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Who will consider buying ThinkPad preloaded with Fedora Linux?

Last week i bought an e495 because it supports up to 32gb memory n price was good. However that came with aHD TN display.  Staring at it for 15 minutes itself i feel my eyes are painful. Any suggestion please?

Hello LowYat ThinkPad community,

I placed an order for a ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 last Thursday morning (23/7/2020), since the price with coupon is good enough. At the payment screen, I used my dad's UOB debit Mastercard, The Mastercard 3DSecure OTP code for the full value was requested, and I inputted successfully and order was placed. Then a while later my dad got SMS for RM159.8 (The 3 year warranty add on with the laptop), but no charge for laptop, so I checked the OVP tracking thing and it says there is a credit issue with the order, along with the seapayments@lenovo.com email. Turns out my dad's debit card is capped at RM 2000 by default, and he went to UOB to increase it, they said last Friday or this Monday the limit would be increased.

This Monday (27/7/2020), I called the support hotline, representative told me that in this situation, they will cancel the order, and I place a new one. No big deal I thought, so today (Tuesday), just like they said, order was cancelled, and the RM 159.8 they apparently charged will be refunded within 3-4 weeks (will have to check on that).

So I then made another order, and once again, they charged my dad's debit card for the warranty (this time RM 400-something because I added the accidental protection thing to the 3 years warranty upgrade), but did not for the laptop, and again, credit issue on the new order's OVP page. My dad said no call from bank, so I emailed mycs@lenovo.com and they replied, saying they would ping the seapayments team (no reply from them yet).

Any clues from past experience? If this goes on, I think I will just go for Dell XPS 15 as college intake is coming soon and I need a laptop.

Thanks for the reply...thing is, the seapayments person (Priyanka) replied and they just said the payment was declined for some reason. Again, no call from bank, apparently RM 400 was only deducted for the warranty, even when on their order page, they requested for the entire amount (laptop + warranty)? I will call them later this morning then, might as well cancel it if they can't do anything about it and I can go to a physical store and get the laptop instead, then upgrade myself.

Just one more question though, since I used a debit, how will the refund for the warranty they charged work? If I understand they are just holds, and the money should come back within a few weeks? Or did Lenovo actually take the money and they have to refund me? I see a couple Lenovo Forums threads mentioning that for debit they actually take the money and not just a hold.

Question, can both handle tasks like 20/30 word document file and alot of processing in Excel sheet?

My mac looking about 13/14gb everytime running it or maybe because my chrome took alot as well.

I just want to ensure some reliability that it wont break within 1/2 years down the road.

Apologies for my lack of technical knowledge when it comes to these details comparing between AMD INTEL, RAM and GPU

I posted this already in the Thinkpad review thread, but it makes more sense to go here.

Hello Thinkpaders, I'm a foreigner who's been stuck in KL since the start of MCO, but I've been loving Malaysia, so that's ok. The only problem is my Thinkpad has been having problems.

Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop in KL?

I'm guessing my motherboard may need some minor soldering work. I have a 1st gen X1 extreme which is working mostly ok except that one of the RAM slots is having issues. Most of the time it will not boot with both RAM slots filled. Sometimes, but rarely it will boot and work just fine until there's any light movement or shock (even typing on the keyboard), then it will crash. It seems like there is something that shouldn't be making contact shorting the system.

So again, I would appreciate any repair shop recommendations that can do more advanced board repairs. Thanks!

is it possible to ask for a complete replacement of lenovo laptop?

i currently have 1 X13 laptop, 6 months old, bought online from lenovo website.

it has 3 major issues now:

1) restart even though selected shut down.
2) randomly tells me "bluetooth not available in this device", ask me insert bluetooth adapter.
3) randomly tells me internet not available, ask me to use wifi adapter.

they previously changed motherboard already but still same thing. guess i got a lemon. any advice?