i called lenovo and they told me that the warranty on the u.s. product would be honored in israel. i called hp and they told me the hp warranty would not be honored in israel. so i am looking at the thinkpad. it seems newegg is cheaper than geeks.com and if i ship it to my daughter in chicago there is no sales tax. now i have to figure out the differences in the thinkpads. i do want a centrino but r series - t series etc makes me nuts. more reading to do and i have to check out the ibm stores site. this thread has been extremely helpful to me. thanks
reply to Irv6744 I just bought a Thinkpad T42 to replace the company laptop I'm giving up. I also bought one for my dad since his Dells keep breaking on him. I was about to order both from newegg.com but found a significantly better price from sparco.com. I highly recommend them (both Sparco and IBM).
A footnote on the IBM warranty....I had a friend who was in Beijing when his Thinkpad had a failure. They were out the next day to replace the failed hardware under warranty. Pretty impressive to me.
Footnote #2...I used to do IT support for some of the high-level executives at SoCalGas/Sempra. They all used Thinkpads and no matter where they were in the world we could get an IBM tech and/or hardware to them within a day. -- This speedtest applet has not calculated a sensible result.
