Lenovo CHINESE Model?????

Possibly not the correct forum. But Let's post here anyway.

So, My dad recently went to China, I figured this was my time to get a Good notebook on the cheap, and I figured since Lenovo are a Chinese company they would be in abundance.

I gave my Dad money, and very strict instuctions as to the notebook I wanted (Lenovo T61p) easy enough I thought.

Ha came back with a notebook... but I dont know WHAT he spent my money on.

Ok, these are ALL the numbers I have been supplied with:

Model Name: 14002

ML3054

3y1a83y745357cp

10-7019-050020

400 series - c457a model


Look.. essentially I don't know WHAT this Noteook is and If i should keep it or send it back to China with a friend of mine who is going in a few weeks.

APPARENTLY its a think pad... (or so my dear dad was informed) problem is there is NO SUCH MARKING on the computer.

All instructions are in Chinese. I'm soooo lost. I can't find ANY information on ANY model number I have been given.

HELP ME!

ALL INFORMATION GREATLY APPRECIATED.

 

use everest and cpu-z to find out what your specs are.

 

sorry, I'm a complete n00b,

everest?

cpu-z

??

*cringe*

 

Fact of the matter , Thinkpads in china costs a whole lot more than in the US. A typical US2,000 T61p would be about $4000 in China. Also from what I heard, the warranty on those are not recognized outside China.
Just do a search for cpu-z or PC Wizard 2008.

 

I think he's an Aussie though based on the flag in his double-post. But still, it was sorta a mistake in buying from China due to the whole issue with warranties, power cords, and getting ripped off by a dishonest salesman. And yes, technology in general does cost a lot more in China despite the lower cost of everything else there... well given enough bargaining =P

Sounds like a Lenovo G400? None of the numbers match up with the Thinkpad line.

[Edit:] Sorry, sounds like you got ripped off badly based on the responses on your other thread.

 

Yeah, living in Aus.

Yup, I really think I did get very badly ripped off...

such is life, such is idiocy.

 

I can't find a C457a but there is a C467a on Lenovo's China site.

The basic stats for the C467a are:
Celeron T2330 (1.6GHz 533MHz FSB) or Core 2 Duo T5450 (1.66GHz 667MHz FSB)
GM965 chipset
1GB DDR2 RAM
160GB HDD
14" WXGA display
NVidia GeForce 8400 GPU with 128MB
etc.

 

I think we have a winner.

Doesn't look too terribly bad for 6000-7000 RMB (~$850-1000 USD). I wouldn't say you got robbed blind. It still looks fairly capable. It's just not a Thinkpad.

 

...yeah, we have a winner (obviously not me), it looks the same anyway.

bad, very very bad. Almost laughably bad. Almost...

 

Meis,

Please don't forget to thank your Dad.

Alacrity

 

ThinkPads are terribly expensive in China judging from the ThinkPad China site. T series start at 20,000 RMB, or about $2500 USD. Ouch.

Think of it this way, Lenovo was already a large computer maker in China before they bought IBM's PC division. Their own models were already entrenched, and ThinkPads are foreign, premium brand to the market. They know they can charge a lot for that premium.

 

Not necessarily. If you're in China, you don't buy from official sources. You go to the electronics centres and you can find, say, a 14" T61 with nVidia graphics, 160gb hdd, 1gb ram, 2.2Ghz processor, bluetooth, camera, and draft-N for RMB10,000. Even less now that they are selling Penryn models. You just have to look in the right places. Oh, and by the way, these models are usually intended for outside markets such as Singapore, and are granted world-wide warranties, except of course for China.

 

that is a Lenovo product in China, but not thinkpad, In chinese it was called "Xu Ri".
Lenovo has several Laptop products (Thinkpad, Ideapad, Tianyi, Xuri, Zhaoyang etc) for different customers in China.

 

czhang told the truth.

what always makes me confused is how come so many electronic/online stores in China are selling smuggled thinkpads without any scruples nowadays?

In just 3 years ago selling/advertising for smuggled notebooks was not so open. You could never find the address of the company or the person then. What you might get was just a phone number.

 

I'm guessing the current crop of local "officials" in those areas are more receptive to having their skids greased.

 

Yeah, I know the market for parallel import, grey market or water goods is huge. I have worked in Hong Kong long enough to have purchased many water goods over the years. They are not illegal per se. They are just not sold through the authorized dealers channel and do not nominally have service and support.

 

That's what we called Lenovo 3000 G410 in Hong Kong. One of the lowest priced Lenovo (non-Thinkpad) notebooks. Priced less than HKD5000 (USD640) here.

http://www-07.ibm.com/lenovoinfo/hk/notebooks/3000smb/g-series/index.html

 

Well I don't know about in HK but in China there is worldwide support, well except for in China...