Laptop Lenovo Y 330

[vertigo4u]

I am searching for a new Laptop and came across following Model:

Lenovo Y 330 - T3400

Dual Core 2,165 Ghz

RAM 2 GB

HD 320 GB

further Specifications

http://www.notebookspec.com/notebook/1757-...330++T3400.html

This Laptop uses DOS, but I would change it to my licenced Windows XP Professional

They told me, that Lenovo in Thailand is made by IBM and is very relieavble

I like this small Laptop, but I am not sure, if anyone has made good Experiences with this Brand

Thanks in Advance for sharing your Thoughts with me

[Gary A]

Actually Lenovo bought the IBM laptop business. The old IBM Thinkpads were bullet proof. My latest laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T43p. At two and a half years old, the main board died. It was replaced free of charge so the service is good. Make sure you get the international three year warranty. My old IBM Thinkpad 600 is still being used by a Thai friend of mine and it is probably ten years old. The keypad quit working but it works fine with a remote keyboard.

My friend bought a Toshiba at the same time I bought the Lenovo. It had a one year warranty and it died at thirteen months. He has had it repaired many times and has spent more on it than it is worth so I think Lenovo is better than Toshiba.

[sibeymai]

I'm on my third IBM ThinkPad laptop now after the main board died on my 4 1/2 year old R51. It worked for a year after being in a 100kmh accident when I rolled my pickup. Cost about 5,000 baht at Pantip to repair the main board so I keep it as a spare. Bought a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 several months ago to replace it. Now branded Lenovo instead of IBM, but still made in the same facory to the same specs as IBM were made for the last 15 years.

Not sure about the quality and spec of the Lenovo branded laptops, but a ThinkPad branded Lenovo is top shelf, especially the T series. R series are excellent value with the only major difference being the metal chassis/frame in the T series against plastic in the R series.

3 years international warranty is the way to go with a company who can back it up worldwide. A far cry from my SVOA desktop which in the first year has had the optical drive replaced, the LCD replaced, mouse replaced, hard drive failure, audio failed, windows reload at least 3 times (3 days to reload everything), been to the repair shop 3 times because it hangs for no reason and is still not working properly. A piece of utter <deleted> !

I'd expect the Lenovo to be just as good as a ThinkPad. The only difference appears to be the Lenovos seem targeted at multimedia users such as Sony Vaio and Compaq buyers whereas the ThinkPads are more targeted at business users.

Edited March 22, 2009 by sibeymai

[PattayaDavid]

I'm on my 3rd ThinkPad; the first one being a 2000 model A20P, strong as a tank and still works like new, but with a P3 750 processor, I can't do much with it so I use it primarily for downloading movies and other programming from torrent sites. I replaced it with a T40p, Pentium M 1.6Ghz processor, great computer until it died. I still don't know what is wrong with it; it just continuously shuts down by itself. It seems that the T40 series had motherboard problems especially with proper soldering of the GPU. Last year, during my vacation trip to the US, I bought my first Lenova, a T61, and it seems to have the same build quality of past IBM's except that I'm not so satisfied with the display quality. It has backlighting leakage, visible on a blank screen and during normal usage, the display screen is not as bright as past IBM's and particularly the one Dell laptop I had previously owned. Battery life is also not that good.

I don't know much about the Y series, but I think it is part of a special packaging to keep the price down.

[tomartoh]

I have had the Lenovo Idea Pad y510 for over a year now and not had any problems with it. When i bought it i thought it had best specification for the money and now i am thinking of buying a Lenovo netbook sooner or later as well.

The Lenovo is made in China

[SpoliaOpima]

I have a Lenovo 300 I bought two years ago. The C drive is full - is there anywhere in Bkk that could replace the C drive with a larger one?

[beano2274]

why not check out

cnetasia.com

you can compare notebooks on that site

[webfact]

I have a Lenovo 300 I bought two years ago. The C drive is full - is there anywhere in Bkk that could replace the C drive with a larger one?

you will find a lot of stores in the major IT malls i.e. Fortune, Pantip, Seri where you can do an upgrade.

Let me remark you can only upgrade to the HDD capacity which is supported by the motherboard!

Edited May 16, 2009 by webfact

[SpoliaOpima]

I have a Lenovo 300 I bought two years ago. The C drive is full - is there anywhere in Bkk that could replace the C drive with a larger one?

you will find a lot of stores in the major IT malls i.e. Fortune, Pantip, Seri where you can do an upgrade.

Let me remark you can only upgrade to the HDD capacity which is supported by the motherboard!

Thanks. Is there any easy way to look at my system and tell what the HDD capacity is?