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Martin’s W500 battery woes
hi again, my W500 battery started to die about 1 year old. going from 40% load into emergency shut down (after about 40 minutes on battery). lenovo says "sorry … 2 days out of warranty". my dealer proves lenovo wrong … "sorry lenovo, 5 days inside warranty". soooo, lenovo asks me to send in the [...]
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Martin’s SMS Misery
hello again here is another wonderful story about the engineer suckers at lenovo. in august 2009 i bought a $3500 lenovo W500 with windows vista that came with the windows 7 upgrade options (both versions ultimate 64bit). after upgrading to 7 in spring of 2010 i discovered that my computer could no longer send SMS [...]
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Jon’s T61P Horror Story
I bought a tricked-out T61p in April 2008 for $2100. In March 2009 the motherboard died. In August 2010 that motherboard died. Replacement cost estimated at $750 because out of warranty. Apparently the replacement motherboard has only a 30-day warranty or until the end of your service contract, whichever comes first. Called support who, as [...]
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A particularly bad day for Lenovo’s Support
Today is a particularly bad day to get support from Lenovo – any site within their support site displays:
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Martin’s W500 troubles continue.. the video driver
here is another experience about the unbelievable lenovo service attitude=ineptitude. in october 2009, i purchased two high-end W500s (at about 3.000 euro a piece) with vista ultimate 64bit. i purchased the laptops "ready for windows 7" and they came complete with the windows 7 ultimate 64 bit upgrade option. right from the beginning, the video [...]
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Martin’s W500 troubles
hi there, lenovo truly sucks … and when i googled the two words, your site came up i would like to share my recent W500 experience. lenovo has decided that win7 no longer supports SMS text message functionality and that's it. they won't give you a different software either. so now, everytime i want to [...]
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Thinkpad x201 Tablet no longer for sale on lenovo.com
Lenovo has removed their Thinkpad x201 tablet from their site and posted the following message: This product is no longer available for purchase on lenovo.com. You may still buy this product from a Lenovo retailer or reseller. (from http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/notebooks/thinkpad/x-series-tablet/x201tablet) So much for making the fastest ultraportable tablet…
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Lenovo Outlet
While looking for a replacement power adapter at Lenovo's outlet store, I came across the following: Nice work! While I fully expect that the store is hosted / managed by a 3rd party vendor that Lenovo has chosen, publicly available debug info of this nature isn't a good idea.
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Rob’s Lenovo UK Sales Experience
Just to confirm that this is not a US-only experience. On November 14th 2009, I spent most of the day speccing a new laptop and finally settled for a ThinkPad. Over two days I created a customized machine and then purchased it, or so I thought. The online status of my order went straight to [...]
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The new Lenovo X220 tablet