Shortage of SXGA+ T42?

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goka · #1 Post by **goka** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:56 am

I ordered a T42 in the beginning of September (a 2373-JXG which would be the same as a 2373-JXU in the states). The delivery was first said to be in a couple of weeks, maybe three. Then a date came, which was last Thursday. Today they say that it won't be delivered until the 27th of October.

Since it sounded a bit fishy, I called another distributer who told me that it wouldn't even be possible to put down an order for a 1400*1050 computer for another month or so, and when it was possbile, IBM wouldn't be delivering until December! The reason would be that IBM can't deliver enough 1400*1050 panels. His advice was to look at another screen resolution.

Anyone else heard about this? Do IBM have a hard time delivering T42s with SXGA+ panels? Is it just an European thing maybe?

Vasant56 · #2 Post by **Vasant56** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:33 am

I KNOW there's amajor shortage on SXGA+ flexviews, but I don't think there are on 14"ers themselves.

muffd · #3 Post by **muffd** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:09 pm

You should just cancel that order and maybe consider ordering your Thinkpad from www.newegg.com. They have them all in stock, ready to ship:)

Isaac000 · #4 Post by **Isaac000** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:47 pm

Well, when I ordered mine old T a few months ago, it was the same story given to me by my local campus computer shop.

Eventually, it did come in.

I would imagine it's true. To make them at that pixel density and (relatively) defect free is not fun. And if something happened that messed up a lot, there's quite a lead time to start a new lot.

n3il · #5 Post by **n3il** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:40 am

*Queue broken record* How about trying www.thinkpads.com ?

Email bill@thinkpads.com and see what he can offer...

goka · #6 Post by **goka** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:35 am

Well, a couple of hours ago I recieved a receipt from the online store saying that the computer had left their warehouse! I'm following the package online now, although I won't believe that it really is the computer I ordered until I actually sees it...

I made som fuzz about all this and called IBM Sweden yesterday. I guess they should be a bit worried when their partners gives totally different answers, which later proved to be all wrong since the computer probably is in my lap tomorrow.

Shortage of SXGA+ T42?

Shortage of SXGA+ T42?

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