Those new Lenovo Notebooks

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who here owns lenovo 300 notebook?

THANK U FOR EVERYTHING GUYS!!!! I LIVE IN CANADA BUT I GOT THE FAN. LENOVO was so much like 40 bux. Bought a fan that fits in the R40 for 24 tax in! SO happy! Now the question.
Lenovo released those 300 notebooks... This means they gonna SCRAPE US "R" series notebooks? I am asking CUZ the PRICE is like cheaper then the R series.. NO R60 Wasn't the R series like the value "line up"?

IS lenovo 300 notebooks any good?? I betting they using the cheapest LCD panels out there
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I don't think Lenovo will discontinue the R series notebooks. I'm waiting to hear about the quality of the 3000 series also.

 

how the heck is this gonna work? 2 X "value" series. Wow.

 

Dell sells cheap business notebooks and cheap consumer notebooks. So does HP. This situation is really no different; Lenovo now has the beginnings of a consumer line along with its full business line of Thinkpads. I think it's a pretty good strategy for them, and it should definitely save Thinkpads from being 'consumerized' too much.

 

How is this GOOD. Ibm thinkpads not being CONSUMERIZED? I don't understand. Is lenovo gonna downgrade ibm products then? WHat is bad about consumerizing Thinkpads?

 

When people say consumerized what they are talking about is that a lot of the large OEM's have two notebook lines, a consumer line and a business line. With Dell its Inspiron (consumer) and latitude (business). The business line is almost always better built, better designed, more durable, and better warrantied. They are also correspondingly more expensive. IBM's Thinkpad's have traditionally been all business notebooks, with the more rugged construction and better engineering this suggests, but IBM (now lenovo) has an exceptional reputation for design and construction of the thinkpads.

The worry is that thinkpads will end up like inspirons (cheaply built plastic machines with a 1yr life expectancy), instead of being the rugged workhorses we all love.

 

it is already BECOMING cheaply built. Look @ the Z60s...

 

[sarcasm] Yeah, magnesium alloy roll cages SUCK. I wish I had a real man's case. A solid plastic case baby. [/sarcasm]

Maybe they're not up to T standards, but you're not paying the price for it either.

There's just no way you can begin to compare a Z series laptop to nearly any other companies' in terms of build quality.

 

Compare it to a IBM. Not A Lenovo. THE z60 quality still isn't as good as the older IBMS.

 

The Z60 laptops are IBM laptops. They were designed by IBM. They're probably made right beside T-series and R-series laptops.

And I'm afraid your allegations of poor build quality really lack credibility. Check out any of the three reviews on this website - the only person who complains even a tiny bit has clearly never used a Thinkpad before. I think I'll believe the people who can express their opinions coherently.

 

Trip couldn't be more right.

The Z60's are ThinkPad, designed by the same people who designed all the ThinkPads. They are built in the same place as other ThinkPads. And they share all the same high end design features as all the other ThinkPads. They are, for all practical purposes, widescreen T's!

I've read one guy commenting about the a gap in the lid closure, but I don't know what he's talking about. My T42p doesn't hermetically seal...I;m not sure why he thinks a Z60 should.

 

so you think that the z60s are as strong as they used to be? I looked at ones from staples and such. Maybe they buy cheap?

 

THERE Is a post about CREAKING.... HMMM

 

Any model from any brand has defect. Give Lenovo a break.

 

Rounded edges!!!! How the hell can they be like other thinkpads? They have infected the T & X series also with the plain Z series looks... this change is definitely not a good one.. not after IBM painstakingly developed and standardised the ThinkPad identity. It takes far more effort to make one.. and mron can walk in a destroy it.. and Lenovo did just that.

 

LOL I Just got my R40 back from fixing fan. I gotta give it back to them because the pcmcia cover thingy is put back wrong :-(. Lenovo has a ex dell guy. BAD