From: Andrew Wells (ajwells_at_att.net)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 17:31:04 EDT
The price was 2199 and it was sold as new... even if it was in perfect
condition I would still return it and refuse to pay that company because
they represented it as a new computer and its clearly not... that's no
way to do business
And I know the pixel drill... but the thing that really amazed me was
how poor the screen was other than the stuck pixels... I've never seen
an IBM screen with so much waviness and light and dark spots
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Morrow [mailto:penzance_at_gate.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:23 PM
To: Andrew Wells
Subject: Re: T23 thoughts and a shopper warning
hmm..
how much did you pay..?
it IS under warranty, but not for stuck pixels..
if it was sold as new, i would complain..
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Wells" <ajwells_at_att.net>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: T23 thoughts and a shopper warning
> Well I got my T23 yesterday... first, a warning to cross "Marine Park"
> off of your shopper list... they had a great price on the 26478MU, but
> when I opened the box all of the seals were broken and the machine was
> clearly a return... three bad pixels and a screen which was
unbelievably
> poor for an IBM product (wavy with light and dark spots all over)...
> this machine does buzz and whine annoyingly despite BIOS and embedded
> controller updates... the build quality is acceptable, but the
keyboard
> is definitely a big step down from the 600x (why change something that
> is an industry standard? Ah yes, it must have cost more to build)...
I
> do like how much easier XP is as far as setting up dsl and having it
> sleep and wake properly... W2000 and S98 with the poet PPPoe software
is
> a nightmare, and XP is a huge improvement there...
>
> The funny thing is that I don't notice any speed difference when
> compared with my 600x (this is the 1.13ghz pIII versus a 500mhz) and
the
> disk seems slower and MUCH louder than the 30gn I have in my 600x...
>
> Overall I still prefer the 600x, which I think I will try XP on...
this
> one is going back and "Marine Park" is being reported to the better
> business bureau
>
> Andrew Wells
>
>
>
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