No, it hasn’t caught fire, at least…<\/p>\n
I’m doing some work for a company that was kind enough to give me one of their laptops when I gave Biggest Guy my old Thinkpad because his noname laptop fell apart. But they use Dells, and I hate the keyboard and generally flimsy feel of the Latitude D600 they give out. Note that it seems to work fine today…<\/p>\n
…and they’re paying me enough that I can buy my own laptop, and they’re getting cheaper and more capable, so I go over to the Lenovo site, and order a T60p widescreen. Dual core processor, 2GB Ram, nice video – seems like a nice upgrade, reasonably priced, etc. Hand over the Amex number and forget about the order…back on February 18.<\/p>\n
You’ll note that I’m trying this on the company Dell and it’s March 29, and I don’t have a firm ship date yet.Apparently “a few orders got caught in the system<\/i>” and delayed. Anyone else out there hung out there like I am?<\/p>\n
I’m on the third level of escalation and a nice young woman is supposed to call me tomorrow. I’m somehow doubtful, <\/p>\n
It makes me think of an old Doonesbury (when he was funny) in which Uncle Duke (my personal role model) goes into the import-export business in Miami. He’s shown sitting in front of the computer, talking on the phone to a customer who wonders “What happened to that last shipment?”<\/p>\n
“It’s lost in the computer somewhere…” Duke explains.<\/p>\n
“No problem, we’ll send a couple of guys to help you go in and look for it,” is the reply.<\/p>\n
Sadly, that option isn’t open to potential Lenovo customers.<\/p>\n
So – as above, let me know if anyone you know is in the same boat – let’s see how big a problem this really is. And in the event that I decide to cancel the order tomorrow, who else makes a rugged laptop with a great keyboard? No Macs, please – that’s another topic totally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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