This is my 3rd and final Lenovo/IBM I believe. I was drawn to the t61 because our t43's could not be upgraded to have larger drives.
After waiting for over a month to receive it, and ancipating the larger screen size, quiter and cooler run and larger memory capacity with N-band network speeds, I was saddened to find the following:
1. My n-band does not work. After playing tag between IBM and Linksys, with IBM blaming Linksys and Linksys blaming IBM, I finally purchased a Linksys PCMCIA card and hey presto, N-band worked. So it's a laptop issue. We also have two of these t61's so it cannot be just a faulty card unless they have a bad batch. In any event, I called IBM and they had the audacity to tell me that I had to pay for premium service in order to figure out why my N-band was not working. So this pissed me off.
2. The dual core speed sucks. Let me tell you. I notice no speed difference between mt t43p and t61. They both have the same drive 5400rpm drive speeds and if anything, the t61 has more memory. I noticed horrible jerky playback on videos too when running a DVD on the drive.
3. If you buy 4GB of memory and fall for the "a patch is what you need to make it work on vista" trick, your wasting your money. After downloading the updates, I still couldn't get my 4GB memory to work on Vista 32. Turns out (and I trusted the sales rep) that only Vista 64 supports 4GB of memory.
Right now, I am about to return these guys. Ready to call Amex and dispute my purchase. I'm still waiting for a customer service rep to call me back who when I call is constantly on the phone and has a message that she will call everyone back in the order the calls were received.
There's more to PC games than computer towers and input devices... Enter the CM Storm Sirus, the outfit's first foray into the world of gaming headsets.
The most commented posts on Engadget over the past 24 hours.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
This is my 3rd and final Lenovo/IBM I believe. I was drawn to the t61 because our t43's could not be upgraded to have larger drives.
After waiting for over a month to receive it, and ancipating the larger screen size, quiter and cooler run and larger memory capacity with N-band network speeds, I was saddened to find the following:
1. My n-band does not work. After playing tag between IBM and Linksys, with IBM blaming Linksys and Linksys blaming IBM, I finally purchased a Linksys PCMCIA card and hey presto, N-band worked. So it's a laptop issue. We also have two of these t61's so it cannot be just a faulty card unless they have a bad batch. In any event, I called IBM and they had the audacity to tell me that I had to pay for premium service in order to figure out why my N-band was not working. So this pissed me off.
2. The dual core speed sucks. Let me tell you. I notice no speed difference between mt t43p and t61. They both have the same drive 5400rpm drive speeds and if anything, the t61 has more memory. I noticed horrible jerky playback on videos too when running a DVD on the drive.
3. If you buy 4GB of memory and fall for the "a patch is what you need to make it work on vista" trick, your wasting your money. After downloading the updates, I still couldn't get my 4GB memory to work on Vista 32. Turns out (and I trusted the sales rep) that only Vista 64 supports 4GB of memory.
Right now, I am about to return these guys. Ready to call Amex and dispute my purchase. I'm still waiting for a customer service rep to call me back who when I call is constantly on the phone and has a message that she will call everyone back in the order the calls were received.
I'm done with Lenovo. What a shame.