T30 Recall/Discount to upgrade petition ( Was:- Re: [ltp] Re: T30 owners - Memory bank problems? )

[D. Sen]

I think there is enough evidence here to suggest there is a design flaw 
with the T30s. I am on my fourth motherboard after 1.5 years of use and 
it sounds like others have had similar problems.

Compare this to my TP600 which I have used for six years. It is still 
functioning perfectly after 6 years  (the battery that came with it had 
problems but the machine itself is fine).

Anyone game to start a petition on www.petitiononline.com?

DS

Errikos Pitsos {secure} wrote:
> We have 5 T30s, all of them needed new CMOS batteries right after 
> delivery, we have had 3 times flickering displays due to some ac/dc 
> problem(only flickered during charging and load or doing battery use) 
> and we had about 7 times to replace motherboards for mem bank problems. 
> Right now 4 of our 5 machines are somehow broken. Hope we are going to 
> have more luck with our T40ps now.
> 
> e
> 
> D. Sen {u} wrote:
> 
>> At what point do they recall their products if there is a design flaw? 
>> Its fine for now while its under warranty but after the three years 
>> are up, these machines are doomed (it seems from the majority of the 
>> responses) to only have one memory bank.
>>
>> At the very least they should offer a cheap upgrade to a T4x, I should 
>> think.
>>
>> DS
>>
>> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>>> "D. Sen" <dsen@ieee.org> writes:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Just wondering if any of the T30 owners using both memory banks on
>>>> their system boards have noticed a problem. [...]
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>> Yep.  Three of us in one office at Stanford have T30s with 1 GB
>>> RAM as 2x512 MB.  All three of us have had a memory bank go bad.
>>> Two of us have had motherboards replaced, and one of those
>>> machines has in fact had two new motherboards.  I just haven't
>>> got around to getting mine repaired yet; 512 MB RAM is still
>>> plenty.
>>>
>>> We've had other problems, too, like the TFTs going bad.  I
>>> wouldn't recommend buying a T30.  They're crap for reliability.
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
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