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I've thought about buying a Lenovo laptop next time I look at notebooks. With the problems I'm getting with my HP (including support service and component prices), I just might do so in the future.
Thinkpads have actually gone quite some way since being part of the IBM range some years back. They are pretty awesome right now.
Thinkpads have actually gone quite some way since being part of the IBM range some years back. They are pretty awesome right now.
damian24
Senior Member
huh? build quality on thinkpads has dropped since IBM sold it off,I've had plenty of failures in the new (purely lenovo batch) compared to the 25 thinkpads I got 2 years ago.
25 R52's, only major problems were keys coming off the keyboard and dud CD-Writers which were fixed by a swapout... oh yes the battery recall.
25 R61 and 4 x R60e. So far in 4 months, 2 x DOA, 8 x palm rest replacement, 1 x main board recall, 4 x battery recall, 1 x HDD failure, 1 x keyboard failure.
Biggest problem I've had on the new stuff, you need to uninstall away-manager otherwise performance is cruddy due to symantec endpoint and corp. faulting ecause of some problem (been waiting for Lenovo to fix for ages).
You also need to uninstall all the rubbish they pre-install.
So what would I buy given the choice? Lenovo... of course, my NBD warrantee really is NBD and it's back by IBM meaning stuff just gets fixed, I've given up on the patheitic HP warrantee.... I wait for around 30 minutes for HP support, I log support calls with IBM in 3 and the problems' rseolve the next day.
Why else would I buy Lenovo? I've had staff drop 'em, spill on em and even drive over a couple and they still worked fine (except for the one that were driven over where I had to swap out the LCD and LCD bezel).
They're hardy machines, but not quite reliable as they were in the past.
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25 R52's, only major problems were keys coming off the keyboard and dud CD-Writers which were fixed by a swapout... oh yes the battery recall.
25 R61 and 4 x R60e. So far in 4 months, 2 x DOA, 8 x palm rest replacement, 1 x main board recall, 4 x battery recall, 1 x HDD failure, 1 x keyboard failure.
Biggest problem I've had on the new stuff, you need to uninstall away-manager otherwise performance is cruddy due to symantec endpoint and corp. faulting ecause of some problem (been waiting for Lenovo to fix for ages).
You also need to uninstall all the rubbish they pre-install.
So what would I buy given the choice? Lenovo... of course, my NBD warrantee really is NBD and it's back by IBM meaning stuff just gets fixed, I've given up on the patheitic HP warrantee.... I wait for around 30 minutes for HP support, I log support calls with IBM in 3 and the problems' rseolve the next day.
Why else would I buy Lenovo? I've had staff drop 'em, spill on em and even drive over a couple and they still worked fine (except for the one that were driven over where I had to swap out the LCD and LCD bezel).
They're hardy machines, but not quite reliable as they were in the past.
D