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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/02
I stopped buying ThinkPads when they messed with screen sizes (a long while they did not have anything 16:10 at 1920×1200 or better) and keyboards (no 6-row keyboard for me).
So below is the (at least partial) list of ThinkPads I own(ed) and features they so I can find back information on them in case of need.
Note I had the X201 despite the smaller screen size, as it was an excellent travel companion.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/10
I had a vague recollection of this was possible, so I was glad to find it back after having recovered from all cancer treatments at [Wayback] Use a second laptop as an extended monitor with Windows 10 wireless displays – Scott Hanselman’s Blog.
The feature is called “Miracast” and has a built-in Windows 10 implementation for both sending and receiving not just over WiFi, but also over the local fixed ethernet network: [Wayback] Miracast on existing wireless network or LAN – Surface Hub | Microsoft Docs.
With such support, I’d expected an “it works out of the box” experience. It is far from that, so let me show what I bumped into and how I finally did not get it working.
I tried two machines with Intel processors having built-in graphics engines.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/28
Below are the maximum memory configurations for the Thinkpad models I own.
Note these re only 7-row keyboard configurations, the 6-row keyboards were always “meh”.
I used this command to get the CPU information:
wmic cpu get name
As mentioned in PC3-8500 or PC3-10600:
As PC3-10600 is getting increasingly difficult to acquire, PC3-12800 can be used instead. Using PC3-12800 may or may not increase the performance of your model, as some models may underclock it to their respective original DRAM speeds.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz
[Wayback] Category:T510 – ThinkWiki
You might think it would fit two 8GB modules and be upgradable to 16GB, but the chipset prevents it. Some of the W510 models seem to accept 8GB modules though:
So T510 only supports 8 GB RAM, potentially due to CPU limitation.
The first generation iCore i5 and i7 duo core did not support more than 8 GB of RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
[Wayback] Category:W701 – ThinkWiki 
I actually still have 16GB in my version, see: ThinkPad W701: Win7 Ultimate x64 suddenly only saw 8GB RAM of 16GB (via: [H]ard|Forum).
Searching back my blog history, I did note that 32GB should fit: ThinkPad W701 with 32GB of memory via: forum.thinkpads.com • Newer 8G memory sticks in a W700, W701, W500, W510 ?
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz
[Wayback] Category:X201 – ThinkWiki
Some seem to differ however, and got 16GB to work, but others don’t, as only the lower 8GB are accessible:
I might upgrade the W701, order 4*8GB modules, test some in the X201, then order more if it works.
Just in case I want to ever get a smaller Thinkpad with 7-row keyboard that allows 32-gigabytes of memory, the state as of 2019 is pretty accurate as no 7-row keyboards were manufacturerd after that (not even the horrendously expensive T25, which was a 2017 model [Wayback]/Archive.is] My ThinkPad T25 review : thinkpad):
[Wayback] Current Thinkpad models that support 32 gb ram (even unofficially) – Thinkpads Forum (state in 2019)
If you really want to go the T25 way, you can modify it to put T480 hardware in it: [Wayback] Thinkpad T25 Gets Less Retro With Hardware Swap | Hackaday
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/28
It still seems that WMIC is the quickest way to get CPU information on the console:
T510-PSO C:\bin\rdp> wmic cpu get name,CurrentClockSpeed,MaxClockSpeed CurrentClockSpeed MaxClockSpeed Name 2667 2667 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz T510-PSO C:\bin\rdp> wmic path win32_Processor get Name,NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors Name NumberOfCores NumberOfLogicalProcessors Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz 2 4
Actually, wmic cpu is shorthand for wmic path win32_Processor, so this works fine:
T510-PSO C:\bin\rdp> wmic cpu get name,CurrentClockSpeed,MaxClockSpeed,NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors CurrentClockSpeed MaxClockSpeed Name NumberOfCores NumberOfLogicalProcessors 2667 2667 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz 2 4
The reason is that cpu is an alias:
T510-PSO C:\bin\rdp> wmic alias cpu list brief FriendlyName PWhere Target CPU Where DeviceID='#' Select * from WIN32_PROCESSOR
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/12
For my link archive: [WayBack] Detailed specifications – ThinkPad T510, T510i, W510 – NL
Related:
Vaguely related:
–jeroen
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