We am happier with Thinkpads than any other, and own 30 that we loan out. We recommend that all companies with field reps buy Thinkpads. But we have had a LOT of unhappy purchase agents and technology coordinators complain about the T61 and T61. It remains to be seen if these newer, even more expensive models will hold up, but so far it doesn't look good.
I hope that Lenovo, despite its enormous financial problems currently being reported, will find a way to maintain quality in their top of the line units. We have been very disappointed with their management attititude that started with the T-43 hard drive, BIOS, and motherboard issues... when they official said that the problem didn't matter as there were not that many Thinkpad T-43 owners and the issues would soon be forgotton. In the IBM days, they would have fixed that problem. I do understand the problem was created during IBM design, but the failures started during the Lenova era. Their attitude has been similar on the T60 and T61... "Oh, well!" We will get over it, but we have no choice... Still, HP's high end laptops and Dell high end laptops have a much better record with our business and industrial clients. We are starting to worry. Lenovo financial problems, which are massive, could lead to further slips in quality as they are cutting back in every department. RayBay ________ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old. . . . . . . . . . Will Rogers On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] < [email protected]> wrote: > Not to contradict anyone or start a flame war, I'll pass on my experiences > here. > > We've been buying Thinkpads since I got here (the perq of being CIO, I had > bought them before at another job starting with 755CS but couldn't mandate > that), probably a few hundred, starting with T20s. In general, they've held > up pretty good. Had a few disks and fans fail. One motherboard IIRC, one > cracked screen (user said "I might have sat on it") but considering the > environment, lots of travel, yucky bio labs, I think that's pretty good. My > X's (41, 60, 301) have been great. But I still hate track pads -- love the > track point. > > Biggest complaint has been they don't come in stylish colors like Dell (not > to be sexist but that's only from some women). > > So I'm still happy with Thinkpads. > > Robert > > > Well, we felt that way about the T-60 and T61, but as the days flow > > by, disappointment grows. These are not in the same tradition as the > > 600X, T23, T-30, T42, and so many others. > > ______________________________ > Robert Rosen > CIO, NIAMS - NIH > Sent from wireless handheld > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
