It's ridiculous how many people are getting their Lenovos like 2-3 months later....

i dont understand how that is even acceptable... i ordered a T61 like a month ago and came in 7 days.... i mean seriously? is there even a prenotation before you order it that it will take that long?

 

What is the point of this thread?

 

i don't quite understand. but anyway, I ordered mine on Mar 27, but i'm still waiting. and it's gonna take at least another 10 days before i can get, i believe. That really sucks.

 

Depends on what you order. Some parts may be delayed and that delays the whole shipment. Some shipments can get lost. It could be the country your ordering from. It could also be luck. I got mine in 2 weeks. Others who ordered around my time took a lot longer.

 

i placed my order on april 7th with probably a lot upgrades than standard r61 (cam, bluetooth, dvd burner, 1 ram stick, higher resolution screen.. etc) and i just received a notification today at 12pm saying all or part of my order is shipped (i did not buy ibm bag so only thing on the PO is the laptop, so it must be the laptop)

since i only plan to play midcore games like guild wars and etc. i think ill live fine with x3100... if not i guess ill still crack up my C2D E6400 + x1950 desktop machine

 

lately lots of parts have been on backorder. Last year it only took 1-2 weeks o receive your laptops

 

It took my T61 14w 17 days to make it to my house. And that included a few accessories which could have added delays;

Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay adapter
Ultrabay battery
90 watt charger
AC/Car/Airplane 90 watt charger
External battery charger.
7 cell battery (to go along with my 9 cell battery)

I ordered mine pretty well loaded up with the exception of the video card - I was going for longer battery life. I was pleased with the delivery of my notebook. And it came just in time for my vacation.

Scooter

 

Once again, forums aren't really a great barometer of how many people experience delays or problems with a manufacturer.

A vast majority of Lenovo owners don't visit forums.

The ones that do are:
1) Researching what laptop they want to buy.
2) Have a problem and want a place for it to be seen.
3) Computer hardware nuts that like to visit forums (I fall in this category)

 

At first I thought when you wrote 14w, you meant 14 weeks but then you had that big smiley face and I realized it was the 14" widescreen lol!

 

I think it is the batteries (9-cell) and the extra wireless configurations. I think that is why battery prices went up as well - higher demand, smaller supply, higher price, and longer wait.

 

Right now, if you order without the WWAN antenna, it's 1-2 weeks, but with it is 4+ weeks. My friend ordered a T61 and it came in less than a week from Hong Kong. It's as if it was built right away and shipped.

 

Its definately not the wwan cause I just ordered a t61p on 4/11/08 and it is scheduled for delivery on 4/16/08. Only five days from order to delivery is awesome. Reading these threads I was prepared to wait and it just worked out. I live in so california and the specs of the order are as follows:
6459CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
Serial Number: XXXXXX

$1,624.10 $1,624.10
43Y3426 SBB INTEL CORE2DUO PROC.T9300
42V8173 VBB MS WIN VISTA BUSSINESS 64
42V8472 SBB MS WIN VISTA BUSS.64 US EN
42V8288 ** SBB 15.4 WUXGA TFT
42X5976 SBB NVID QUA FX570M-256MB OPGL
41W2068 VBB 4GB PC2-5300 667MHZ 2DIMM
42V8195 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH
42V8297 SBB UN(TRCKP TOUCHPAD)FINGERRE
42V8169 SBB 100GB HDD,7200RPM
42V8172 SBB DVD REC.8XMAXDUAL LAY UB-S
42X0805 VBB PC CARDSLOT EX CARDSLOT
42V8177 SBB INT.WIRE.WIFI/LINK4965AGN
62P6054 VBB INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN
42V9334 SBB WAN:CINGULAR
42V8187 SBB THINKPAD WIRELESS USB ADPT
41W1508 SBB 6 CELL LI-ION BATTERY
39T6442 SBB COUNTRY PACK NORTH AMERICA
42X1524 SBB LP-US ENGLISH
1 CAFEE08 RECYCLE FEE FOR PRODUCT WITH 15 TO 34 INCH DISPLAY
$8.00 $8.00
1 73P3597 LENOVO THINKPAD EXPANDER CARRYING CASE - NOTEBOOK CARRYING CASE
$53.10 $53.10
Status: Shipped on 04/14/2008 More info
Track Shipment Shipment type: UPS Ground


Shipping & Handling $0.00
Tax $138.37
Total $1,823.57



Additional information about your order:

Customer
number: XXXXXX Order date: 04/11/08

And I think the price blows the competition out of the water...

 

Ah...a "vent your/my frustrations" thread. I'm not sure how many of these people that are getting their orders delayed were ordering from Lenovo Canada vs. Lenovo USA. My turnaround was less than a business week when I ordered my CTO R61 from Lenovo USA.

 

My 3/31 T61 order has an estimated ship of 5/21. I followed up to see what was holding it up thinking I might cancel/reorder reducing the 7 week wait. I was told that the 9 cell battery is what my order was waiting on.

 

In canada I ordered mine on the first of april, and it is about to ship out from brampton ontario.

 

I ordered a CTO X61 with 8 cell battery and Penryn 2.4Ghz in the US on April 10th. It shipped today, April 16th. Not bad at all.