Comments on: Bye bye Thinkpad

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:57:56 +0000

thinkpad batteries

We’re looking for an alternative source of wholesale laptop battereis for the thinkpad x series.
thanks
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By: jessewright8

jessewright8 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:09:12 +0000

Hey Kalyan, I’ve bn following ur entries and photoblog for quite some time and just wanted to say thank u for ur dedication to just keep taking photos even though its ur passion! its so cool, ur my fave photographer. i live in australia and i’d love to do what u do when i get a bit older. Thanks for the inspiration How awesome is the wonder of nature and being able to capture it. c ya Jesse

By: admin

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:28:32 +0000

Re: Hello!

Hi Anusha,
Great to hear that you are into wildlife too. Keep it up

By: fox2mike

fox2mike — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:45:53 +0000

Oh, that’s not too hard. Atul just becomes a 3 year old and cries till they do something to stop him from crying

By: teemus

teemus — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:37:25 +0000

Time to buy The Real Thing (TM) – A MacBook Pro.

By: deponti

deponti — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:50:54 +0000

I would tend to agree with Atul, Kalyan. Alas, it does seem to work very often…kicking up this whole shindig of “NO! IT CAN’T BE! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS?” and frequently you will find that they climb down from the expensive branches of the repair tree…

I think it’s now a free market in the sense that the repair people try to see how much of charges you will stand, and bargaining is the order of the day. Negotiation is the name of the game everywhere. When I get my vac repaired, my UPS serviced….I use a mixture of indignation, cajoling, and plain talk, and NINETY FIVE percent of the time the amount is reduced. So now I feel that it is always worth negotiating. At worst, one can only get a “no” and then one pays the amount and gets the repair done, or leaves the dead gadget and goes on to another one… but it IS worth asking once.

By: noelladsa

noelladsa — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:32:53 +0000

I need special training on learning this technique of kicking up a horrendous fuss

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:08:11 +0000

Laptop

Have you considered switching loyalty? Try another "brand" it may be better!

By: jbritto

jbritto — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:39:08 +0000

Apparently, the IBM approach to repairing thinkpads is to keep replacing parts until it works.

This worked fine for me when they replaced the motherboard under warranty – but when the fan conked out a couple of years later (the dreaded ‘Fan Error’), it cost me some 5k to get it replaced. They returned the old fan too, and it looked like a connector had come loose and they never tried fixing it.

I’m still a hardcore thinkpad fan. Loving the X61 I got at work, maybe you should get one. Admit it, you secretly wouldn’t mind a new laptop

By: achitnis

achitnis — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:23:36 +0000

My personal feeling is that it isn't the motherboard.

Two years ago, I had a similar problem - 2 months after my 3 year warranty ran out. IBM said it was the LCD screen initially, then blamed the motherboard, then again the screen. In each case, the cost to fix was well over 30K.

I kicked up a horrendous fuss, and finally, they had another look at the machine, and it turned out to be a frayed rbbon connector. They replaced it (Rs.200) and that machine works great to this day.

There are third party repair people who take a more generic, unscripted approach to the troubleshooting process, I would check them out. Would be good if people could post some contact details for such places here. Unfortunately, the one place I have used in the past no longer exists.