ThinkPad X220 Info/Ordering/Shipping Thread

Likely a short hold to make sure the bank said OK. I don't think they charge you til it ships.

Perry

 

If you choose one of the displays that has the 3x3 antenna, then you cannot add a webcam. Only the 2x2 antenna configurations (IPS or regular) allow for the camera to be equipped.

As for the site being down... that wasn't my experience this evening. I placed my order around 11:30pm EST, and all of the websites were working speedily for me, including the MasterCard website.

I followed the instructions in this post for my order: http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/568231-thinkpad-x220-info-ordering-shipping-thread-160.html#post7486398

BTW: my total was $880 USD

 

Yeah it sounds like that's probably the case. Thanks for the reassurance! I really hope the scheduled date is correct.. as I have to go out of town on the 11th

 

Ugh, the tracking info shows the the x220 is still in Louisville going through yet another Import scan, I don't see how it can be delivered to me by EOD Friday (5/13). This whole customs thing is a huge pain.

 

Ok, this is weird....my package at 1:14pm thursday said in transit...and then at 12:41Am eastern friday it says import scan....earlier thursday evening it said delivery changed to friday by end of day...then about 15 min ago it said changed to monday,....then i just refreshed and it says by end of friday again...this is so weird back and forth...what is going on?? Havent had a scan since 12:41am eastern time...cant wait to see the scan showing its leaving louisville...

 

Depending on where you live you may still get it tomorrow. For instance, UPS has a flight to Chicago at around 3:30am, and I'm sure there are ones to other hubs, such as NYC, LA, Texas, etc.

 

Thank you for that tip. Really a question as I have the 3 antennas in my W520 and it really helps with bad wifi signals.

But having skype capability is pretty cool.

Perry

 

Tonite has been a horrible experience with shop.lenovo.com. The site came back up but once you get to the cart it still won't let you check out.

I have been at this for 3 hours. I think an X220 in addition to my wonderful W520 is simply not in the cards for me. That is true both from the Mastercard site and the straight site which also has a nice sale on til Monday. (well a nice sale if the checkout part worked.)

Edit: The 4th hour worked. The site came back up and took the order. My only change was to order the Intel 160 GB SSD. With the 12% off employee pricing it was only $320 and at $2/GB that is cheaper than you can buy them anywhere now.

Perry

 

Hi guys, may I ask a question regarding buying X220i? Does anyone know what is the box dimension of x220i? I want to ship it to Finland using Shipito so I want to calculate the shipping cost.

Thanks!

 

Finally bit the bullet, thanks to the Mastercard deal + deciding to forgo 3yr warranty...for now.
$880 ($822 before taxes) for:
i5-2510, 250GB HDD, 4GB RAM, PremiumHD/IPS Screen, 720p Camera, Intel 6205 WiFi, Bluetooth, 9-cell battery, No Fingerprint Reader.
It's amazing just how much these upgrades cost. The cheapest x220i can be had for $200 less using the Mastercard deal, at $679 ($635 before taxes)...now that's a steal! It feels terribly indulgent to have spent $200 on non-essentials...OK, $135, the screen and the 9-cell battery were near the top of the selling points for this machine.

 

Intel Core i3-2310M Processor (2.1GHz, 3MB L3, 1333MHz FSB)1
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 6412
12.5" Premium HD (1366x768) LED Backlit Display, Mobile Broadband Ready, 2x2 Antenna
Intel® HD Graphics 3000
4 GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)8
No Fingerprint Reader
320 GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm4
ThinkPad Battery 29+ (6 cell)60
ThinkPad b/g/n10
Integrated Mobile Broadband - Upgradable65
4286 : 1 Year Depot Warranty - TopSeller7

I configured this using Mastercard Market Place cuopon and it costs $762.21 before tax.

Edit:

Converted to Euros and it costs 534.75 Euros. But VAT for EU is 23% though. Still didn't include the forwarding charges.

 

3:40am...louisville departure scan!!!!! Wooohoooo

 

do u guys know what fee is added to the final price rather than the before taxes price?

 

Why my machine is still in “Import Scan ”

 

3:33 AM Departure scan
Finally escaping that black hole.

 

Take a look of my status . Ordered on 5/3, est ship date 5/26 , shipped 5/12. . I may get it today ? How fast.

Scheduled Delivery Updated To: Friday, 05/13/2011, by 10:30 A.M.
Last Location: Departed -Louisville, KY, United States, Friday, 05/13/2011

Louisville, KY, United States 05/13/2011 4:37 A.M. Departure Scan
05/13/2011 3:07 A.M. Import Scan
05/13/2011 2:08 A.M. Arrival Scan

Anchorage, AK, United States 05/12/2011 3:42 P.M. Departure Scan
05/12/2011 1:24 P.M. Arrival Scan

Shanghai, China 05/12/2011 8:59 P.M. Departure Scan
05/12/2011 8:10 P.M. Export Scan
05/12/2011 8:10 P.M. Origin Scan

China 05/12/2011 1:23 A.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS

 

almost there now.
Middletown, PA, United State 05/13/2011 6:20 A.M. Arrival Scan

 

Mine shipped on the 11th (UPS first received it in their system yesterday actually) and it's already on the delivery truck today! Man I love living in Louisville

 

Nice, I get mine today also .

 

Out For Delivery!

 

Mines still on a plane...but I live on the west coast.

No complaining though, as long as it has escaped Louisville.

 

Thank, God!
I just wonder if my neighbor can sign for me, cause I may not at home on the day time.

 

Thank God indeed,
I told my wife this was coming today and she did not kill me.

More proof of the existence of God.

 

Nothing would make me happier than to be absolutely wrong on this.

Can anyone confirm if they have received an x220 tablet from Lenovo or any other distributor?

 

does anyone know this? since i'm not US citizen, i'm not very familiar with this

 

Woo hoo! UPS just called and is holding my package for pickup...just hours away from finally getting it now!

Apparently the address on the package only had my name and city...UPS called to get a street address for delivery and I said HOLD IT, I'LL PICK IT UP!

Good luck to everyone else whose X220 was held captive in Louisville for several days.

 

ordered 2 days ago .. and I got an email today saying that 1, or all of my shipment is going out today...nice.

 

nice , just got my x220

 

yeah, I hear ya. It'd be a sad sad disappointment to hear that I got the wrong information emailed to me, if the date really did get pushed back yet AGAIN.

On the TabletPCReview forums, people HAVE received their X220 tablets though! I believe directly from Lenovo. So they are out there somewhere...hopefully Cost Central will pull through soon. I'm not quite ready to say I regret ordering from CC because their price was unbeatable, but if it doesn't come within another week or two, I will be annoyed...

 

awww, never mind ... my little pouch shipped, not the laptop .

 

Just got mine also. Will be posting impressions/pictures/possibly even HD video later if I have time (got a newborn also, so estimates are tough these days ).

 

Any one that ordered through Amazon got their laptop shipped back to lenovo warehouse due to payment problem?

 

It depends on where you ordered it, where you want it to ship. Some states have taxes, some doesn't. And then some sites offer free shipping, others doesn't. If you wanted to ship it internationally, it may void your warranty, and you have to pay for the shipping fee, and finally the import tax of the country you want to receive it as well. From my assumption, you are from Vietnam aren't you ?

 

Hooray, I got a shipment notification ! But the order still shows "in process..." on the site.

x220t i7, Ordered 4/25, first estimated ship date was 5/18, pushed to 5/27. Not too bad.

 

Mine is on the truck for delivery...i did regular ground so itll come sometime today...charles20485, did u do 2 day shipping? Is that why it was guarenteed by 10:30 am?

 

yes I'm Vietnamese. I ask my friend who is living in US to help me order this X220. He said that the final price = price before tax + tax (to Newyork,~9.36%) + recycle fee is it correct?

 

I got shipment notification today! Ordered 05/09 estimated shipping date 05/25.

Lenovo X220. I7, IPS, 4GB RAM, 128 SSD, Bluetooth, 9 cell

 

True, though the recycling fee would just be 6$ or so. The problem is, if he flies back to VietNam and bring it with him, then that would be the final price. But if he just ships it via Fedex or DHL you may need to pay Vietnam's goods import tax, which is around 10% i believe.
Well, I am a Vietnamese too. Looking to order one in the US as well, but right now I'm in the UK.

 

well, thank for ur info why don't you order one in UK? isn't it better and faster for you?

 

I got mine today. This laptop has, by far, the best portable keyboard I have ever used. I actually prefer it to my Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000. I may have to buy the standalone Thinkpad keyboard for my desktop now.

I used to have an X200s, which had a good keyboard, but this one is significantly better.

 

My order placed 5/4 for the i5 model is still in process... How'd they manage to bypass mine completely? This is getting annoying.

 

Same here. Ordered 5/6 still in process. I doubt this guy order shipped, maybe its just an accessory that got ship first. But if it did, ill say great...for him of course.

 

Didnt order any accessories...I think it could have been the 128 SSD drive option. It changed estimate date from 17 days to 11 days.

Order date: 05/09/11
1 4286CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
0A69630 SBB INTCR I7-2620M PROC USB3.0
45M3090 VBB GENUWIN7PROFES.64
0A59804 SBB GEN WIN7 PRF64 ENGLISH
0A69642 SBB 12.5PRMHDLDBCLTDPYMBBBRDAN
45M4572 VBB 4GBPC3-10600DDR3 1333SODMM
45M4839 SBB KEYBOARDUS ENGLISH
0A69643 SBB FINGERPRINT READER
0A69657 SBB CAMERA, HD 720P
0A69655 SBB 128GB SLD STT DRV,SRLATA
0A68287 SBB NO MSSDRIVE
0A69647 SBB TP BATTERY 29++(9CELL)
41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA
0A68261 SBB BLUETOOTH 3.0
0A68255 SBB IC ADVN 6205 2X2AGN
44C7950 SBB INT WRLSSWDAREANTWRK UPGR
0A69659 SBB LANGUAGE PACK US ENGLISH
Status: Shipped on 05/13/2011 More info

 

Has anyone else had their order shipped with DHL? Mine apparently shipped 3 days ago, but to date the tracking number is returning nothing on the DHL website. Has anyone had experience shipping with DHL?

 

Well, that’s super fast shipping for your order.

About the delivery customs/warehouse clearance problems, I
guess it’s only some orders that are having this problem. My canceled
order, which was actually shipped on 05/11, it’s getting to me on Monday
and this is what I got from UPS…It’s a little crazy too, it appears
that it came to USA then back to China, also appear it went to Anchorage then
to Louisville, then back to Anchorage and again to Louisville. Who knows, maybe
the dates are messed up because of the time difference between China and USA.

Scheduled Delivery:
Monday,05/16/2011,By End of
Day

Last Location:
Departed
- Louisville, KY, United States, Friday,05/13/2011

Louisville, KY, United States
05/13/2011 4:30 P.M. Departure Scan
05/13/2011 12:10 P.M. Import Scan
05/13/2011 2:08 A.M. Arrival Scan

Anchorage, AK, United States
05/12/2011 3:42 P.M. Departure Scan
05/12/2011 1:24 P.M. Arrival Scan

Louisville, KY, United States
05/12/2011 12:57 P.M. Arrival Scan

Shanghai, China
05/12/2011 8:59 P.M. Departure Scan

Anchorage, AK, United States
05/11/2011 11:17 P.M. Departure Scan
05/11/2011 2:30 P.M. Arrival Scan

Shanghai, China
05/11/2011 10:34 P.M. Departure Scan
05/11/2011 9:12 P.M. Export Scan
05/11/2011 9:12 P.M. Origin Scan

China
05/11/2011 2:38 A.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS

 

My cancelled order came in today. Called Lenovo (spent at least 30 minutes on hold), got my shipping labels and RMA number. Now to drop it off at UPS on the way home since the shipping office closed at work already.

Kind of a shame I can't even open it to look (or I get hit with the restocking fee).

I don't understand why an order I placed on 5/1, cancelled on 5/4 - shipped on 5/9. While an order I placed on 5/4 to replace the cancelled one still hasn't moved, and they're still giving me an expected delivery sometime the week of the 25th. Heck, all I changed was the processor from the lesser i5 to the 2520...

 

Well, I just checked now on the IBM order status and it shows as shipped and tracking number provided (no info on the ups page yet). I also ordered the sleeve, but that hasn't been shipped yet, but who cares about that. Finally, I guess i'll be getting the laptop next week. Great.

I suggest you check the IBM status page now. good luck.

UPDATE: Now, I also received the shipment notification email from Lenovo.

 

Well just placed an order for the X220 tonight! Should be a good college laptop.

X220
I-5 2.5GHZ
4GB RAM
IPS Display (2x2)
320GB 7200RPM
WIN 7 PROF
No Fingerprint reader
720p Camera
9-cell battery
Intel-6205
2010 Office Student edition

Also got the 2yr-onsite+thinkpad protection warranty

All together shipped for $1200 with IBM employee discount and coupon. Would have been much cheaper without the warranty or microsoft word, but I figured for $130 the warranty was a pretty good deal and I need word for this summer (So can't wait and get it for free from school)

 

Mine just shipped!

i7 w/ 9-cell, ordered on 5/7/11 with an orig estimate of 6/1

 

I'm surprised at how fast mine went from order to ship (3 days?!).

Ordered 5/9/11: I7, 4GB, Win7Pro, IPS screen 2x2, Fingerprint Reader, 720p Cam, BT, 320GB 7200, 6cell, Intel 6205. $1109+tax

Plus a couple accessories that shipped separately like the sleeve, which just arrived today. The sleeve appears to be noticeably oversized at around 11.5" x 13.5", I was expecting a tighter fit.

Notebook shipped 5/12/11, UPS, due here in Los Angeles on 5/17/11.