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Yes they are worth salvaging. The T4x series make great WinXP/Win9x machines, and the T6x series are valuable in that they are the last Thinkpads to be made without Intel ME.

Bezels or drive caddys?

I really like my T41 (it now has a T42 motherboard). The screen looks great, and I use it with a docking station hosting a PCI audio card. Fantastic retro system.

If I had one complaint, it's the really brittle plastic. It feels like the entire shell will crumble at any moment.

Be aware that the T4x line has problems with failing graphics chips and the southbridge ("Flexing"). In later models, these were glued to the board which makes a reball very hard to do.
T60 and T61 are great machines.

schmatzler wrote on 2023-11-12, 22:19:

Be aware that the T4x line has problems with failing graphics chips and the southbridge ("Flexing"). In later models, these were glued to the board which makes a reball very hard to do.
T60 and T61 are great machines.

Actually, I had great luck reflowing a T43 back in the day ... 😀

And since there's a bulk of them, I don't suspect them being scrapped because of fails, rather a cleanup somewhere?

anne wrote on 2023-11-12, 17:22:

Bezels or drive caddys?

The black part, that is held by the 2 screws furthest away from the IDE connector, closing the hole the disk is mounted in? Not sure if that's called bezel or caddy TBH ...

These can pop out the caddy (optical, floppy etc).

I know these models too. Have T60 and R52.

Cheers,