Wireless cards not listed for Lenovo Outlet machines

[smashkenazi]

The wireless card is never listed in the description of T420 and T420s machines at the Lenovo Outlet. Is there some way to decode the part numbers like "PBBEZF2-4177CTO" to decipher if the card is N-2200, N6205, or N-6300?

I did write the Outlet twice and nobody responded.

Thanks for any help

[wolfman]

That is a recent (like in the last week) development that they are not listing the wireless cards. I can't imagine they will leave it that way, their site tends to be down over night (in the US anyway) over the weekend, so maybe a software update last weekend resulted in the missing details. If you have a model that doesn't end in CTO you may be able to find it in the Tabook (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 3mYa3jH4og) and have some reasonable assurance that the wireless cards is a known commodity. I'd only really trust that though if it was in 'new' or 'redistributed' condition. Otherwise, I don't think there is a way to know without them listing - if I'm not mistaken, the refurbished and scratch and dent machines will have model numbers that do not match the tabook reference.

The down side of the tabook (personal systems reference) is that they prune models from it as they are no longer available. I'm not aware of an historical archive of them - someone here might be...

I've bought a number of machines from the outlet, but customer service on a sale from the outlet is really poor in my experience.