Nice little upgrade

So at work, we sent a T61 in to Lenovo for repair, since the user had spilled some water on it, and it had some other knicks and damage. We've got full protection on our machines, so we just assumed it would get fixed as usual. Well, Lenovo contacted my co-worker, and said the parts needed to fix this machine were not available, so they were sending us a "comparable" replacement. We send in a T61 with the following specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2GHz, 7200rpm 100GB HDD, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

And in return, we get this:
Lenovo T510 i5-540M(2.53GHz), 4GB RAM, 160GB Solid State Drive, 512MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS3100m, Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure Chip, FPR, Camera, 6c Li-Ion, Win7 Pro 64

All in all, not bad.

 

Dang.

Now you're making me hope that my T61p will die.

 

@diggy: Nice swap. @BobXX: I wouldn't want your T61p to die.

The Lenovo T6x and the IBM T4x are venerable tanks. I literally feel the quality sturdiness every time I use one of them - in the lid, in the palm rest, everywhere. Opening the lid, one can feel quality oozing out of the two steel hinges.

Not in the current products.

 

An SSD too? What warranty do you have? If it's the basic un-upgraded warranty, that would be extremely impressive.

 

Awesome warranty service!

 

Only if I can get a W510 back (which I highly doubt).

 

We get the 3-year warranty with full accidental damage coverage. We call it in, they have a box to us by next business day and we ship to the depot. Lenovo has been VERY good with their warranty repairs. We've got a few Dell's on our network, and we have next business day onsite repair. They are good too, but I've got an E4300 that I think is a lemon - 3 times they've been out to replace the motherboard on this machine. I'm fighting with them now to get a replacement

 

Wow, talk about an upgrade !
Never heard of that kind of service before !

 

hum.... Bytecraft screws up the repair on X200, so i get a new X201...