Foreword
My experience with then IBM owned Thinkpad T43P was horrible. It was perhaps the noisiest laptop in the world: its fan sounded like a tractor, and to make things worse, the hard drive also span with grating noises. I ended up returning the $1500 T43P, and hated Thinkpad for a long time.
Why compare DV2000T with a Thinkpad T61?
Abhorred by the noisy Thinkpad, I opted for a HP DV2000T and liked it. But I have to admit that I still secretly want a Thinkpad despite my suffering with T43P. Honestly, I miss its sturdy feel though I hate its raucousness. My sister needs on laptop for her accounting business, so I persuaded her to get a Thinkpad T61 and did a fresh reinstallation of Windows XP on it.
Now I have the chance to compare these two lappies side by side, even though T61 is a generation younger than DV2000T.