Survey: Your Ideal Business Laptop

[fmyhr]

Please take this survey when you can spare a couple of minutes.

The main motivation for the survey is to convince Lenovo to build at least some ThinkPads with better screens (like IPS or PVA). But the survey also includes questions about which features are important to you in a business-class laptop. So I encourage you to take it even if you don't care about premium screen options for your next ThinkPad.

Thanks for your help!

Here are updated Survey Results.

[fmyhr]

A big Thank You to all who took the survey!
As of this morning there are 167 responses.

Please take a couple of minutes to take the survey if you haven't already. The survey is the first step of a plan that might convince Lenovo to build more ThinkPads with premium screens.

Also want to share this link to the LCD Tech website that I came across this morning:
http://lcdtech.no-ip.info/en/tests/
It has very complete tables of LCD panels as well as online tests for color shift and dynamic range. My calibrated external MVA monitor does very well on the dynamic range test but not on the color shift test: I see big color shifts at only about 45 degree viewing angle. I've noticed these shifts before during everyday work, but this test really brings them out.

Thanks again, and happy ThinkPadding!

[fmyhr]

379 surveys returned as of this morning, July 10!

Lenovo is watching the results. If you haven't yet returned a survey, NOW would be a good time! Please tell us and Lenovo what ThinkPad features are important to you.

Thanks for your help!
-Frank

[fmyhr]

444 people have returned surveys as of this morning, July 17.

Lenovo would like to see 500 surveys before analyzing the results in detail and moving on to the next phase. We are so close! If you haven't already, PLEASE take few minutes now to fill out a survey. This is an excellent chance to add your voice to those requesting better screens, and other features, in future ThinkPads. Please also share the survey URL with your colleagues and friends who use ThinkPads or other business-class or workstation-class laptops, like Dell Latitudes, Precisions, etc.

For those who have already filled out a survey, THANK YOU!!! Your time and thoughtful comments are MUCH appreciated, and should help Lenovo to produce ThinkPads that we want to buy.

Thanks again!
Frank

[mattbiernat]

i did this. although it did take 15 minutes out of my life.... lenovo better bring back better quality screens...

[fmyhr]

i did this. although it did take 15 minutes out of my life.... lenovo better bring back better quality screens...

THANK YOU!!!

I share your hope that Lenovo will listen to our combined voices and build us a ThinkPad with the premium screen we want. They are listening, that is the first step!

For others, I will note that most of the survey questions are optional. I hope it is possible to complete one in less than 15 minutes. But many of you have included thoughtful comments about what makes a great ThinkPad, those are very much appreciated too!

[fmyhr]

Survey link

Survey ends Wednesday, 7/29 at 06:00 EDT
*** 6 days left to fill out a survey! ***


Update:

Forum members responded so quickly to my 7/17 post that it took only a single day to reach our goal of 500 surveys returned! As of this morning we have 631. A big THANKS to each of you who filled out a survey!

We want to collect as many surveys as possible, because it appears that Lenovo will judge the seriousness of the results at least in part by the raw number of surveys returned.

At the same time, the survey has now been running for 42 days, and we're eager to move on to the next step. Doing so requires Lenovo to analyze the results and decide how they'd like to proceed. They're waiting to do this until the final results are in.

And so we've decided to end the survey on Wednesday, 7/29 at 06:00 EDT. That leaves a little less than a week to fill out a survey if you haven't already!

Please share the survey URL with your colleagues and friends who use ThinkPads or other business-class or workstation-class laptops, like Dell Latitudes, Precisions, etc.

Thanks for your help,
-Frank