Ritual noise.

[reddragdiva]

• Don't buy a Lenovo laptop.

bmovie tonight! King's Cross is the nearest station — just come out of King's Cross Thameslink and cross the road instead of going around the corner.

Met rosefox, sinboy and weegoddess for breakfast this morning. Authentic British grease, just the thing for tourists. I stopped in Camden on the way back and got tights and socks for this evening, some second-hand CDs and Skyshaper by Covenant (two-disc edition with the 42-minute noisewank). Nice album.

My camera tonight will be the Ixus 50 as usual; I'm also bringing the PowerShot A40, a card reader and a battery charger for elevenwords.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That Lenovo whinge site sucks; all the complaints are out of order.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

That's 'cause it's not a whinge site, it's some Joe's blog with a search run over it on "Lenovo" and the results are coming back sorted by "relevance".

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Eww, "relevance".

[sbp.livejournal.com]

My ~18 month old T43 is fine so far, boots both windows and Kubuntu, bought it new. But had I spent three grand on a laptop, I'd expect it to be bombproof pretty much.

Back when I was laptop shopping, Apple hadn't made the switch to Intel, so the powerbooks were comparatively underpowered. These days I might well have gone for one. With a US keyboard (don't like the UK return key shape).

[rosefox]

No B-Movie for us; too wiped out by a long day and a long week. Sowwy. *( Was lovely to see you this morning.

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

I've had a couple of Lenovo laptops now, both personal and work (disclaimer: I work for IBM). My work laptop has never had a hiccup and runs smooth as silk.

My old personal laptop (which A. is using now) has had a multitude of horrible problems -- blue screening, CD+RW failures, bad memory, etc. Every time I send it back for repair, it inevitably takes them two or three tries to get it right, and they fuck up something else during the repair.

However, I've never paid a cent in shipping charges, I've always managed to get a human being on the phone within 5 minutes, and the turnaround time for repairs has been efficient and fast. Just not, well, good. (This is in the US)

The nice thing about Lenovo is that you get an ironclad, no-questions-asked 3-year warranty standard on every machine they sell. The bad news is that, if you happen to get a bum laptop, you wind up using it quite frequently. :(

[reddragdiva]

In this case the problem isn't that he got a lemon, it's that he got the runaround. Perhaps "don't buy one in the UK."