Thinkpad X61 questions

I just received my new X61 and there are two things bothers me:

1) the 65w power adapter makes strange high pitch noise, especially when the machine is doing something which draws a lot of power (DVD-ROM spinning up, running CPU intensive programs, etc). I don't know if anyone else is having the same problem.

2) I can see a flat dark cable below the LCD (somewhere between the logo "X61 Lenovo" and the wifi LED at the bottom of the screen), which I assume is the cable connected from the video card to the LCD. I found the cable sits there without any cover/protection , which makes it very easy to be broken. I don't know if this is normal for X61 or there is something missing here.

Anyone?

Update: I called Lenovo and they sent me a new power adapter which works fine and quite.

 

When/where did you order? I'm still waiting on mine.

 

June 8th, the initial shipping date was 6/27, and was changed to 7/17, 7/22, but yesterday I received an email saying that it was shipped, and I received it this morning.

 

1. Nothing to be worried about. Same thing on X60-series. We have a few of them; some are noisy and some not. When the adapter is new, it usually sounds more than the older ones.

2. Scary, ha? ;-) They are pretty fragile. We do not have X61 laptops ourselves, but they are pretty similar to X60s (if you compare the pictures anyway..!)

 

You don't need to be worried about the exposed ribbon cable for the LCD. This is the same design on the X60s and I haven't read any reports of the cable being severed accidentally.

Just don't go haphazardly throwing ninja stars around or hold a box cutter while typing and you'll be fine.

 

That's fantastic. I ordered a day after you, June 9, hopefully it'll get here soon!

This is the regular X61, right? Mind posting your configuration?

 

It's a regular X61 and here is the configuration:

7675CTO CTO THINKPAD X61 1YDW
42V8012 SBB MS WIN VISTA HOME BASIC
42X0367 SBB MSWINVISHOMB32 US ENGLISH
42X0101 SBB 12.1"XGA TFT T7100
41W2057 VBB 512MB PC2-5300 667MHZ1DIMM
42X0133 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH
42X0753 SBB TRACKPOINT
42V9141 SBB 120GB HDD,5400RPM ATA 2.5"
41W1928 SBB THINKPAD X6 ULTRABASE
62P6054 VBB INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN
41W1501 SBB INTELPRO/WL3945ABGUSCNLAAP
41W1831 SBB 4CELL LI-ION BATTERY 2.6AH
41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA
27R1769 SBB PSTN CABLE
42X0202 SBB LANG.PACK_US ENGLISH
41W5675 SBB PKG W/ULTRABASE
42V8299 SBB 512MBPC2-5300 DDR2 667MHZ
42X1470 SBB CL.PLATE X61,WLAN BT
42V9665 SBB FCC, LABEL
42X0412 SBB GEO LBL US,WLAN BT
41W1982 SBB LOGO PLATE
42X0407 SBB MT 7675 SYSTEM LABEL
42X0948 SBB MECH MISC PARTS
42V7973 SBB MS LABEL (VISTA BASIC)
42X1233 SBB NEWINTELLAB_DUALCORE/CEDUO
42V8063 SBB MS WAU ENGLISH NA-U MODELS
39T6439 SBB BLUETOOTH W/ANTENNA

Anyway, I just can't stand the noise from the power adapter, and will call Lenovo on Monday. It's just so annoying. I put it 4 feet away and it is still louder than the hard drive+fan, I already have some headache after 1 hour of use. This X61 will be my wife's everyday laptop and if the noise can't be fixed I will have to return it and get her a Dell XPS.

 

Sounds good. My wife will be the one that uses this laptop and I'm sure she won't throwing ninja stars while typing.