• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 days ago

      I don’t know what you guys are talking about?
      I’ve used an old laptop with Windows 11 (just because I wasn’t supposed to) which had Core 2 Duo T7500 (upgraded from T7100), 4GB of DDR2 RAM, GeForce 8600M GT, but with an SSD rather than HDD. Pretty usable with that thing.

      Unfortunately it broke, but I think it would still be just as good.

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        6 days ago

        Probably the faulty nvidia die substrate issue. I’m amazed it lasted this long, most of those chips died long ago.

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          6 days ago

          Yeah, I’ve seen such stuff on old forums. Unfortunately, a replacement GPU would cost around €50, and that is just not worth it to try obviously.
          The CPU was €1.38 on AliExpress, so that was worth a try, but for the most part it just produced more heat

          Some different GPU would probably work there, but then again, I don’t know if it is a GPU issue. It wouldn’t even show any drive activity when attempting to boot.

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            6 days ago

            I had a t61p that suffered from it. Unfortunately I came to the same conclusion that it wasn’t worth fixing. It’s too bad since that was one of the last really good thinkpads.