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"I hope all you ex-Thinkpad people are telling IBM why you switched when you call to cancel your order. It's disgraceful that IBM took this long to even start to address the availability problem. I guess from their point of view, excessive demand is a "good" problem." That's a bit extreme, IBM has been trying to address TP availability from day one. Yes, they have continually badly underestimated the demand, but that's also a reflection of quality, the TP has repeatedly been more successful than expected. IBM positioned the TP as a high margin machine at the high end, with expected modest sales, and has been surprised to find that a high margin machine of this type has such a high demand. For the record, Toshiba has also had terrible supply problems. Industry wide, for high end machines, IBM and Toshiba are in about the same shape. Sure, individual experience may differ (I have owned the following thinkpads 700, 720, 750, 750C, 750CX, 750CD, 760CD, and *every single one* was purchased within 14 days of IBM's announced availability date, but you simply cannot judge from individual experience, what counts is availability in quantity for large corporate orders). Most of us on this list are trying for individual machines from the channel. The availability in this context is more a function of allocation than overall availability compared with demand. Both IBM and Toshiba leak some units into the channel early, and if you catch them you are fine, but if you want to order 500 ED's or 500 Tecra's right now for your company, you will find it hard to get either any time soon. It's easy to say that a company is behavind disgracefully when they under-estimate demand, but the penalties for over-estimating demand can be very high. IBM presumably was badly burned by their wild over-estimate of the 701 demand, and we saw 701 firesales within a VERY short time of the arrival of this machine. From a business point of view, that was equally disgraceful, but of course people on this list often found it quite delightful to buy 701's so cheap :-) Forcasing demand in this field is notoriously hard, if you know how to do it reliably, let someone know, you will quickly be a very rich chap!