[ltp] Re: T42p bluetooth?

[Osho GG]

With such a back log, you guys might wanna wait until this really cool
thing comes with the production T42's.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=749

Osho

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:50:26 -0400, Chris McDonough <chrism@plope.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 07:24, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > > Yup.  The issue was that I was attempting to purchase the system from CDW
> > > rather than via IBM.  Though CDW sells IBM warranties, they're
> > > understandably not as familiar with the warranties as IBM is.  I ended up
> > > purchasing the T42 along with a warranty upgrade via IBM.com, which was
> > > much easier, although apparently it will take about a month (!) to ship
> > > whereas CDW claimed to be able to ship it within 4 - 6 days.
> >
> > IBM .au list a month as the lead time on all equipment, and usually
> > deliver within a week.  I have *never* actually waited out the claimed
> > time.
> 
> No such luck in the US this month apparently. I called IBM sales to
> doublecheck on its order status and it's apparently on a 3-week
> backorder.  It won't ship until ~ October 26th.  This is slightly better
> than the web-supplied estimated ship date of Nov. 3, so it looks like
> they give themselves a one-week fudge factor or so but not a 3-week
> fudge factor as I had hoped.
> 
> I don't know if the backorder cuts across their whole product line or
> what.  But if the "buy today, ship today" offers on ibm.com are any
> indication you can't buy any laptops from ibm.com/us and have them ship
> immediately, which makes me think there's some sort of fundamental
> laptop parts shortage at the moment.  Maybe the hurricanes in the
> southeastern part of the US had some sort of impact or maybe Korea
> decided that RAM costs $100 per kilobyte today or... ;-)
> 
> > This, I suspect, is because their policy ensures they never deliver late
> > to a customer -- by quoting the worst possible time estimate.
> 
> "Underpromise, overdeliver" is definitely a good strategy.
> 
> > Hopefully it will get through to you sooner.  I always found that
> > calling and following up on a sale gets you useful information, too, and
> > may help get it scheduled sooner. :)
> 
> I'm not really in a hurry to get it (aside from natural illogical "toy
> impatience") so I didn't bother to agitate for an earlier ship date.
> But I'd advise others to call before ordering if they definitely need a
> laptop in a certain amount of time regardless of what estimated ship
> date is presented on the website.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - C
> 
> 
> 
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