Lenovo W520 Owner's Thread

[alexqaws]

Many thanks!
I am about to open mine when I have some spare time. Any tip or difficulty experienced when you open yours?

Regarding your question of buying a 6300, where do you live?

Best,
Finfo

It took me about 5 minutes the first time I opened it and I had no difficulty whatsoever. It's very easy to open which is one of the reasons why I'm very pleased with this machine, but I recommend that you watch a Youtube video first to see how to do it.

I live in Romania (Europe), but the computer was bought from USA. As far as I know I can't buy the card from Lenovo as they don't ship to other countries and the Lenovo website from my country doesn't even show thinkpads as being for sale (this is a little bit awkward).

By the way, does anyone know if there is any difference between the intel 6300 wireless adapter with the 60Y3233 FRU and the one with 60Y3193? If not, I could take my chances with the 60Y3193 as they seem to be about 22$ on e-bay (compared with the other one that is about double).

Thanks,
Alex

[Colonel O'Neill]

Anyone have an overdrive utility for the FHD screen? Response times are in the dumps. =/

[aries_totle]

ey guys, does anybody here can tell me if your w520 exhausts release air that smells like a "burnin metal or plastic"? sad to say i just returned my unit to best buy because i got no time to ask from the thread but it seems like i have a problem with it unless someone will say it's normal

[voostro]

ey guys, does anybody here can tell me if your w520 exhausts release air that smells like a "burnin metal or plastic"? sad to say i just returned my unit to best buy because i got no time to ask from the thread but it seems like i have a problem with it unless someone will say it's normal

ummm no, doesn't sound good

you got a W520 from BB ???!!!

[Kuroi-Tsubasa]

ey guys, does anybody here can tell me if your w520 exhausts release air that smells like a "burnin metal or plastic"? sad to say i just returned my unit to best buy because i got no time to ask from the thread but it seems like i have a problem with it unless someone will say it's normal

A W520, from Best Buy???

What the...I don't even...

But no, mine smells just fine.

[voostro]

A W520, from Best Buy???

What the...I don't even...

But no, mine smells just fine.

lol, same reaction

gotta be a V570 or summtin, maybe he was not so coherently talking about 2 different machines

one is a w520 and another he got from BB

[aries_totle]

ummm no, doesn't sound good

you got a W520 from BB ???!!!

A W520, from Best Buy???

What the...I don't even...

But no, mine smells just fine.

lol, same reaction

gotta be a V570 or summtin, maybe he was not so coherently talking about 2 different machines

one is a w520 and another he got from BB

yes guys, check it online, it's delivered to me oct. 6. i enjoyed the machine for 14 days now, and good timing it showed somethin different while it's still returnable. anyway, got to order it again at least i made the right move

thanks for the replies.

[voostro]

yes guys, check it online, it's delivered to me oct. 6. i enjoyed the machine for 14 days now, and good timing it showed somethin different while it's still returnable. anyway, got to order it again at least i made the right move

thanks for the replies.

huh ? c'mon

are you in another country ?

It doesn't come up for me thru the bestbuy website or a google search....

out of curiosity please provide a link !!

and also curious how much you payed

thanks.....

[aries_totle]

huh ? c'mon

are you in another country ?

It doesn't come up for me thru the bestbuy website or a google search....

out of curiosity please provide a link !!

and also curious how much you payed

thanks.....

i'm in toronto.

Search Results - Best Buy Canada
or simply type "lenovo' on best buy search box

paid $1978 with tax

[voostro]

i'm in toronto.

Search Results - Best Buy Canada

paid 1978 with tax

ahhhh, thats it, figured as much

down south here in the States not available on bestbuy website

just as well, its much cheaper for us if we order online and have it shipped from China

It is a nice option to have for you, I see they a have a few models 'in stock' and ready to ship.

We can get them like that through websites here like Office Depot (price blows) or Tiger Direct (crappy models and hard to trust)

Going through Lenovo's website I was able to upgrade my warranty to NBD Onsite Repair and for dirtcheap too though.