[ltp] Re: T42p bluetooth?

[Brian Beattie]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 15:43, Osho GG wrote:
> 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

I can just see it, a paper cut on your scanning finger and you can't do
any work :D

> 
> 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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