[Thinkpad] R51 guts into R31 shell?

[Jonathan Berry]

Those with more intimate knowledge of hardware compatibilities 
will be able to answer your question, but it seems to me that
you might get away with acquiring a dock for your R31 (charging 
port would be that on the dock), and a new or used keyboard for
your R51 (Lenovo will do it for free if it is still under 
warranty).  Then you'd have two working Thinkpads, instead of 
one or zero.


>Here's my predicament.  I have a non-working Thinkpad R31.  It doesn't
>work because the charging port is busted so I can't ever run it on
>anything but the battery.  I also have a Thinkpad R51, however the
>keyboard on it is going.  The space bar is already pretty much useless
>in that I have to pound it to get a space to actually appear.  I fear
>other keys are not far behind.  I'm wondering if it'd be possible to
>disassemble my 2 Thinkpads and place the internals of the R51 into the
>R31 case.  Does anyone have any opinions or other ideas?  Thanks!
>

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