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Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad

Message-ID <6a38ed77@news.ausics.net> (permalink)
From Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid>
Subject Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad
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Date 2026-06-22 18:08 +1000
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Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> I guess you've probably thought of it, but if you're not using a
>> disc drive or other Ultrabay device, you can fit a second drive
>> there:
>> 
>> https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ultrabay_Slim_SATA_HDD_Adapter
> 
> Ah! I have heard of those, apparently they're pretty hard to find now, 
> along with the battery ultrabay device too. Though, if I ever did find 
> them, I'd be sure to get it!

I thought there were lots of clones for the Ultrabay Slim HDD trays
but I see they're advertised as "Ultrabay SLIM For Lenovo Y410
Y510P Y510PT Z400 Z500" and the Ultrabay page on Thinkwiki notes:

"The IdeaPad Y400/Y500/Y410p/Y510p's Ultrabay is different from the
 Ultrabays used in ThinkPads."

So I guess it's not that easy. Still the original IBM ones will be
out there, I got an Ultraboy Plus one for my R31 on Ebay some years
ago though I had to wait a while for one to appear.

>> Interesting, my Thinkpad R60 with a Core2 CPU also seems to get hot
>> fairly easily. However I don't use it much. Believe it or not I
>> prefer the R31 I'm posting from now, which seems to have much
>> better margins for cooling, as well as other things I prefer.
> 
> Nice! I think I've got an R32 actually, been wanting to get it working 
> for a while but I've yet to get a fresh battery or refurbish the one 
> that I have, they're quite strange batteries.

Yeah I made a mess of pulling apart the IBM battery many years
ago, so I bought a couple of third-party ones. But they've both
pretty much worn out now and I'll have to see if they're any easier
to disassemble to replace the cells since I don't think they're
making them anymore now either.

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Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-21 23:32 +0000
  Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2026-06-22 13:05 +1000
    Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-22 06:26 +0000
      Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2026-06-22 18:08 +1000
        Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-22 08:21 +0000
          Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-06-23 09:49 +1000
            Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-24 15:10 +0100
              Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-24 17:54 +0000
              Re: Upgrades for the T60 Thinkpad not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-06-25 09:40 +1000

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