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What is the standard warranty of a Thinkpad X301 2774?

In this overview you can check the standard warranty info associated with a specific type of your model. But it's not up-to-date.

In this overview, specific about the X301, the warranty info is not detailed enough (the same goes for the datasheet).

Parts exchange, depot repair, or on-site service depending on machine type
1 year, 3 years, or 4 years for the system
1 year for the battery

I don't know where to find it elsewhere.

Not sure what the "standard" warranty is but you can just enter your serial number into the website and get a specific warranty.

Lenovo Support Warranty Status: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... yle=lenovo

Thanks, but I am not looking for the warranty status of a specific laptop. I'm curious about the standard warranty that comes with this type of X301 (e.g. one, three or four years).

I have run across two 2774 X301's. Both were CTO ThinkPads and both had three year warranties that as far as I can tell were not upgraded from a lesser term. I know a sample of two isn't a great sample set.

Brad

Brad wrote:I have run across two 2774 X301's. Both were CTO ThinkPads and both had three year warranties that as far as I can tell were not upgraded from a lesser term. I know a sample of two isn't a great sample set.

Brad

Ok. Not quite conclusive but it points to a three year warranty .

P.s.: I don't think the CTO addition has any relevance, based on this list

Had to dig deep at ibm.com but here's what I found:

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bi ... anguage=en
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/ ... 08-967.PDF (a .PDF of the same announcement)

Warranty period

System hardware - One year on parts and labor (machine type 4182)
System hardware - Three years on parts and labor (machines type 2774)
System battery - One year

edit: And here's one for the 2776 and 2777 model types:

http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/ ... 08-504.PDF

Warranty period

System hardware: One year on parts and labor (machine type 2777)
System hardware: Three years on parts and labor (machine type 2776)
System battery: One year

[censored] you're good.

I have my answer, you have my appreciation .

Thanks!

You're welcome! But it's knowing how to format the proper Google search that's important. These files can be found using this search string at google.com:

2774 thinkpad x301 standard warranty years filetype:pdf site:ibm.com
(substitute 2774 with 2776 to find the other file)

Since IBM has done a good job of publishing .PDF files of their system announcements and Google has done a good job of crawling web sites, finding this information is possible. "filetype:" restricts the search to a specific type of file and "site:" to the given domain name.

Yea I noticed sometimes Google (using the site:... specification) is better than the default search of a certain website. Searching by file-type is new to me. Good tip!