Lenovo W520 Owner's Thread

[hantanbl]

Does any one have an answer for this question?

When Lenovo sells you the memory and SSD, your warranty is with them. In order to serve this warranty, they will need to stock up spares. All these add to their overhead so don't expect Newegg kind of prices. For me, other than doing my own upgrade to save $$, there is also the satisfaction that is driving me.

[civEX]

better they fix it. I return two w510s for same reason. I can't stand that noise at night when you want work with piece of mind (day noise is enough)
otherwise I will return w520....yes I will take other minor things like mouse pad is not very responsive etc..

I have this issue on my new W520. I started another thread on this. I have the 2820QM processor and 2000M. Good luck. I'm sending it in to hopefully get remedied. Noise coming between the hard drive and cpu heatsink. I can hear it still after hours later after shutting my laptop off on battery.

[kevinlau]

1. Hmm, I just realized that my order shows estimated ship date of 5/11/11. Reading through other posts, most people have had theirs within 2 weeks. How accurate is that date? And did anybody else get a ship date almost a month out? Seems a little crazy...

2. Also, I've been trying to figure out if I should've ordered the 2000M. There seems to be so little information out there about it. I will use the machine primarily for development, with multiple VM sessions, etc., but would like to be able to play an occasional game and work on home HD video. $250 just seems like a lot, and 2000M's TGP is 10W higher. Anybody with a more in-depth explanation?

Thanks!

Polbit

I ordered my W520 on April 11 in the morning, it shows shipped on April 17. That is a fast shipping time, only 6 days. The original given ship date was April 21.

[kevinlau]

Here we go. I ordered color sensor and was thinking - "Why did my ship date change from April 21 to 25th?" Now I know. I hope they would not change it again to later time...

My W520 shipped only 6 days after the order. Must got lucky before they ran out of the color sensor.

[chois2]

A few questions for fellow w520 owners..

1) Is the standard 9-cell battery on the w520 supposed to be a tight fit? I just noticed that my 9-cell is a bit loose and you can wiggle it slightly (definitely not a tight or snug fit)

2) What is with the 1:20-1:30 boot times? I'm embarrassed to say that my Y430 boots faster than this.. Will a clean install of Win 7 drastically improve boot times?

3) If I were to do a clean install, does that mean using recovery disks? or my own copy of win7?

[hrana]

I ordered my W520 on April 11 in the morning, it shows shipped on April 17. That is a fast shipping time, only 6 days. The original given ship date was April 21.

Nice! I ordered during the late afternoon on April 10. I got an email this morning (April 18) that my system has shipped but there is no tracking number yet. The original estimated ship date was April 21. I didn't bother with the color sensor because I have a Datacolor Spyder3 otherwise our systems are fairly similar.

I prefer the Spyder3 over the built-in color sensors I've seen but to each his/her own!

[kevinlau]

The same reason why they charge $$$ for more memory. Convenience. Some people like to do the one stop shopping and get it all at once. Others, like me, will get the base model from Lenovo then upgrade the memory, hard drive, etc for cheaper when it's feasible.

The answer is simple. They are for company or corporation orders where money is NO object for the person placing the order. It is not his money. Just order everything in one shop and be done with it.

And for our government and for NASA as wells. . For everyone else, we upgrade those parts ourself afterward.

[kevinlau]

Nice! I ordered during the late afternoon on April 10. I got an email this morning (April 18) that my system has shipped but there is no tracking number yet. The original estimated ship date was April 21. I didn't bother with the color sensor because I have a Datacolor Spyder3 otherwise our systems are fairly similar.

I prefer the Spyder3 over the built-in color sensors I've seen but to each his/her own!

That is great, we will be getting our W520 this week.
I already have my upgrade parts ready for some swapping.
Here is what I have plan:

Intel 310 msata 80GB (will be used as a temp/swap drive, not boot drive)
(This is where I will put the Temp folder and Paging File on)
Intel 510 120GB as main boot drive.
A pair of Kingston (4GB x 2) 1600MHz memory.

This hopefully will last me 3 years before next upgrade is needed.

[Thors.Hammer]

That is great, we will be getting our W520 this week.
I already have my upgrade parts ready for some swapping.
Here is what I have plan:

Intel 310 msata 80GB (will be used as a temp/swap drive, not boot drive)
(This is where I will put the Temp folder and Paging File on)
Intel 510 120GB as main boot drive.
A pair of Kingston (4GB x 2) 1600MHz memory.

This hopefully will last me 3 years before next upgrade is needed.

You forgot the Intel Series 320 600GB SSD in the Ultrabay. La Familia!

[Thors.Hammer]

A few questions for fellow w520 owners..

1) Is the standard 9-cell battery on the w520 supposed to be a tight fit? I just noticed that my 9-cell is a bit loose and you can wiggle it slightly (definitely not a tight or snug fit)

2) What is with the 1:20-1:30 boot times? I'm embarrassed to say that my Y430 boots faster than this.. Will a clean install of Win 7 drastically improve boot times?

3) If I were to do a clean install, does that mean using recovery disks? or my own copy of win7?

1. Mine is slightly loose, too. Not bad but I prefer firm stuff.
2. Regarding the boot times, is that using a hard drive or SSD?
3. Clean install refers to an install from the Windows 7 DVD.

uh oh, just realized I forgot to use multi quote. sorry