I Ordered!!!!

I just placed the order for a R61. 14 inch. i wanted a 14 inch laptop and dell was more than the IBM. Im so happy i saw the deal. here are the specs.

7742CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
08/30/07 $657.90 $657.90
42X2725 SBB INTEL2DUO PROCESSOR T5450
42V8012 SBB MS WIN VISTA HOME BASIC
42W7293 SBB MSWINVISTA H-BAS32 US ENG
42X1670 SBB 14.1"WXGA TFT,W/ CAMERA
42X0932 SBB NVIDIA QUADRO NVS 140M MEDIACARD
41W2057 VBB 512MB PC2-5300 667MHZ1DIMM
42V8195 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH
42W7032 SBB ULTRANAV(TRCKP+TOUCHP)
42V8709 SBB 120GB HDD,5400RPM
42V8716 SBB DVD-R8XMAX,ULTRBAY ENH
41W1685 SBB 11ABGWIFI WL LAN USEULAANZ
42V9339 SBB 7 CELL LI-ION BATERRY
39T6442 SBB COUNTRY PACK NORTH AMERICA
27R1769 SBB PSTN CABLE
42W7087 SBB LP,US ENGLISH

I wanted a 8400gs and thats exactly what IBM has, i got it with a camera ( friends are going out of state for college wanna keep in touch). Im gonna buy 2gb of ram for it soon.

just sharing my thoughts.

i love the design.

 

gratz on your purchase!

 

why the hell did you choose t5450? t5470 has same price.

 

How about this?

 

I'd upgrade the screen, unless you have sight problems - quoted from somewhere else.

seriously, upgrade the screen.

 

I chose the WXGA+ screen and the total after discount came to $661.50!

BTW OP, I would've chosen the fingerprint reader instead of the 7 cell battery since you can always purchase the battery at anytime but you cannot add the FP reader afterwards.

 

???

why it's cheaper?? downgrade the OS?

 

Nope I didnt. Strange!

 

That can't be it. double check.

 

i didnt chose the 5470, cuz its 1.6mhz and i figured 1.66 would be better. The 800mhz fsb really doesnt make a diff to me. I am having second thoughts because i got the Quadro atfirst i wanted it, but now i kinda feel like i shoudnt have bought it and isntead should have gone with the integrated x3100.

what do you think?

 

I wouldn't lose any sleep by choosing the Quadro. Better to have and not need than need and not have!

 

Configured System
09/13/07 $661.50 $661.50
Sbb Intel2duo Processor T5470
Vbb Ms Win Vista Home Premium
Sbb Mswinvista H-prem64 Us Eng
Sbb 14.1wxga +tft,w/ocam
Sbb Nvidia Quadro Nvs 140m Mediacard
Vbb 512mb Pc2-5300 667mhz1dimm
Sbb Keyboard Us English
Sbb Ultranav(trckp+touchp) +fingr
Sbb 60gb Hdd,5400rpm
Sbb Dvd-r8xmax,ultrbay Enh
Sbb 11abgwifi Wl Lan Useulaanz
Sbb 4 Cell Li-ion Baterry
Sbb Country Pack North America
Sbb Pstn Cable
Sbb Lp,us English

 

nice firestarter you ordered one too? looks good. i got the 7cell battery to accompany the quadro. still debating lol. i mean i could drop the price by a good amount. drop the 120gb for 60gb and quadro for x3100 and drop the price by 120 bucks. man im a cheap ass

 

Yeah I finally gave in to the nice deal. You can drop the 7 cell, HDD and GPU or just keep the GPU. You'll still save some money.

 

Hi,

it's totally up to you.

for me, I don't game at all. the quadro will just produce heat and burn battery. x3100 is good enough for me, even the gma950 is enough for what I am doing...

up to you

 

nice machine.

 

Thanks man.

BTW my est shipping time is Sept!! WTF? oh well at least it's not Sept '08. lol

 

I ordered today too, here's my spec:

1 7742CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
09/13/07 $825.00 $825.00
42X2726 SBB INTEL2DUO PROCESSOR T5470
42V8012 SBB MS WIN VISTA HOME BASIC
42W7293 SBB MSWINVISTA H-BAS32 US ENG
42X1671 SBB 14.1"WXGA+TFT,W/ CAMERA
42X0932 SBB NVIDIA QUADRO NVS 140M MEDIACARD
41W2057 VBB 512MB PC2-5300 667MHZ1DIMM
42V8195 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH
42W7032 SBB ULTRANAV(TRCKP+TOUCHP)
42V8712 SBB 100GB HDD,7200RPM
42V8717 SBB CD-RW/DVD-R.24X24X24X8UB-S
41W1685 SBB 11ABGWIFI WL LAN USEULAANZ
62P6054 VBB INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN
42V9339 SBB 7 CELL LI-ION BATERRY
39T6442 SBB COUNTRY PACK NORTH AMERICA
27R1769 SBB PSTN CABLE
42W7087 SBB LP,US ENGLISH

I dunno why this says $825, I'm supposed to be billed for $794.86 with tax and shipped--that's what my confirmation says

same est. shipping date of 9/13, haha... hope it's sooner than that!

 

ESD SEPT = WXGA+

 

I believe the 5470 is Santa Rosa...the t5450 is not. Neither have visualisation.

 

No. Both are Santa Rosa. They may have different FSB, but that doesn't matter. Both use Socket P, which is exclusive to Santa Rosa.

 

"Santa Rosa will feature an all new Core 2 Duo chip with a number of enhancements over the outgoing processor. Like the Merom chip before it, the new Core 2 Duo will feature up to 4MB of on-die cache, but there are plenty of other changes. First up, the new chip utilises an 800MHz Front Side Bus, while the outgoing one was limited to a 667MHz FSB. This will speed up overall system performance, although there’s more to the new FSB than just its speed."

is this a Santa Rosa? Socket M??

http://processors-retail-box.compon...0-Processor-1-66GHz-2x1MB-667MHz-FSB-Socket-M

 

YES......the Santa Rosa platform has the benefit of offering a 800mhz FSB but that doesn't mean every CPU for that platform has to take advantage of it.

Since you don't believe me:

 

I got confused somewhere along the line. must have been an inacurate post- I'm sure.

I appreciate the clarification.

 

it has been canceled.@!!!! im pissed off is there anything i can do? i just got an indian guy who told me he was sorry about the inconvenience!!! wtf. any coupons or discounts i can get? because my card was charged with the money, so the 660 bucks is not available for me to use!!!!


this is stupid! they shoudl honor their mistake!

 

LOL...should've gone with T61 instead

 

What is this?

Why do you say Indian?

What difference does this make, Indian?

What is your name?! Did you just speak with Tushar... hmmm?



:laugh:

 

I'm not sure as to the logic of honoring their mistakes. I don't think that's part of the corporate mentality, nor should it be, IMO.

Nonetheless, I'd be annoyed too, this morning, were this to happen to me.

Even more so, when it'll likely take a while for your card to be credited with the purchase amount.

btw, was this a pricing mistake, or has something else caused your deal to go kaput?

 

the guy on the phone said that "deal" was a online pricing mistake. all orders over weekend will be canceled. then he apologized and transfered me.

no im out 660 for 4 days.

 

btw please oh please, lets not start this thread up on racism or various forms of descrimination just because i said the guy was indian, it was only to imply that i did not speak with an american based customer service rep.

 

I am not sure we had the same problem, but this morning I called Lenovo to checkup something in my T61p order (7/20) and I was told by the sale rep that my order is invalid. While the online order status page showed it as "in progress"!!!
The sale rep explained me that they transitioned their ordering system to a new one and due to some transition problems, my order became invalid (some of the parts in my order were showing up as not existing). I was also told that if I want to fix the problem I would need to cancel it and make a new one. The sale rep also made sure that total price for the new order would be the same as original (with all the discounts I had).

So if I were you, I'd call Lenovo again during EST business hours. You might get "lucky" and get a different answer.