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Are there any HN posters who manage fleets of Lenovo ThinkPads who can comment on their personal QC trend observations? I've read on forums that the QC is hit-a

Are there any HN posters who manage fleets of Lenovo ThinkPads who can comment on their personal QC trend observations? I've read on forums that the QC is hit-and-miss these days; when you get a good unit, it rocks, but woe be unto you if you happen to draw a short straw. Every manufacturer drops a lemon now and again. But I can't tell if Lenovo is letting their definitely-lax QC on non-ThinkPad lines leak into their ThinkPad lines, or if we're just hearing especially squeaky wheels. The recent trend seems to be if you want laptop reliability, you only select from the business-class product lines of the major OEMs, or Apple.

bluedino 8y ago
We have a bunch of T-series from 440 to 480 and 540 to 570, a few W and P series...they're all problem free except one screen replacement on an almost-3-year-old W540 (which I think was physical damage)
- lmilcin 8y ago
  I have been using ThinkPads, exclusively, since the year 2000. I never had ANY failure of any kind of any of my 5 machines. I currently use T440s which I bought immediately after it became available in 2013 and I wish it broke so I had a pretext to buy a new one, but the sucker will not die. I had to hack firmware to get LTE modem to work and the screen probably aged and is not as bright as it was. Other than that everything works perfectly.
- tibu 8y ago
  Same here. We have tons of ThinkPad from the T series which perform really good. We had some issues with the early X series but those were replaced by Lenovo.
starshadowx2 8y ago
We only have Thinkpads here and although it's an older model now, I've had to replace about 30 SSDs in the L460s. I don't know whether to say that's Lenovo's fault though, as they've all been Intel SSDs replaced with other brands. Other than that all of our T series laptops are great, the new L470s are great, desktops are great, etc.
Havoc 8y ago
>Are there any HN posters who manage fleets of Lenovo ThinkPads My employer has a couple thousand X1. No direct insight into stats but it seems fine from what I can tell. Haven't heard anyone complain in a while actually. (Unlike when we had Dell Inspirions - those were lemons). I'd give the X270 a miss too. The lack of full sized eth port is a little annoying on the x1s. Beyond that no complaints.

bluedino 8y ago

We have a bunch of T-series from 440 to 480 and 540 to 570, a few W and P series...they're all problem free except one screen replacement on an almost-3-year-old W540 (which I think was physical damage)

lmilcin 8y ago
I have been using ThinkPads, exclusively, since the year 2000. I never had ANY failure of any kind of any of my 5 machines. I currently use T440s which I bought immediately after it became available in 2013 and I wish it broke so I had a pretext to buy a new one, but the sucker will not die. I had to hack firmware to get LTE modem to work and the screen probably aged and is not as bright as it was. Other than that everything works perfectly.
tibu 8y ago
Same here. We have tons of ThinkPad from the T series which perform really good. We had some issues with the early X series but those were replaced by Lenovo.

starshadowx2 8y ago

We only have Thinkpads here and although it's an older model now, I've had to replace about 30 SSDs in the L460s. I don't know whether to say that's Lenovo's fault though, as they've all been Intel SSDs replaced with other brands. Other than that all of our T series laptops are great, the new L470s are great, desktops are great, etc.

Havoc 8y ago

>Are there any HN posters who manage fleets of Lenovo ThinkPads My employer has a couple thousand X1. No direct insight into stats but it seems fine from what I can tell. Haven't heard anyone complain in a while actually. (Unlike when we had Dell Inspirions - those were lemons). I'd give the X270 a miss too. The lack of full sized eth port is a little annoying on the x1s. Beyond that no complaints.