Problematic W520s - manufacture date? [ Edited ]

[xtsubarublazin]

For those of you who are having significant issues with your W520 (sudden death, inability to wake from sleep, etc), please provide us with your date of purchase.

I would like to know if the series is improving in quality as time wears on. Are early adopters the ones with most problems? Is the production process improving at all? If so, Lenovo should offer to replace machines from earlier in the manufacturing process since there are obviously inherent, permanent problems.

As I said, please post your purchase date. I'm curious to see what becomes clear, if anything.

[martinpr]

Date of purchase: End of October 2011... Problems: SSS (Sudden Death Syndrome). Model: 4284-3WG

[eos]

Purchased online on 16/6/2011
Problems:
1) battery drains when shutdown.
2) Bad battery life (<3h with 9cell and "energy saver" mode with screen at 15
3) Random FPR not working (bios startup and windows)
4) occasionally wont wake from sleep.
No SSS.

[xtsubarublazin]

Interesting. A machine from October that has SSS and a machine from June that doesn't. That theory's out the window it seems.

[xtsubarublazin]

@martinpr,

What is your machine configuration? 

[Chatbox]

Purchase date may not be entirely accurate, as it depends on the way the purchase was made (e.g. purchased from a store stock room)

The system serial number sticker (bottom of the laptop) will have the year and month printed next to it.

[xtsubarublazin]

Yes good point. I only ever deal with Lenovo directly on laptop matters so I forget there are other ways of purchasing...Manufacture date is what I was thinking. 

[martinpr]

Right on the money. See mine was actually manufactured on 11/07. Must have been in storage for some time I guess before I got it.

Configuration:

Intel i7-2720QM

Ordered config 8GB RAM (1x4GB, 2x2GB), now (12GB, 2x4GB, 2x2GB).

FHD screen

500GB harddisk

Nvidia Quadro 2000M

[94315jim]

Manufacture date: 11/12

Sudden Shutdown Syndrome..........

[minara]

Date of purchase: August 15th, 2011... Problems: SSS (Sudden Death Syndrome). I've the Spanish version.