Re: FS: CHANGED IBM (Lenovo) Thinkpad X40 NEAR-NEW PRISTINE CONDITION (+ no bad pixels) ULTRAPORTABLE, UPGRADED, all docs, X-series $299.95

On Feb 23, 9:13 am, Charlie Hoffpauir <inva...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:58:13 -0800 (PST), Don <w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I looked at the item on the eBay link, and I was personally tempted,
as an X40 would meet my needs from a "road warrior" point-of-view. I
have no doubt that you've taken excellent care of the ThinkPad. But,
the big gotcha is the hard drive in the X40 series. It's a 1.8 inch
drive, as compared to the now standard 2.5 inch hard drive used in
laptops. If the IBM 1.8 inch TravelStar drive dies, you end up with a
beautiful, but unusable, X40. Of course, you could always use it with
an external USB drive, but then that defeats the design purpose and
extreme portability of an X40.

Are you saying that these 1.8 inch drives are not replacable? They are
certainly becoming more common, a Sony digital camcorder I bought late
last year has one in it, as do many devices it seems.

--
Charlie Hoffpauirhttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Charlie,

Yes, they are replaceable, but at a price. I did a search for 1.8
inch drives, and the cost was simply too prohibitive compared to a
"standard" 2.5 inch laptop drive. Many of the new 1.8 inch drives are
solid-state memory drives, and they too are quite costly.

.

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