So he said he loved the TP, and I said I loved mine from a hardware perspective, but I had problems with all the software 'extras'. I noticed his thinkpad, and I asked him if he liked it (my T41 was under my seat because there was no power plug and I don't get much battery life, never really did, and now the battery is old). Do people really trust this think vantage stuff? As I mentioned elsewhere, I just rode next to an IBM employee on a plane. Software updater seems to be more reliable now, but how do we really know what updates it misses (without hunting through the driver matrix constantly)? I just picked up a hardware update for my LAN card from microsoft update- it was missed by software installer. This agreed with my experience for a number of years. I was always told by official tech service that the updating program (it has had two names) that is part of the thinkvantage package is totally unreliable and that only the manual update process using the driver matrix should be used. When it was, I had lots of calls to tech service for a variety of software problems.

Thinkpad driver update