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    Lenovo estimated ship date three weeks?!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by kingneptune117, May 4, 2011.

  1. kingneptune117

    kingneptune117 Notebook Guru

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    Ordered a Thinkpad T420 yesterday. I checked the status of it and it says estimated ship date May 26th! What the heck why so long?
     
    kingneptune117, May 4, 2011
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    kingneptune117 Notebook Guru

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    bump is this a common amount of time for one to wait for a laptop from lenovo?
     
    kingneptune117, May 4, 2011
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    thecrafter Notebook Consultant

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    They always put such long wait times. Expect it to ship in 1-1.5 weeks
     
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    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    A Lenovo rep told me it may take 2 weeks just to build my T420 let alone ship. In the end even with the holidays I got mine in just 11 days from order to my doorstep (probably would've been 9 on normal days), so all hope is not lost. Lenovo generally give you quite a long ship date but its not unusual to see orders sent out before their estimated ship date.
     
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    jjahshik32 Notebook Deity

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    I noticed this myself as well! I had a feeling that it wouldnt take that long. Talk about super conservative delivery time.
     
    jjahshik32, May 4, 2011
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    Lenovo always puts down 3 weeks for estimated shipping date for a CTO order, but they tend to ship it out in 1.5 weeks
     
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    I ordered an E420 on 4/23 and received notice that it shipped today 5/4 -- 11 calendar days after ordering. So the '1.5 weeks' seems to be right on!
     
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    kingneptune117 Notebook Guru

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    Ah ok. Another question.

    I have noticed that Lenovo seems to use a variety of parts in their laptops and it is really a lottery as to whether or not you will get a good set of parts or not. Do all brands do this? I hope my T420 will have good parts haha.
     
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  10. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Better to under-promise and over deliver than vice versa.

    Also given it is a new model, that isn't completely out of the ordinary. The new XPS models are sometimes quoted 4-6 weeks for delivery..
     
    Tsunade_Hime, May 4, 2011
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