium 3 Thinkpad. Not sure the exact model. I loved it. My brother's cat knocked it on the floor destroying the LCD backlight. It was a bummer.
But how to connect a mouse? None of my usb mousees work in win98 and this notebook does not have a ps2 port...
The T4x machines weren't perfect, the hinges are made of brittle white metal and tend to snap. The threaded brass ferrules in the palm rest also tend to break loose from the plastic molded around them.
What should we run on these beasts?
I have it
im watching this on my t42 running windows 7
802.11b is pronounced 'eight oh two eleven bee'.
I can't understand why people stick with Lenovo nowadays. They took out pretty much all the unique design and features around 2015 before 2019. I have had fan and maintenance problems with both a laptop and desktop. Even more annoying everything in my desktop is proprietary to the system. They're clearly way worser at programming than IBM since I haven't had piece of software from them work perfectly. Overall I wouldn't recommend a Lenovo product ever, buy another Lenovo, and I hope that they soon one day go out of business. They were clearly not the right person to sell to and IBM should've just kept making Thinkpads and Thinkcentres themselves.
Yes, they were.
Bruh my T42 lcd just die 😭
Replace it.
Can this run Need for Speed Heat?
No
Try it out for yourself, but don't be surprised if it goes boom.
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the amount of things wrong with this video is outstanding. I wouldn't pay more than $15 for a T42, they are the most vile pieces of garbage in the entire lineup. Failing LCDs and graphics, hinges, brittle plastics, just to name a few of its problems. You got properly scammed by those ebay sellers.
yep, i got screwed over, i guess avoid like the plague