Thinkpad owners please, hardware question?

I just upgraded my ram. I had some trouble putting the thinkpad back together but eventually took care of it. While screwing back the palmrest I noticed something under the cd drive. There was a small button that when you pushed ejected a piece of plastic. I don't know how to describe it, I'm assuming this is part of removing the cd rom all together. I will post pics if no one knows what I'm talking about. Anyone has any idea what it is?

 

If you push that tab in, then pull out, you will remove your optical drive.

 

Is it as easy to install back? What can I replace this with?

 

Yep, very easy to reinstall, simply push the disk back in. You can replace with ultrabay battery or a second hard drive.

 

Er, in my earlier post, what you do to remove the drive is: slide the switch at the rear of the drive, behind the eject button. The plastic tab will pop out. You pull on the tab and the cd rom drive will slide out a little. You then carefully pull on the optical drive and out comes the disk drive. What you do to replace it is push the drive in, push the tab back in.

It sounds complicated but it's pretty easy--just try it a few times.

 

Wow, this is easy. Convenient too. Not sure what to choose, an extra battery or an extra hard drive.

 

From what I've heard, the UltraBay battery exhibits some buzzing.... I have not confirmed this myself. An extra hard drive would be nice if you really need the extra storage.

the funny thing is that I too was wondering what the sliding switch on the side of my laptop was when i first got it, but found out what it was / how to use it rather quickly.

 

No BluRay UltraBay out yet? Expected in the near future? Ridiculously expensive?