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Hello Mykle, > hi. i feel strangely compelled this morning to vent my spleen over > a couple of annoying Thinkpad problems, just to see whether anybody > else's experience is similar. > > the first problem i have is really a sales problem. when i ordered > the machine -- a 760EL -- i asked for a second drive to fit in the > UltraBay(tm). when i got the system unpacked, i did indeed have > a second drive, but i couldn't fit it in the UltraBay without an > adapter device, which wasn't included and which i haven't seen any > reference to in any of the IBM sales literature. i felt somewhat > ripped-off, but i may have been unclear when i ordered the second > disk drive that i wanted it for the Ultrabay specifically. I've had more than my share of gripes with the IBM ThinkPads. In a similar manner, I ordered a 760CD, fully equipped with a Dock II, a monitor, an ISA TokenRing card, etc. This was to be used as a mobile desktop replacement. When I received everything, I quickly realized that I couldn't put the monitor on top of the Dock II docking station. I called my IBM rep and he said, "ah yes, if you want to put the monitor on top of the Dock II, you must also buy a Dock II display shelf." A 125$ ripoff that allows you to mount the monitor... It's not so much the price itself (since I was already paying well over 15000$ for the whole unit) but I wish the rep would have told me so before. So I ordered the thing and it took me only 2 months to receive it (back-order...). > the second problem i have is with the process of switching items in > the UltraBay. this really couldn't be much more awkward. [...] > [...] why, oh why, couldn't IBM just give the floppy a full-face > front panel of the same shape as the CD-ROM's? it would just plop right in. Amen to that... That would simplify things greatly... > caveat: i will never, ever, complain about my nice job where they > buy me these fun toys. i just am griping because i dislike bad > computer designs on principle -- as a sysadmin, i am usually the > one who suffers because of them. =) thanks for listening to me > gripe. My biggest gripe yet is the incredibly badly engineered AC adaptor connector. Why they came up with this 2 inch horizontal connector is beyond me. I have already had to replace 3 AC units this year, because the connector things keeps breaking off at the slightest pressure. Of all the laptops I have used before (Dell's, Toshiba's, Compaq's, etc...) I have not once seen such a lousy design... Still the 760CD is one hell of a nice machine to work with. It just seems like it suffers from a couple of very bad hardware design issues that could be so easily corrected... Eric -- Eric Trepanier (514-391-8126) Bell Sygma Telecom Solutions Internet: etrepani@qc.bell.ca