My stepson is still using my ThinkPad from about the same time - with Windows ME, no less!
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob W-PDML Sent: Friday, 14 February 2014 9:25 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Lenovo Computers On 13 Feb 2014, at 21:34, "Bill" <[email protected]> wrote: > > A year ago, I bought my wife a Lenovo laptop. Apparently these machines > aren't the best there is, but this was for very light home use, my wife does nothing with a home computer beyond a bit of web surfing. She doesn't even have a home email address. > Anyway, she told me a month ago that the keyboard was faulty, and several > keys didn't work. > Apparently, the Lenovo warranty is one year, and the machine was off warranty > by manufacture date. > Eventually, I was able to get Lenovo to extend the warranty to the retail > sales date, so I took it in to the shop where a bad keyboard was diagnosed. > > The repair depot has now decided that they have no knowledge of the computer > coming in to be looked at, and now the warranty has expired. > > Note to self, do not EVER buy another Lenovo computer. > > Friends don't let friends buy Lenovo. I've had a couple of Thinkpad X100e netbooks. They are very well built. The first one came to an abrupt end when someone spilt a glass of water on it and screwed the motherboard. The replacement still works, but overheats, especially running Windows. It was bought as a couch-potato machine, and I now use an iPad for that, so the TP is just for mucking about with experimental operating systems. One of these days I will swap the heat sink from the dead machine, but i'm in no hurry. At work we used to supply Thinkpads to the people who go around jumping out of helicopters and driving Landcruisers around dusty places. The Thinkpads were fairly bomb-proof, but I think we ended the contract for reasons other than the quality of the machines. I still have a working IBM TP 760ED from 1995. I think it's made of cast iron. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
