From: Andrew Wells (ajwells_at_att.net)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 20:53:47 EDT
(laughing) touché! I suppose its not fair to judge a defective
machine... perhaps I will see if they will send me a new one and then go
from there
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Markowitz [mailto:scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:47 PM
To: Andrew Wells; 'Bill Morrow'
Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: T23 thoughts and a shopper warning
Which is why someone else sent it back!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Wells" <ajwells_at_att.net>
To: "'Bill Morrow'" <marrow_at_adelphia.net>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: RE: T23 thoughts and a shopper warning
> 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..
>
> <------------------------------->
> Cordially, :-)
> Bill Morrow
> WEB page http://thinkpads.com
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> or go to thinkpads.com and link from there
> E-Mail: bill at thinkpads dot com
> ----- 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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