These machines are of different breed, will last forever. The T series Lenovos come with 3 year on site warranty and usually retail from £900 £2000. Only 3 left appearenttly
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m5rcc
29 Mar 16#1
Not really three years warranty as they were bought in Aug 2015, but even so, very good machines.
ttbaxxx
29 Mar 16#2
every lenovo T series comes with special software that verifies warranty once you turn it on. I have 2 of them. Seller look reputable plus on ebay you have full money back guarrantee. The cheapest I found the same one is £599 online.
These are a steal at $449 even with 2 years warranty. I would never buy another brand laptop.
splatsplatsplat
29 Mar 16#3
Doesnt look like you can upgrade memory or hard drive from lack of access underneath?
Waterboy8535 to splatsplatsplat
29 Mar 16#4
Yes you can, you just remove the base cover complete
beenybops to splatsplatsplat
29 Mar 16#5
It is easy to remove the base to access the HDD and SODIMM slot. There are only 8 screws as far as I can remember. I think the first 4GB of memory is hardwired to the motherboard so you can add a single 8GB SODIMM to increase it to 12GB.
ttbaxxx
29 Mar 16#6
you can definitely upgrade, these laptops retailed for £1319 last year
liamf12
29 Mar 161#7
Hope they're better built than the last 2 lenovo's I've purchased. One lasted 3 weeks, I'm in the process of repairing the other one that's just over a year old. There's no metal reinforcement at all. Not a wonder it's falling apart.
Waterboy8535 to liamf12
29 Mar 161#9
What are you doing to them, throwing them off a building?
Our company buys masses of these after moving from Dell. They are business laptops and get absolutely hammered, yet have been faultless on the whole, and once the warranty ends they flog them off to staff for £60 each and give the proceeds to charity.
There's always a long queue of people wanting these.
Next month they're selling off the last of the T430 i5 laptops, then they'll start flogging off the T440 i7's near the end of the year. I always buy one for family members each time as although they are fugly, they are damn reliable
plap to liamf12
29 Mar 162#10
Are you sure those were Thinkpads? You can't compare business laptops like Thinkpads with consumer laptops which retail at £1k+.
All the Thinkpads I've worked on had (often magnesium) roll cages inside and don't fall apart, dropped mine on the corner and case cracked but still no flex on chassis.
These things are the old-fashioned Volvo's of laptops:
nothing fancy but they keep going forever (8hrs a day for 4 years getting carried around and travelling) and the failure rate is very low and when they fail it's easy to get them repaired
simont_space
29 Mar 16#8
Got a Lenovo from John Lewis 29th Nov 2013, screen went 27th November 2015. Good job JL give 2 yr warranty on laptops. Not sure I would buy one again at £750.
For the price and balance (?) of warranty price looks good,
littld
29 Mar 161#11
Warning T series can run very hot - i.e. too hot for a lap. Components burning our very common. ThinkPad is just a brand with a great TrackPoint and good keyboards but not the same build quality of old.
ttbaxxx
29 Mar 16#12
I still have a t41 that works, 10 years!!! bought a t520 for a friend 7 years ago still works fine. T series won't go wrong, they are expensive for a reason. Just bought a 440 last week with 8GB ram and SSD for £400 with 17 months warranty left on it, it's brilliant
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These are a steal at $449 even with 2 years warranty. I would never buy another brand laptop.
Our company buys masses of these after moving from Dell. They are business laptops and get absolutely hammered, yet have been faultless on the whole, and once the warranty ends they flog them off to staff for £60 each and give the proceeds to charity.
There's always a long queue of people wanting these.
Next month they're selling off the last of the T430 i5 laptops, then they'll start flogging off the T440 i7's near the end of the year. I always buy one for family members each time as although they are fugly, they are damn reliable
All the Thinkpads I've worked on had (often magnesium) roll cages inside and don't fall apart, dropped mine on the corner and case cracked but still no flex on chassis.
These things are the old-fashioned Volvo's of laptops:
nothing fancy but they keep going forever (8hrs a day for 4 years getting carried around and travelling) and the failure rate is very low and when they fail it's easy to get them repaired
For the price and balance (?) of warranty price looks good,