Question Thinkpad Experts help me identify my laptop

[Dezidia]

So in the late 2000's, my grandma worked for IBM. She got me a laptop and the thing was a beast. I want one again I just need help identifying it from deep in my memory.

I will try to describe it and hopefully you guys can help me find out what model it was.

It had to be around 2008-2012 when i was using this thinkpad
Windows XP

The closest thing I have found is the T430. the differences I can make out is that i remember all the keys being square and no gaps between them.
I dont think it had any of the access IBM buttons.

Kinda like a t410 with the keyboard layout but I dont think the power button was inset. I remember it being more like a raised button.

It did not say lenovo on it.

Any help would be much appreicated.

 

[hedwar2011]

So in the late 2000's, my grandma worked for IBM. She got me a laptop and the thing was a beast. I want one again I just need help identifying it from deep in my memory.

I will try to describe it and hopefully you guys can help me find out what model it was.

It had to be around 2008-2012 when i was using this thinkpad
Windows XP

The closest thing I have found is the T430. the differences I can make out is that i remember all the keys being square and no gaps between them.
I dont think it had any of the access IBM buttons.

Kinda like a t410 with the keyboard layout but I dont think the power button was inset. I remember it being more like a raised button.

It did not say lenovo on it.

Any help would be much appreicated.

Do you have any idea what kind of ports it had on it? Screen size?

With what you have given us it could be any number of models in numerous configurations. Lenovo purchased IBM way back in 2003 and that is when they started using the Lenovo name for it's line of PCs so I would guess it pre-dated that timeframe if it was still called IBM.

 

[Eximo]

That era of laptop would either have been late Core 2 Duo or the 1st-3rd gen Core series if I recall. T400-T430, can't quite recall if the T440 was 4th gen or not. Nothing really to write home about.

Did it have a GPU? The majority of the T4xx laptops would not have shipped with one, that would narrow it down a lot.

 

[Dezidia]

Do you have any idea what kind of ports it had on it? Screen size?

With what you have given us it could be any number of models in numerous configurations. Lenovo purchased IBM way back in 2003 and that is when they started using the Lenovo name for it's line of PCs so I would guess it pre-dated that timeframe if it was still called IBM.

the screen was more of a widescreen rather than a box. The battery was flush and did not stick out at all.

Another reference i can give you is the z60t, this one remind me of it a lot but it did not have a fingerprint scanner.

I was around 10 years old at this time so it is a deep memory.

 

[Dezidia]

I do feel like the buttons for clicking had a red accent on them too

 

[Eximo]

Lenovo Y series then?

Y410p is an older model I have laying around. It has red lined keys, flush battery and a GPU.

 

[Dezidia]

Lenovo Y series then?

Y410p is an older model I have laying around. It has red lined keys, flush battery and a GPU.

no just the lmb and rmb had the little red line on them, i think,
not the keyboard

 

[Dezidia]

Ok i think it might be an R60, what are the other variations of this that dont have the grey keys

 

[randyh121]

That is the T60 and T60p you are thinking of by the sounds of it

 

[Dezidia]

That is the T60 and T60p you are thinking of by the sounds of it

Yes I think that is it, that’s like 99% replica of what i remember. The only thing different is I don’t remember it having a fingerprint scanner. Is there one that looks exactly like that minus the scanner?

If not maybe mine just didn’t work or something so that’s why I don’t remember it.

 

[lvt]

the screen was more of a widescreen rather than a box. The battery was flush and did not stick out at all.

Standard batteries that come with new laptops are usually flush with the laptop's body, only high-capacity batteries stick out because they have more cells, for example 9 cells instead of 6 cells.

 

[randyh121]

Yes I think that is it, that’s like 99% replica of what i remember. The only thing different is I don’t remember it having a fingerprint scanner. Is there one that looks exactly like that minus the scanner?

If not maybe mine just didn’t work or something so that’s why I don’t remember it.

Some of the T42 models did not come with a fingerprint scanner