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You mean they've shipped it one week earlier than announced?
Would be cool, my shipping date is Oktober 6th

reforminded wrote:Sweet! I just got shipping notification--a whole week early!

I'm not surprised and happy for you. Shipping times are one of Lenovo's greatest weaknesses, as they run long, short, and everything in between. Keep us posted, as you're right the waiting is enough to make one crazy....

ian12345 wrote:

hart22 wrote:It looks like a very nice machine.

Just a few comments:

I believe the flavor of Vista you ordered is 32-bit. Unless they've changed policy currently Lenovo does not ship Ultimate 64-bit pre-installed systems except on the workstation line, such as the W700. When you get your system, windows will report 4 GB of memory installed. However, the OS will only be able to utilize 3 GB of that memory, owing to the 32-bit OS limitation. The report of 4 GB in windows despite 3 GB addressable is a Microsoft implemented reporting change in SP1. If you want to use all of your memory you'd need a 64-bit OS; your Ultimate license key on the bottom of the machine will work for any 64-bit OEM Windows Ultimate DVD.

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Just curious but how come they won't ship the 64 bit version?

Someone must have the answer to this?

I ordered a T400 3 days ago ( Sept 22 ) and just received a shipping notice today!!! 3 day got to be a record for them haha. I called for a tracking number but they said it shipped out from China with 20 other thinkpads so I have to wait till it arrives in Canada and cleared customs before a tracking number is available.

Tony Chan wrote:I ordered a T400 3 days ago ( Sept 22 ) and just received a shipping notice today!!! 3 day got to be a record for them haha. I called for a tracking number but they said it shipped out from China with 20 other thinkpads so I have to wait till it arrives in Canada and cleared customs before a tracking number is available.

Yes, this is how they do it. And take it from the voice of experience - I buy far too many new ThinkPads... Don't worry about the tracking number as they are notorious for being late with those, and I've received many a new ThinkPad _before_ the tracking number. So Good News! Your new ThinkPad will be here before you know it.

When I first ordered my thinkpad t400, lenovo had a problem processing my credit card which resulted in a two day delay before it was sent for processing. I talked to customer service about the delay and expressed that I was a bit let down, but that I still wanted the order to go through and would have to wait. It turns out, the customer service rep upgraded me to overnight shipping FOR FREE without telling me! How surprised was I when the UPS guy showed up at my door this morning!!!! I didn't think I would see the machine until next friday.

I have been using it all afternoon, and I have to say, this is one incredible computer. Fastest I have ever used, boots into Windows Vista (including the fingerprint log on) in only 67 seconds!!! The screen is the brightest I have ever seen on a laptop. The keyboard is slightly softer than the one on my z60m, but it is by no means flexy like the trampolines that come on Sony's and Dell's. I am going to use it for a week, then install the NMB keyboard I ordered and see if I can tell a difference. All is all, this is by far the best notebook computer I have ever had the pleasure of using, and I can't wait to get into some more resource demanding tasks!

ian12345 wrote:Just curious but how come they won't ship the 64 bit version?

It may be the licensing fees that Microsoft charges for 64-bit versions of Ultimate. Perhaps Lenovo felt that the added expense of volume licensing that version on some of its model lines was not justified based on limited demand.

Another possibility was to deter the sale/exchange of 64-bit Ultimate recovery DVD's, enabling people who'd purchased ThinkPads with much cheaper OS versions to get the premium 64-bit Vista for a fraction of the price. Who knows

hart22 wrote: When you get your system, windows will report 4 GB of memory installed. However, the OS will only be able to utilize 3 GB of that memory, owing to the 32-bit OS limitation. The report of 4 GB in windows despite 3 GB addressable is a Microsoft implemented reporting change in SP1. If you want to use all of your memory you'd need a 64-bit OS; your Ultimate license key on the bottom of the machine will work for any 64-bit OEM Windows Ultimate DVD.

My T400 w/switchable graphics arrived with 3G of RAM installed. "system" shows all 3G of physical RAM, but "task manager" shows that only 2.5G is available to windows Seems that the discrete and integrated graphics both reserve address space _and_ RAM. The discrete graphics has 256M on board and also reserves 256M of system RAM (or so I'm told). No BIOS option to restrict it to its on-boar RAM only.

The end result w/vista 32 ultimate running is that there is precious little RAM left for virtual machines. Because of the address space reserved by microsoft (since XP SP2 ??) bumping RAM up to 4G made no difference.

The only fix I could come up with was downgrading to XP, turning off switchable graphics, and bumping RAM to 4G. That gives 3G available to OS and applications. AND wastes most of the nice features of the T400. AND ~1G of RAM.

Lenovo is sending me Vista 64 to try. It _should_ make more RAM available - IF I can get my apps to run on it.

We shall see...
Z.

Any updates Zoltan?

nykobing06 wrote:Any updates Zoltan?

So far I can report that Vista Business 64 shows almost 4G usable in task manager, so that's a nice improvement. Most of my apps install and run.

I haven't really had enough time with it to get a feel for stability or performance. The Vista versus Access Connections issues I experienced with Vista Ultimate are still there with V 64.

I'll write up my experience and observations when I have time and either post them here (somewhere, perhaps not on this thread) or at www.beezmo.com.

Z.