From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.26]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2723216 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:45:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4CE9F56F.9030600@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:45:35 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100916 Lightning/1.0b2 Mnenhy/0.8.3 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] T61 Nvidia Quadro heat issue: how I fixed it References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/21/10 11:15 pm, Andy Willis thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > If I had seen this post less than a week ago, I might not have just > ordered one for my wife. It is a refurbished unit from IBM for about > $400... funny that the cost of the whole is less than even one of the > parts :/ > LOL! My thoughts, exactly. Is the one you ordered a model with the Nvidia chip? I wonder whether during their "refurb" of the system they reflow the solder around the GPU or, for a $400 resale, just trust to luck and chalk whatever returns they get up to warranty expense. Cheers, buddy. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal& Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------