i think it depends on where you are, last year when buying mine id heard of terrible delays that would no doubt be made worse by my ordering on black friday, bu

i think it depends on where you are, last year when buying mine id heard of terrible delays that would no doubt be made worse by my ordering on black friday, but 7 short days later it arrived with no QC issues at all, i can only put this down to the fact that im in the UK and maybe the units sent here come out of a different production plant i had 2 systems from them last year and both were free of QC issues and arrived within 10 days of ordering. we do pay for this privilege though as thinkpads are drastically more expensive here than in the US (my X1C6 was almost double the US price for the same model)