Comments on: Out of Box Experience Rant- Lenovo ThinkPad T400 http://www.made2mentor.com/2010/01/out-of-box-experience-rant-lenovo-thinkpad-t400/ Data Warehousing, Microsoft Business Intelligence, and Other Cool Stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: I am a PC… For Now. | Made2Mentor http://www.made2mentor.com/2010/01/out-of-box-experience-rant-lenovo-thinkpad-t400/comment-page-1/#comment-8232 I am a PC… For Now. | Made2Mentor Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:49:20 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2628#comment-8232 [...] Out of Box Experience Rant- Lenovo ThinkPad T400 [...] [...] Out of Box Experience Rant- Lenovo ThinkPad T400 [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://www.made2mentor.com/2010/01/out-of-box-experience-rant-lenovo-thinkpad-t400/comment-page-1/#comment-8065 Andrew Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:03:17 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2628#comment-8065 Dude, that Bullwinkle ref is hilarious. Dude, that Bullwinkle ref is hilarious.

]]> By: Cameron Mergel http://www.made2mentor.com/2010/01/out-of-box-experience-rant-lenovo-thinkpad-t400/comment-page-1/#comment-8064 Cameron Mergel Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:27:53 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2628#comment-8064 Ouch! I'm just shaking my head. Well at least you have a good attitude. You're making lemonade out of your lemon. Ouch! I’m just shaking my head. Well at least you have a good attitude. You’re making lemonade out of your lemon.

]]> By: Brent Ozar http://www.made2mentor.com/2010/01/out-of-box-experience-rant-lenovo-thinkpad-t400/comment-page-1/#comment-8063 Brent Ozar Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:01:01 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2628#comment-8063 HAHAHA, the impaired key thing is hilarious. I used to buy refurb laptops because I found them to be more reliable than normal ones - at least they'd gone through more testing than the regular ones! My favorite out-of-the-box experience so far is the Lenovo tablet sitting next to me. I bought it in Sweden where almost everybody speaks English, and I thought the laptop would at least let you pick the language on bootup. It's Europe - people speak all kinds of languages, and surely laptop mfrs wouldn't build a separate box per country. Not only was it hard-coded to Swedish (and you can't change languages in XP unless you installed the multilanguage version, and Lenovo didn't) but also the power plug was exclusive to Sweden. I flew to another country the next day, and the power cable didn't work. Thankfully I had the big battery version... HAHAHA, the impaired key thing is hilarious. I used to buy refurb laptops because I found them to be more reliable than normal ones – at least they’d gone through more testing than the regular ones!

My favorite out-of-the-box experience so far is the Lenovo tablet sitting next to me. I bought it in Sweden where almost everybody speaks English, and I thought the laptop would at least let you pick the language on bootup. It’s Europe – people speak all kinds of languages, and surely laptop mfrs wouldn’t build a separate box per country. Not only was it hard-coded to Swedish (and you can’t change languages in XP unless you installed the multilanguage version, and Lenovo didn’t) but also the power plug was exclusive to Sweden. I flew to another country the next day, and the power cable didn’t work. Thankfully I had the big battery version…

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