"If you find three special screws installed at the bottom of your computer as shown in the following drawing, an IEEE 802.11 a/b Standard dual band Mini-PCI Card has been installed in the Mini-PCI Card slot. You cannot remove or replace it."
I have these screws. They are hexagonal stars. I don't know IBM's reasoning for not letting users open them, but they have screws nonetheless, so maybe there's hope. I certainly want to replace my Mini-PCI sometime when 802.11g comes out. Perhaps a tri-band a/b/g, or am I too greedy?
m00se - About the LCD.
The Screen is very clear at 1400x1050. I cannot find a better monitor for text - writing or reading. It is abolutely gorgeous in my opinion, but some people think the resolution is too high - and therefore the font is too small. I like it with normal font.
Imagine that you put a pie to your face evenly. If you line up the LCD parallel to the pie pan's bottom surface, you will get the best viewing. Varying the screen's angle off the hinge - stange things happen when you angle the screen past 10 degrees. At 30 degrees, the colors are completely unaccurate. At 60, you see negative.
For me, side-to-side seems a lot more sensitive. At a normal viewing angle moving your head more than 5 inches either way results in half your LCD having a different tint (the half you are leaning away from).
In Explorer, full brightness, the colorized column is nowhere as pronounced as a CRT. You can tell there is a shade, but probably 1/2 as well as you could on a CRT (as if you went to some photo editing/illustration program and reduced grey by 1/2).
Excel gridlines are perfectly readable - very pronounced oddly enough, given my last observation. Very clear grid, no question about it. In WinDVD, I very much enjoyed the quality and had no complaints. And as with all LCD technology, the black is never very black. It feels like an "illuminated" black, with a backlight feel to it. Can't compare to a CRT here.
I am trying to give you my most critical analysis that I can - so take them with that in mind, because despite all these potential issues, this LCD is probably the best I've seen on the market and it is the part of my T40 that I love the most.
Hope that helps.
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