Comments on: Finding manufacture date of IBM laptop

By: jaideepkhanduja

jaideepkhanduja — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:06:28 +0000

I didn’t find any correct info for my laptop regarding exact date of manufacturing, there is a stamp sticker pasted at the bottom saying QC OK and a date, but that can not be the exact manufacturing date, I am sure. By backward calculations, or guessing, it is not going to provide the exact manufacturing date, that means, and there is no other way of finding it out.

By: pressler2904

pressler2904 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:52:08 +0000

The Thinkpad T40 EOL’d (stopped manufacture – stands for “End of Life”) on or about 31 December, 2003. This simply means that IBM no longer produced any new T41 notebooks after that date. As stated above, it’s not uncommon to see inventory sit around fro a few months after manufacture before being sold. I would agree that 15 months (01Jan 2004 to 01 March 2005) is a long time, but it’s not unheard of, especially at that point in time (remember many corporations work on a 3, 4 or 5 year PC replacement schedule, and many were just getting in to the replacement process in end 2003/start 2004 leading to large backlogs of unsold PC equipment…).

By: pandub

pandub — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:59:28 +0000

Thanks Jless,

I had found that link before and it gives
Status: Expiration date: Location:
Out of warranty 2008-03-01 IRELAND

So working backward and assuming 3 yr warranty that laptop is 2005-03-01, mhhh I would have though it was a little older than that!

Is it possible there was initially a 1yr warranty that was extended?