Has anyone tried removing the internal wifi card and using a common PCMCIA wifi card instead?

And if so... did it remedy the problem (no wifi, no Verizon cards under the right wrist pad)?

The average MB-per-second transfer rate of the 5400rpm dirve was 34MB. The 7200rpm drive increased that by a third to 45MB. I got the same results whether the drives were in the Media Bay or the internal bay. Finally! Someone actually tested the HD in the Media Bay. Glad to hear there's no percepti...

Wally, Yeah, that's it. In my own experience, I took the 5400 RPM Travelstar (ATA, not the newer SATA drives) in my Dell Latitude D600and moved it to the CD-ROM "Media Bay" with an HD caddy from eBay. I bench marked the same HD in the normal location vs. the "Media Bay" slot using HD Tune (link) . I...

Wally,

Can you tell if there is a performance hit by installing a HD in the Ultrabay (vs. in the normal spot under the right palm rest)?

smvp6459,

Are you able to measure the palm rest surface temperatures (not internal) with an non-contact thermometer while using this A/B/G tweak?

When I first bought a T60, I also noticed HD noise as well. It was a gentle, constant "whooshing" sound on all the time. I had Lenovo send me a replacement drive of a different brand. No luck. Still whoosh-y. At the same time, I installed a new Hitachi Travelstar 5K-series. Fujitsu (originally shipp...

Along those lines: Would an HD in the Ultrabay HDD adapter be the same or slower than the main HD in a T60?

CatSailor wrote:I have an IR thermometer at home. Tonight I will measure the temp under different conditions. My right wrist pad does get a little warm, but noting that concerns me.
-Jason

CatSailor/Jason:

Did you ever measure your palm rest temps?

Has anyone measured the surface temperature of the right palm rest using one of those non-contact thermometers?

Couldn't you just hit one of the F-keys at bootup to select a drive? Of course, this is assuming you've set the Ultrabay HD in BIOS in the boot sequence (internal HD, ultrabay HD, floppy, whatever.) And if you could boot off the Ultrabay HD: Is there a speed penalty if running off the Ultrabay HD, a...

RonS wrote: No, they don't. A PATA drive mounted in the Thinkpad's slim bay gets about 40MB/sec...

Is that the "Ultrabay", and is 40 MB/sec average, or peak?

I don't even own a Thinkpad (yet) but I had to vouch for SF Bags' quality and customer service.

Top notch stuff. Seriously.

I read somewhere the bus speed (?) for hard drives inserted into the Ultrabay adapter isn't quite the same as the main SATA one.

True?

So, a SATA drive in the Ultrabay is "slower" than an identical SATA drive in the main bay? Or is the difference negligible?

Is there a difference in bus speed if you install the same HD from under the palm rest over to the Ultrabay?

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I am a bit confused with all this talk about the wireless card creating heat issues. The hard drive is directly under the plam rest which is creating the heat issue so why is it that everyone keeps talking about other items creating the problem? I can't imagine this ever being fixed unless they sim...

Thanks again, CyberDude.

Here's to hoping someone can take a reading on a palm rest, plugged & unplugged.

I need to lend someone my IR thermometer... or someone needs to lend me their X60s for.. uh, research!

CyberDude wrote: The palm rest did get quite warm but I had no way of measuring it. I would guestimate it being around 35C-38C.

Thanks, CyberDude.

Is your guesstimate based on the plugged in or unplugged?

Are you other X60s owners getting about the same palm rest surface temps?

Been considering an X60s.

Has anyone measured the actual palmrest SURFACE temperature with an IR thermometer? I'd like to know.

First I noticed the status on-line had changed to shipped. Then I got an email later.

Update:

T60 2613EAU
Ordered: 6/19/06 (Monday)
Est. Ship Date: 7/7/06 (Friday)

Shipped on: 06/30/2006 (Friday)
Arrived: 7/5/06 (Wednesday)

(Tuesday 7/4/06 was a holiday).

T60 2613EAU Ordered: 6/19/06 (Monday) Est. Ship Date: 7/7/06 (Friday) interesting... Update: Just saw this today... Status: Shipped on 06/30/2006 It also says tracking info not available till tomorrow morning. But if it really ships today (6/30) then this beats the original estimated ship date by o...

T60 2613EAU
Ordered: 6/19/06 (Monday)
Est. Ship Date: 7/7/06 (Friday)

interesting...