| Laptops and Notebooks Reviews : IBM |
 | AWESOME IBM T40 1.5GHZ 512MB 40GB CDRW/DVD WIFI XP PRO LAPTOP
Good Value for Money -" WORTH IT"!! -- 2009-12-03
I wanted a laptop for programming and browsing . I have being doing programming in my office using T30 think pad for past 2 years. I see that IBM thinkpad are sturdy and have excellent quality. There fore i decided to go for a refurbushed laptop( as my budget was low) .
The laptop was in good condition( No Scratch marks). I am very happy with this purchase.
Awesome Laptop -- 2009-02-20
The IBM T40 Centrino is definetly an awesome laptop and I'm happy with my purchase. IBM's have always been a great laptop and I wouldn't switch for any other computer...ever.
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 | IBM Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Ultra Portable Laptop Intell Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4ghz, 4gb Ddr3 Pc3-8500 Ram,320gb Hdd, Fingerprinter, Bluetooth, Wifi, Webcam, Trackpoint, 12"lcd, Window 7 64 Bits, up To 6.5 Hours 9 cell Battery.
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 | IBM Lenovo : T30 Laptop - Refurbished
Great Laptop -- 2008-11-11
I have owned and used the IBM Thinkpad over the years. Definately one of the best laptops I've used. I would recommend it to anyone.
Mandee Burt
Bruma's Gift shop
www.brumasgiftshop.com
Avoid IBM Laptops T30 & T41 and any IBMs for that matter. -- 2008-11-10
Purchased both of these and had these for less than two years. Paid 600.00 for the T41 and 400.00 for the T30 at Budget Computers in Portland Oregon a big reseller of these. Well we are now finding out that there is a design flaw in these. Apparently the newer IBMs have a cage around the video card to prevent these heavy laptops from shearing the video card from the motherboard if you pick it up with one hand. But even with the new cages it can shear off from what I am told. Both of the IBM laptop video cards are failing. IBM won't recall these or repair these. IBM was bought out by company in Hong Kong and from what I can tell on the internet the products are not good and IT managers are finding out the hard way just as I have. But the fact that they changed the design pretty much admits to the poor design. Budget Computer plays dumb and says if they knew about the defect they wouldn't have sold it to us. But at the time we were in for another issue on one of them two days before the warranty expired they had kind of mentioned it under their breath saying they hoped this one was ok. So they knew. I guess someone is suing them right now. The did offer to take 200.00 off and sell us another IBM T42 or R51 for another 300.00. They omitted the part that some of the T42s still have the same poorly designed motherboards as the T41. Will never buy again from Budget Computer nor IBM. I had done all my home work and everyone said IBM made these stout laptops but I do not consider it a good investment by any means. All I can say is that it is timed obsolesence or lazy product development. Resellers like Budget Computer makes me want to avoid middle man altogether. I would not by another refurbished laptop from reseller again. Budget also ghosts the software onto the machines and never provides software disks and it is far better to have the software to fix issues. Always get the disks for software for your machine. You are not getting a deal at Budget. I even emailed the CEO of IBM and never heard from them. IBM even has a 1-800 complaint line separate from customer service, if that is not telling I don't know what is. The complaint line takes you to India from the sounds of it. The customer support and tech support in Georgia was not that good either. They kept transfering me endlessly. I was so disappointed at their customer support and they were poorly trained. I wish I could find a laptop that really hold us to being moved around. Panasonic makes these supposidly tougher ones but they want 3K! Can't anyone make a 600.00 laptop that is light enough and tough enough that it doesn't bend the motherboard under normal use?
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 | IBM ThinkPad T41 (2379DJU) Laptop (1.60 GHz Pentium M (Centrino), 256 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Combo)
Excellent unit, but suffers minor failures often -- 2009-05-18
(a) Best keyboard ever made for laptops, (b) Decent speed, runs Office 2007 O.k., (c) Acceptable graphics (ATI 7500) or good graphics (ATI 9000 / 9600 / FireGL, the latter 2 can play Far Cry 1.0), (d) Thinklight is very useful on overseas plane flights, (e) fits perfectly on all airplane tray tables, (f) Outstanding battery life with CD-battery + 9-cell (5-6 hrs if you dim the screen), (g) It actually sleeps and wakes up properly unlike 50% of all laptops, and (h) You can just grab it and run to a conference room, yanking it out of the minidock, and it will sleep properly, unlike newer (T60, T400) machines where you have to hit a key first !!
I have used about 4x of these machines at work over the past 6 years. I just got my 4th machine so each machine lasts about 2 years. The typical failure is a really bad/sticky key (1st), a failure of some buttons on the synaptics track pad (2nd), a hard drive failure (3rd), or a failure of the power-port male plug, making it difficult (but not impossible) to charge the unit. With the exception of the hard drive failure, NONE of the failures were catastrophic "I cannot do any work right now" type of failures, so the system is robust.
Excellent laptop -- 2009-01-04
Back in 2004 I did quite a bit of research before settling on a T41 (from newegg.com). I got more RAM for 768M total. Over four years later it is still going very strong.
Great keyboard, light (even today), thin (even today), fairly fast, well-built screen tilting mechanism. Quiet, doesn't heat up too much.
If you're a vi user, you probably won't like the position of the Escape key (you can remap it to F1).
It took about three years for the battery to become unusable (I recently got a new one for about[...]).
The built-in wireless antenna stopped working and I got a new one from Lenovo support (for free, it was still under the 3-year warranty), but the old one fixed itself as soon as the replacement arrived and has been working now for a few years since.
The left 25% of the space bar don't produce a space when pressed --- started happening after around three years.
The left button on the lower mouse controls stopped working --- started happening after four years.
I've been using a Macbook Pro for work, and every time I open the T41 now, it's such a relief to be able to tilt the screen as far back as I want.
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