There's also the X330, which combines the classic keyboard of the X220 with the faster mainboard of an X230.Journalist Naomi Hayward is drowning in debt and is at the end of her rope. They offer replacement motherboards for various classic ThinkPads, including the X200, X201 and X62, updating them with modern processors, memory and storage. The replacement motherboards come from cottage-industry scale manufacturers on the forums at. CnMod is another small Chinese business that updates teenaged – and by laptop standards, that's positively geriatric – ThinkPads.
It will be as stable as any other computer motherboard but will not have original TP software support and features." "As the motherboard is not from, it will require quite a bit of hands-on from the user to get the best experience out of the machine. "The goal is to recreate the TP experience as much as possible, while incorporating the latest CPUs and technology," XyTech's Xue Yao writes.
XyTech is trying to crowdfund a new mainboard for the 2008 T60/T61 so fans can upgrade the much-loved noughties laptop. The range of Thinkpads you can modernise is getting wider. The public won't read it of course, but at least it'll be something to point to when this inevitably comes up again. Hell, put another warning on the game box. Until that happens, they'll be forced to put out the same fire again and again.
The game rating board must construct clear guidelines on how game mods should be handled. Now we're getting somewhere, but the issue is too complex to tip-toe around. That being said, the vast majority of consumers have not made the unauthorized modifications to their hardware necessary to view the content at issue." Parents should be cognizant of whether or not their children are engaging in unauthorized modification of their games, consoles or handhelds, as those modifications can change game content in ways that may be inconsistent with the assigned ESRB rating. Rating boards cannot hold game developers responsible for what others do to code.įrom a ESRB press release today: "What parents, and indeed all consumers, need to be aware of is that computer software and hardware devices are susceptible to unauthorized modification. Modding has been a huge part of PC gaming since its infancy - and as consoles become more like computers, the practice will become more mainstream. When a game is purchased, what exactly is being bought? What is being judged for content rating? Is it the game, or the code? "Could a child buy this game at any game store? Disgusting."įor those more willing to look at the controversy, a line needs to be drawn. "So they hid sex in the game?" a local talking head asked me. I became the unofficial pre-conference tutor for my fellow hacks. The room was filled with journalists with a vague awareness they should be outraged - but it didn't get much deeper than that.
In that respect, its publishers are no different than the characters in their story," City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said. "Greed and deception are part of the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas story. This journalist had the extreme pleasure of sitting at a news conference of the Los Angeles City Attorney in 2006, when the city filed a civil lawsuit against Take-Two for failing to disclose the pornographic content. Don't count on the general public to make the distinction of a mod.