Fuck you Lenovo…
Due to a rather untimely misfortune, I am currently shopping around for a new laptop to replace my beautiful yet bricked Thinkpad R51. Naturally, I’m opting for another Thinkpad, as I am horribly addicted to their solid construction, excellent reliability (not talking about the power module: la la la la la, not listening!) and fairly solid Linux support.
Unfortunately, IBM has sold off its PC division to Lenovo, and, as is usually the case with such acquisitions, the overall service suffers. In this case, the culprit is Lenovo Canada’s website.
For some god-forsaken reason, the executives at Lenovo Canada had decided to replace what is a clean and usable piece of online-shopping application with another less useful, buggy, and down-right eye-soring piece of crap. Alright, so crap is a little strong, but it is without a doubt an inferior application.
The R and T line of Thinkpads come in both the fairly standard SXGA, as well as the oh-so-sexy SXGA+ display standards. Having been exposed to and used the latter, I am afraid I can never go back, and have no choice but to give in to my 1400×1050 resolution addiction. Now, herein lies the problem: the Lenovo Canada online store does not indicate whether or not a certain laptop model is equipped with the former or latter. I searched high and low, but discovered nothing but a tibit saying how they were available, but not where from. Oh, and a bunch of pages that produced 403 errors. That’s right: the bloody website isn’t even fully operational.
Luckily for me, during my latest hunt, I had stumbled upon the old IBM shopping system. Hoorah!
Now, back to weighing my guilt for once again spending a lot of my parents’ money against my lust for a brand-spankin’ new Thinkpad T60.