The curse of the failing ThinkPad
by Runt on July 11th, 2008
To combat this affect, I decided to invest in a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad about a month ago. The main aim of using the ThinkPad, was to aide my online money making ventures. I think it has had the opposite result though. The switch from OS X to windows XP has been a nightmare for me and the “cherry on top” is that my brand new notebook seems to be dying a slow painful death.
About 2 weeks ago, I noticed that the screen had developed 2 dead pixels. While these were annoying, they didn’t affect me too much. I also noticed that the screen was getting unusually hot. Even though, I wasn’t subjecting the notebook to any really processor or graphics intensive tasks. When I booted up the notebook last night, I noticed that the amount of dead pixels have no multiplied to about 12. This has now become a problem, being in Thailand and not speaking much of the language has led to even more problems. The store I bought it from simply referred me to the Lenovo helpline; they in turn referred me to a service centre consultant who can not speak any English.
Well it looks like my weekend will be spent personally visiting the IBM service centre and using a series of hand gestures to explain the problem. Oh, what joy…


(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
July 13th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Did you managed to get it fixed. I’ve heard that ThinkPads have excellent support. Let me know what your experience was like because I’m thinking of getting myself a new X-series ThinkPad.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
You should have gone with Dell. My XPS has never let me down. Dell makes great notebooks. Stay away from the Inspirons though…
July 17th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
The ThinkPad is a great machine. If it weren’t for the dead pixels I would love it.
July 20th, 2008 at 5:00 am
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October 3rd, 2008 at 1:04 am
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