My thinkpad has the wrong specs!

I just purchased an R61 from circuit city. When I got it home, I noticed that a bunch of the specs listed on the website do not match the model I received. Online, the laptop was listed as a dual core 1.8 processor with 1 GB of RAM. The laptop was also supposed to come with a media card reader. The laptop I got only has a 1.5 dual core processor, but it has 2 GB of RAM. It also appears to be missing the media card reader.

I paid $1100 for the laptop, and I got a $150 mail-in rebate, so the laptop comes to $950 (not counting taxes). My dilemma is whether I should keep this laptop w/ the different specs. I like it a lot, but I don't know if I overpaid for the different specs. I don't necessarily need a powerhouse (obviously, since I was happy with a 1.8 processor), but did I get screwed with the slower CPU speed? Are there any other specs that I may have been screwed on that I don't know about? Thanks so much for the input.

 

for $1100, i think you can definately build a better one on the lenovo website.
be sure to use educational discount, or any current coupon codes.

you should return it, and get one online, unless you need one now

 

Thanks for the advice - I think I'll return it and build one online. I have a few questions though regarding customizations, if someone could kindly help me out:

1) What is the 1 GB Intel Turbo Memory Cache?

2) What is a "Smart Card Slot" for?

3) Is there some type of general "educational discount" I'm missing, b/c I can't seem to find anything.

Thanks again for the help!

 

When you go to the Lenovo homepage click education and then towards the bottom of the resulting page select the students and alumni link. Try this link: http://shoplenovo.i2.com/SEUILibrar...ty=usstudents&ConfigContext=StdAffinityPortal

 

Thanks for the help - worked like a charm.

 

Don't buy the turbo memory, you can get it for a lot less on amazon. And forget the smart card, just businesses use it for a identification.

 

How did you determine it has a 1.5GHz CPU?

 

Thanks for the info Tailic. From the little I read about the turbo memory, it seems that if there is any improvement, it occurs in Vista, and I plan on reformatting w/ XP, so I guess I won't bother with it.

As far as the CPU speed - I right-clicked on My Computer in Windows and also used Sisoft Sandra (a diagnostics tool) - both had it listed as a 1.5 GHz CPU. I don't know why circuit city's site has completely different specs (I've since noticed the model I got didn't have a firewire port, which the site had it listed as having). The model # matches, but the CPU, RAM, Media Reader, and Firewire port aren't consistent with their listing...

 

What did the specs at Circuit City specify? The R61's on Lenovo's site are either 1.8 Celerons or 1.5 C2D's...

http://www.pc.ibm.com/ca/thinkpad/rseries/index.html