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Ultimate hackers laptop would be one without a wide-screen! Bring back the 4:3 displays that we had in the old day please. These were good for reading and editing text/code. You can't buy any decent laptop without a wide-screen, so you will have no competition in this area.

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> You can't buy any decent laptop without a wide-screen

You can - just not a new one. There's plenty that can still be done with a T60p with a C2D and 3 GB of RAM.

Yes. For starters, you can put in a T61 motherboard (14" 4:3 model only, and avoid Nvidia GPUs - they're all defective) and 8GB of RAM. Minor alterations to the frame are required.

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