We actually had a really good service experience with Lenovo. They sent us an overnight box, fixed the problem and overnighted it back, all in warranty, no charge. Total time, less than a business week, and that's with me futzing around figuring out where to drop off the box.
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Liese S. - Jul 23, 2011 10:12:16 am PDT #17270 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Gudanov - Jul 23, 2011 1:29:57 pm PDT #17271 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad I've only had for a couple of months. It's pretty nice and I paid the extra $50 to get the 9 cell battery. The battery life is pretty good, I'm guessing 7-9 hours depending on what I'm doing. Feels well constructed too, but I haven't had to deal with service.
Typo Boy - Jul 23, 2011 2:29:36 pm PDT #17272 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Interesting Liese. Was this recent? Because my friend in Chico sent in his laptop for service in May, and got in back in June with Malware. And during the six weeks it was gone they sent him notices that it was on the way to China, that it was in China being worked on, that it had been shipped back to the U.S. and so on.
Jesse - Jul 23, 2011 2:43:42 pm PDT #17273 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
iTunes can kiss my ass -- I deauthorized all computers, reauthorized the current one, and there's still the same issue. I have no idea what kind of issue there could be with the iPod, because I only have the one Apple ID, but I guess I'll just go without those songs. Bleh.
Liese S. - Jul 23, 2011 2:45:02 pm PDT #17274 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yup, I'd say within the last 8-12 months.
hippocampus - Jul 23, 2011 2:45:18 pm PDT #17275 of 25501
not your mom's socks.
Twitter is all lit up with tech folks (former Google staff, laughing Squid employees, DJs) losing either G+ access or being locked out of everything -mail, calendars, documents - is anyone else seeing this?
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Liese S. - Jul 23, 2011 2:47:26 pm PDT #17276 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm in G+ fine.
sumi - Jul 23, 2011 2:52:16 pm PDT #17277 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
Google has apparently, tossed out a bunch of early users.
Typo Boy - Jul 23, 2011 3:49:47 pm PDT #17278 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
If this story is not leaving out anything, this type of problem with gogole has been happening a while.
Or maybe it is something else.
On the previous discussion, Liese if your friend got good service in the last 8 months but my friend got hosed two months ago maybe something has changed very recently for Lenovo. Like in the last two or three months.
Dana - Jul 23, 2011 6:54:08 pm PDT #17279 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
What about Asus laptops? I've been pretty happy with my Asus netbook, but I don't know if there's any difference with the bigger machine.