Buyers beware of Lenovo laptops

[rm]

I have been very pleased with my T61 and have written a few reviews and articles about it, as well as numerous forum posts and emails encouraging others to buy it. Just a couple of days ago a reader of one of my reviews sent me an email asking me some questions about the T61 and the responses I gave him made him go ahead and make the purchase. However, all that is now in the past.

A friend of mine wanted me to convert a file for her from one format to another, m4a to ogg. On my desktop machine I can easily do that by playing the file with VLC and recording the output in Audacity, which then allows me to export it as an ogg. What a surprise to learn that I can not do that with my beloved T61 because it has been intentionally crippled!

At least that is what I am lead to believe from the following discussion threads:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=52527
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic...highlight=poll

Until this issue is resolved, if at all possible, I will discourage one and all from purchasing Lenovo laptops. I have updated all my reviews to reflect this.

I know that this may not be important to a lot of you, but if I had known about this issue I would not have purchased the T61. I think that there may be others out there like me. That is why I am sounding the alert.

Note from Admin: Old news already under discussion in multiple threads. Use one of them. Locking duplicate thread.

[Temetka]

This is terrible (re: T61 sound).

However there has to be an old-school solution.

Can you copy the files to say an MP3 player, hook it up to the mic port and hit record?

Also the second link doesn't work.