Lenovo increases delivery estimate on T60p

[WilsonF]

Dear Valued Lenovo Customer,

We are emailing you with regards to your outstanding Lenovo Order for our new T60 series Thinkpad.

Please be advised that the estimated ship date provided on the website was not accurate.

At this time the new estimated ship date for these Thinkpads is approximately 4 to 6 weeks. We are currently updating our website to more accurately reflect shipping time frames.

We apologize for the delay in fulfilling your order, however as with all new models that we introduce this is necessary so that we are able to conduct the highest level of quality testing possible.

Thank you for your continued patience and again we apologize again for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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[K. Eng]

I'm not surprised.

The ramp of Napa products has been terribly slow. I believe that Intel originally planned to ship Napa platform components in Q4 '05 so that machines would be ready in January. However, it looks like the Netburst desktop components got all the 65nm capacity first, mostly because Pentium 4 and Pentium D were getting their butt handed to them by AMD Athlon 64/X2.

The result is that Intel's Napa launch in January was pretty much paper except for the new iMac (which is a pretty slick machine -- a local computer dealer near me got a whole bunch of Core Duo iMacs in stock 3 weeks ago).

[bibo]

It also sounds like T60 is not very stable and needs more time to be test on. There are a lot of Acer duo core notebooks in stock too.

[christopher_wolf]

It also sounds like T60 is not very stable and needs more time to be test on. There are a lot of Acer duo core notebooks in stock too.

Do you have resources to back this up?

I haven't heard anything about the stability of the T60 Good or Bad. That said, if was spending *that* much on a newly-releasd duo core, I would spend it on the T60 in a heartbeat rather than some Acer that I have had no experience with or reputation to go off of.