IBM ThinkPad T42P Laptop (2.00 GHz Pentium M (Centrino), 1 GB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive) 2373KTU

by IBM

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002Q91JI
• Item model number: 2373KTU
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 23, 2004

Product Description

IBM ThinkPad T42p Notebook PC - Designed for highly Mobile users, IBM ThinkPad T Series notebooks are the perfect balance of performance and portability. ThinkPad T Series notebooks deliver outstanding performance, full functionality and long Battery life in an easily portable, thin-and-light design. ThinkPad T42p mobile workstations also offer high-performance graphics for displaying detailed designs, dramatic demos and high-powered presentations in the office, on the road and everywhere in between. Display - 14.1 TFT Active matrix - up to 1400x1050 resolution Graphics Controller - ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2 - 128 MB Up to 56K BPS Data / Internet / Fax Modem Networking - Network Adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b Wireless Input Device - Integrated Keyboard, TrackPoint, UltraNav / Built-in Devices - Stereo speakers, wireless LAN antenna, ThinkLight, Bluetooth antenna Power - AC 110/230 V ( 50/60 Hz ) - with USA plug Battery - Lithium ion Operating system - Microsoft Windows XP Professional pre-installed IBM 3-Year Warranty Unit Size (WxDxH) - 12.2 in x 10 in x 1 in / Weight - 5 lbs Slots total (free) and type - PC Card Ports - Headphone/Line out / External Microphone / External Display / AC Adapter Expansion Bus port (for Optional Dock II/Mini Dock or Port Replicator II) / Infrared / Parallel / RJ-11 / RJ-45 / S-Video out / 2 USB 2.0

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars T42.., August 9, 2007

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David - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM ThinkPad T42P Laptop (2.00 GHz Pentium M (Centrino), 1 GB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive) 2373KTU (Personal Computers)

Probably the most reliable of all the Thinkpads, well at least in recent memory. Avoid the thinkpads with the Radeon 7500 chip as it has a tendency to overheat and desolder itself from the motherboard, causing erronious errors such as color stripes, corruption and the like. Avoid the T43 as it has problems, T41 known to have some problems, T40 I believe is fairly solid as well. Had my T42 since '04, had no hardware failures of any sort.

4 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Company, Bad Parts, November 4, 2005

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BK (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM ThinkPad T42P Laptop (2.00 GHz Pentium M (Centrino), 1 GB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive) 2373KTU (Personal Computers)

I have owned over 4 laptops now and the IBM thinkpad is by far the cheapest and most unreliable laptop. The computer has been unuseable every 4 months. First the battery. Then the power source. Then the harddrive. And now the motherboard, which by-the-way, has to be sent in to be replaced. It will take approximately 2 weeks to get all that back to me. I suggest a Mac or Toshiba. Their parts are not made in China, Mexico, and Malaysia like IBM-Lenovo's parts. I should have never taken the advice of PC magazine. THey do not rate on reliability.

7 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't get this, go for the new T43s, June 10, 2005

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Andrew Greenhut (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IBM ThinkPad T42P Laptop (2.00 GHz Pentium M (Centrino), 1 GB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive) 2373KTU (Personal Computers)

I don't own a thinkpad, but I'm looking into buying one. Usually Amazon.com has good deals, but this isn't one of them. I love T42s, but you should look at the new T43s. They are even better. I hope this helps.