Subscribe (I know it has been quite sometime since my last post. If there's anyone out there still regularly checking this blog.. sorry.
Anyway I have been in the market for a new computer. My old thinkpad finally bit the dust last november (at least the screen did) so I have been limping along with a crappy toshiba for the last 6 months. I was waiting for the laptops that featured Santa Rosa to come out but around the middle of april I decided that Santa Rosa wasn't worth waiting for and started seriously shopping for a new laptop.
I began the search thinking I would not purchase another thinkpad as I was somewhat leary about them since they were sold to Lenovo. The major other computer I was looking at was a MacBook Pro. Well long story short I ended up back in the thinkpad's arms and settled on a Thinkpad T60.
I ordered onsale at lenovo.com and expected it to take several weeks. It took just about 1/2 a month to get here, arriving on May 2nd. I opened it up and immediately started hacking away at it... it was great! I was very happy with my purchase. Up until this point I had been only using it with AC power. Well this is where my problems began. The machine would turn itself off every 2 or 3 minutes when it wasn't on AC (yes, the battery had been charged for a full 24 hours and was showing 100%). I thought upgrading the BIOS might fix this, it didn't. The problem progressed to the screen not turning on at all. I called Lenovo and asked to return the machine. They were friendly and issued an RMA for the old machine and helped me get a new order in (with slightly upgraded specs) for a replacement. They also assured me that I was on their critical list seeing as I had already been waiting 2 weeks+ for my laptop.
That was back at the beginning of may. It is now almost the end of may and still no laptop. Oh well, it will get here when it gets here, I'm getting impatient though. On the upside lenovo has issued me a 10% discount in addition to my already discounted machine for having to wait so long. All in all I am getting this thing for about 50% less than what it usually costs!
Read the extended entry to see the specs of the latpop. I'll post an update with how i like the computer after I receive it.
