Thinkpads Forum

A major IT website in China posted an article today claiming that T60/X60 has a defective layout in their motherboard which had to be fixed with a extra wire on the back of the board.

http://doc.intozgc.com/200604/27/00085573.shtml (page 1)
http://doc.intozgc.com/200604/27/00085573_2.shtml (page 2)

According to their analysis, the wire you see in the picture is done officially in the factory. The chip is related to power supply. The author questions Lenovo's promise on quality control. He said such a design flaw should never have appeared in a thinkpad. They opened 2 T60 and 1 X60. All had the same wire in the same location.

Can anyone here confirm this?

(I do not guarantee that my summary above is an accurate translation.)

I don't think that's so unusual for first generation printed circuit boards.

True, but has this ever happened in a thinkpad before?

First of all,
it is not good, in motherboad to have an extra wire.
however, while it costs Lenovo additional time, and human power to
modify the PCBs, it almost costs nothing to end users.

Secondly,
there are lots of reviews, or reports, news coverage coming from
mainland China on the internet,
trust me, quite lots of them are not from their firsthand tests.
(this one maybe is firsthand field try)
you can see quite lots of pictures or reviews directly copy from some famous worldwide websites----from notebook to basketball shoes, they often copy, modify, and translate, then become their coverage.

Anyway, i believe it will hurt lenovo, and it will be fixed pretty soon, and easily,,,,and I believe the root cause is from problematic IC or misplaced IC, trust me, it is no big deal to end users and makes almost no ill effect under normal warrenty condition.