T61p for gaming?

Hi so I've heard conflicting accounts on the ability of the T61p to run modern games at high or max settings. I'd like to hear from T61p owners how their laptops hold up in gaming. The specs are something like T7500 C2Duo,2Gb Ram, and the 256mb GDDR 3 quadro 570x or whatever I was thinking of the Asus G2s notebook, but if the T61p compares favorably in terms of performance, I might consider it as it's more portable and I love it's style. The biggest draw-back by far is it only comes with a 100gb hard drive. I have trouble maintaining the necessities on my 120gb desktop hard drive heh heh, so I was wondering how external hard drives would be? I don't want to replace the internal hard drive as it's still good (7200rpm), but would an external hard drive be worth it and would it solve the low disk space dilema? are they relatively easy to carry around with the laptop so I always have access to the extra disk space? Thanks for any insight and help you can provide.

 

t61p= g1s or g2s for gaming. Wont be able to get max settings, on newer games coming out but neither can the g2s, but med-high shouldn't be a problem. As for external hard drives you could do that but why not just upgrade to a larger after market hard drive?

 

I don't really know how to change out hard drives, and I'm not sure if doing so would void my precious warranty. Plus, it seems like a waste, that's a 7200rpm hard drive going out the window

 

First of all, swapping a hard drive (especially on a thinkpad) is easy as pie. It's exactly like taking out a PCMCIA card. You take a screw, and then you press a button and the drive pops out of the side of the notebook like a floppy. Then you take it out of the casing, put the new one in and pop it back in again.

Also, why not get the cheapest drive you can, then upgrade yourself so you dont have a 7200rpm drive out the window. Or you can sell it online, you should be able to get a good 80-90 bux for it.

Oh and this doesn't void your system warranty one bit.

 

I only have the 128mb 570m but it runs most games beautifully. If you're willing to sacrifice a bit of AA and HDR you can run games like Team Fortress 2 maxed out at native resolution.

Just make sure to install gaming drivers over the stock Lenovo ones.

 

Thanks for the tip Shoeguyus as for getting a lower spec hard drive, I'm in Canada and Lenevo's Canadian website only offers one T61p configuration and it has the 100gb hard drive I've checked with other Canadian resellers and the T61p's are all the same. Wish I could buy from the states but I refuse to pay duties...stupid duties...