ThinkPad Engineer takes T61 Apart!

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Ever wanted to upgrade stuff in your ThinkPad? Watch a Lenovo Engineer as he takes every current model ThinkPad apart. Then put them back together again! It takes him about 10 minutes to disassemble a ThinkPad T61!

I have just discovered the Lenovo Maintenance and Training Site and was absolutely amazed to watch videos of Lenovo Engineers stripping down and re assembling all of the current ThinkPad model range.

The videos are broken down into segments so whatever you want to do is covered. Want to replace the battery, hard disk drive, memory DIMM or even the backup battery? It’s all there.

How about replacing your ThinkPad T61 Modem Daughter Card, Keyboard Bezel or even the CPU?

These videos go into incredible detail and not only cover all of Lenovo’s current range of ThinkPad models, they also give you the complete breakdown for the Lenovo 3000 range. The archives cover both the ThinkPad 60 and 61 series machines as well as the brand new Lenovo ThinkPad X300.

There is a great intro to the ThinkPad X300 by Ian Frid, the Worldwide Service and Support Curriculum Manager for Lenovo.

All in all a superb resource for the ThinkPad engineer and service technician. Oh how I wish we had this sort of instructional video in the days of the T20! Can’t tell you how many of those we have taken apart and repaired for clients!

This must be Lenovo’s best kept secret.

WARNING! Do not do this at home. Use this wisely and only if you are qualified. Tinkering with your brand new ThinkPad may invalidate the warranty. Don’t go taking your T61 apart and then send it back to Lenovo for re assembly!

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