This is why your laptop is spending days in customs...

[smek]

http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123792,00.asp

Not sure if this is already widely known, I for one have always thought that customs were searching for things like chemical agents and so forth, but i guess counterfeit merchendise is a bigger problem than I imagined it to be. An interesting read none the less.

[dsvochak]

It's an interesting article, but I'm not sure how anyone buying direct from Lenovo is impacted.

There's no point to Lenovo "counterfeiting" a Thinkpad. I'm not even sure a manufacturer can "counterfeit" it's own product.

Whether there's an indirect impact in that the government may need more customs inspectors I don't know.

[LtTPfan]

My first Thinkpad, a 770E, was purchased at a US Customs auction. It was among a huge lot of Thinkpads confiscated as they were being exported out of the US.

[smek]

Maybe thats what is taking so long, because customs have to check each laptop to see if its really from Lenovo or a counterfeit copy with the same logo on the box.