Win a ThinkPad X Series
Our ThinkPad Team is running a ThinkPad Most Mileage Contest. The details are found here on a link off of our ThinkPad 15th Anniversary Web Page. As usual, apologies to non-North American readers as this is only open to the US and Canada only (excluding Quebec).
To win, you need to submit a 2 -4 minute video under the theme of “most mileage.” What most mileage means is up to you – use your creativity and wow the judges.
Maybe you take your ThinkPad to the rainforest.
Maybe you like to bake with it, because you know a ThinkPad works better than a cookie sheet to give your sugar cookies nice golden brown bottoms. ***
Or maybe you do this all day…
In any case, let us know how your ThinkPad has the most mileage and have some fun with it.
***DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME. This is a joke and a ThinkPad cannot really be used this way. If you think a ThinkPad really can substitute as a baking sheet, then please see a doctor.
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November 27th, 2007 4:33 am
US and Canada only
November 27th, 2007 8:50 am
As usual, apologies to non-North American readers as this is only open to the US and Canada only (excluding Quebec).
To quote your CEO: ‘We’re a global company, with customers on every continent.’ So don’t be sorry: fix it!
November 27th, 2007 9:35 am
[...] away places, extreme usage, or hours of use. There’s info on the contest on Lenovo’s Inside The Box Blog, and the official contest rules are here. Note the contest is only open to residents of the US and [...]
November 27th, 2007 9:58 am
Bill and Rik – I completely hear what you are saying, but I will point out one fact: when you expand to international laws in contests like this, it gets extremely complicated to run a contest giveaway. You raise good points though and I will keep you in mind with our worldwide colleagues, as we collaborate on different projects and new opportunities arise.
November 27th, 2007 2:20 pm
Tim, could you explain why from a legal point of view the Quebec is excluded?
November 27th, 2007 3:35 pm
John – Without getting too in depth, it looks like Quebec has its own set of rules & regulations around things like this. I can’t speak from specific knowledge around what decisions were made for this contest, but it appears to be a common roadblock for many companies wanting to do contest giveaways.
I also found some information on this third-party site. [Insert "not endorsed by Lenovo" and "you are leaving Lenovoblogs.com for a third-party site" yadayada verbage here] Link
November 27th, 2007 3:47 pm
My x61 tablet has been travelling with me for 5 months with screen bezel cracked open, yet Lenovo still don’t have a solution to fix it. I hope you don’t mind making a video like that.
Oh. I won’t. What if I win, and you give me another X61 tablet with cracking bezels?
I’ve had enough.
November 27th, 2007 6:09 pm
Thank you for the link Tim
November 27th, 2007 6:31 pm
Yes, we here in Québec truly are a “distinct society” and we have our own rules and regulations for everything; I’m not surprised at all the extra hoops that contest and sweepstakes organizers are required to jump through to offer their prizes here. Some of it boils down to cultural and linguistic distinction; Québec is basically an island (bigger than Texas, California, and Montana combined, but with only 7.5 million people; roughly the population of the state of Virginia) of predominately French language and culture in a huge ocean of anglophones. We probably take more of our political and cultural cues from Europe than from the rest of Canada or the US.
But hey, plenty of us do buy and use ThinkPads here, so we can’t be all bad
November 28th, 2007 11:51 am
I’ll pretty much generally always miss such direct contests, rebates etc. for europe. Seems Lenovo always thinks that their usual market is only the north american market. – In other words, I also often wonder how slow and behind in time the “…so called global operating company…” presents itself in other regions of the world.
In short, it always looks like a two-tier society, namely first of all North America and then maybe eventually the rest of the world. – No need to say, that I’am (like other world wide customers and people too) mostly not much amused about this!
November 28th, 2007 4:36 pm
vkyr, I am from Canada and see the difference:
http://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/ Z————-
http://www.lenovo.com Z—————–
They think Canadians do not celebrate christmas and holidays and yet they come to Canada to film movies like AVP-R.
November 29th, 2007 1:22 am
My feet make the Lenovo blog! Kewl! Hmm, perhaps I’ve found a new vocation as a foot model?
I’ll expect royalty checks any day now
November 29th, 2007 12:58 pm
That’s absolut unfair. I am sitting here with my A31 and my 600x. I used this 600x since i bought it and it travell with me over the whole world without to be damaged, sometimes only in my backpack. I made my Dipl with it, my first Adminjob till my last. Nothing beat this one and i could tell absolut abnormal stories that he made. A short time (2 Weeks) at a rollout years ago, for 8.000 Users a PDC on NT4.0 ( not fileserver and printserver). Noone feels the diffrence in this time. Now he’s running with Debian Linux since 3 Years and is Happy with it.
You will misses a lot of Stories with him, ’cause you said, just US and Canada. But there is one thing i could tell you, i will never sell a Thinkpad since i have this one .And i own one more 600x, bought this one at ebay, just as a spare part storage. Because i think some day, later, if something gets wrong, there won’t be any buyable parts from you or IBM.
Seraphyn
December 1st, 2007 9:44 am
Damn.
I wish I live in the USA..
I really love thinkpads, unfortunaly I cannot afford a new one (or at least a not-to-old one), so I still use a TP 770, which the company where my Dad works sold (as they got new ones) 2 years ago. It runs windows xp (more or less), ans I still use it for university.
December 1st, 2007 6:56 pm
Is the “baked” ThinkPad what happens if the fan stops running and it overheats but does not shut itself down?
December 2nd, 2007 9:00 pm
Tim wrote: “I completely hear what you are saying, but I will point out one fact: when you expand to international laws in contests like this, it gets extremely complicated to run a contest giveaway.”
If it not too complicated for Lenovo to sell machines in any partciluar market, why is it too complicated to give them away?
I understand that there may be issues in terms of running a competition out of North America in terms of the budget for supplying a prize ThinkPad, but the world is a GLOBAL market nowadays and the use-by dates on the usual “it’s too hard”excuses have long expired! Its time to get the problems solved!
Anyone who listens to the various internation public radio services, such as “Deutsche Vella”, “BBC World Service” etc, will know that some organisations have long ago figured out how to make international give-away competitions work, so its not rocket science!
December 4th, 2007 5:37 pm
If lenovo knew world was a global market then we would have been getting CTO models in other countries also. Kudos to Steve Jobs Apple and other US companies like Dell for keeping their prices economically acceptable for every region and providing customization. I miss IBM…
December 9th, 2007 2:36 am
Nuts, wish this contest came up while I was in South America. Went to Argentina to snowboard and also to Peru to hike to Machu Picchu, I would’ve taken video of it there. By the time I got back to the states I ended up with a partly functioning OS (don’t know how that happened, but a format and fresh install took care of it) and a dead backlight.
I was .5 years out of warranty so I had someone on the ThinkPad forums replace the backlight for me for $75.
Wish I had video of the trip.
February 11th, 2008 12:06 am
This would be a wonderful prize thank you