Jan 15

Many of my readers would have read my initial thoughts on Lenovo 3000 Y410, so here I am almost a year on with some of my mixed thoughts on it. First major performance hardware wise its been good. The only gripe was the dvd burner which has to be replaced because of its awful noise but the replacement became a joke when the service center guys replaced it with a combo drive . After some minor hassling with Lenovo Support I got it replaced at my office itself since the nearest Lenovo center is 70 kms away. Now I’ve problem with card reader which I think has some broken part (think its my fault) which I hope to get it replaced. I am also hoping to get a 2 year warranty extension for Rs. 5,500/- (110$) which doesn’t cover battery and adaptor mainly in lieu of the problems I had this previous months.

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(Photo taken with my K660i)

Even though I didn’t this type of problems with my Acer TravelMate , the Lenovo build quality has so far been quite excellent and their service support seems impeccable. And this also been a year with Windows Vista Home Basic which came preloaded with it . I haven’t even formatted it once even though its sometimes Buggy behaviour has tested my patience more than once in this past year. I was thinking about upgrading it to Home Premium but it sounds expensive and the ever increasing news of Windows 7 and various Linux flavors like Ubuntu, Fedora has made me think twice. If you have your own thoughts / issues to share with please do post your comments :-)

What would I wished my lenovo 3000 y410 had : A internal microphone, a faster processor and to top it all a graphics card [ wishful thinking I know :-) ]

Related Sites: www.lenovowarranty.co.in

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Apr 18

This week has been crazy with lots of work (& in different types too)…anyway after almost 2 months with my IdeaPad , I got the 2GB DDR2 Kingston RAM (KTL-TP667/2G) after lots of delay. Couldn’t install myself anyway my computer service engineer installed it effortlessly ..viola !!! now my Ideapad has got 2 more gigs to run Vista and all other apps I throw at it now runs more smoothly, I should say making me :-)

Lide25And one more gadget I bought was a affordable Canon scanner priced at 2,700 (67$) called CanoScan Lide 25.What impressed me most is that its USB powered so only one cable to clutter my work area and its quite slim and light. But on the other hand it feels fragile. Anyway vista easily detected it and I installed the software CD which came along with it. Tried scanning some black & white photos, the result was good. It seems this has a document to pdf scanner but still haven’t tried it yet. But as far as the verdict goes, it seems a Good Buy.

Last but not the least i was skeptical whether my ideapad would run with 1 + 2 GB DDR2 667 Mhz RAM ..but as of now it runs perfectly. And now the Windows Experience Index base score has been bumped up from 3.0 to 3.4

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