On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Drexx Laggui [personal] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 18Aug2014 (UTC +8) > > I've been using Thinkpads since 1998, but early this year, switched to > Dell Latitude E6540 from a Lenovo Thinkpad W500. > Will never go back to a Thinkpad! Build quality and post-sales support > has just been going down the drain, year after year. > This was why I was willing to pay a premium for the the Thinkpad. I expected the Thinkpad to last 5+ years. It is disappointing to have it break down after 3 years. I would expect that from other models or brands but not for the Thinkpad. I also have high expectations for support. I immediately sent my laptop for servicing the following day. It has been a week now and I have not received a diagnosis. My follow up email remain unanswered. The manager at the service counter told me to expect 1 month repair time. I would be lucky to have my laptop fixed in a month. Another customer who picked up her laptop after servicing told me that it took the repair center 5 months to find a keyboard for her Thinkpad. Wow it was that long. And the service center I went to is already the main branch at the IBM Building in Eastwood. I guess this is now the norm with Lenovo. A friend of mine from abroad also had his Lenovo laptop broke down after a week. And the repair took about a month. So now I am considering a Dell. I have an eye on the XPS 13 but it is quite pricey. Performance is not really much of a consideration for me. I want durability and long battery life more. Other laptops I am considering are the: Sony Vaio Pro 13 HP Probook Anyway, I can go a max of 8 hours, according to the battery indicator > of my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Ubuntu's 14 LTS says it has better power > management, but I'm happy with my 12.04 LTS. Must admit however, I > have replaced the Seagate HDD with a Crucial MX550 SSD though, and > have disabled the AMD Radeon GPU too. > The specifications above more than fulfil my needs. Its good to know about this line from Dell. I will read up more about them. Thanks. So no Chromebook users in the Philippines? Holden
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