[ltp] What to take care of when buying a Lenovo?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008, Christoph Lechleitner wrote:
> Like USA, China or Brasil?

In Brazil you'll just get lower-price models.  My 1400x1050 T43 had to come
from the USA via Finland (don't ask, and yes, all due taxes were paid
otherwise I'd not have been able to get warranty in Brazil).  Try USA,
Germany, UK, Japan, Australia, China.

And definately phone Lenovo and give them crap over it.  If enough people
complain, they will make a 1680x1050 local model available (I don't know if
1920x1200 is possible with the Intel GPU in the first place).

> I have reseller access to several hardware distributor's online shops
> (in and around Austria and Germany, which is nearby the Czech Republic
> and Poland), and there simply are no Intel GPU based T/R/X/Z 6x
> available with 1680x1050 or even 1920x1200, not to mention that only 1
> or 2 models available support 4 GB of RAM (which still is barely enough
> for my needs).

All models support 4GB.  Support != comes with.  And if you need more than
4GB, I don't think any current "normal" laptop can help you there.  Unless
swap would help, in which case a SSD can give you a LOT of extra space that
is quite fast.

> If anyone can name us a European source for thinkpads with Intel GPU,
> 1920x1200 and 4 GB RAM, I'd consider buying a new one at once, while my
> existing one is still worth selling away.

Can't help you there :-(

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  Henrique Holschuh