[kwlug-disc] Good deals on with Lenovo online

[Ron Singh]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:13 AM Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:

> On 2021-08-11 1:23 a.m., Ron Singh wrote:
>
> Not trying to be a shill for Lenovo, but I thought these "Back-To-School"
> prices might be of interest to someone thinking of a new laptop/desktop.
> I was looking for a replacement for my venerable(10yo) T520 15" beast of a
> laptop and found it in a P17, a real mice 17.3" desktop replacement sort of
> thing.
>
>
> https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/uwaterlooca/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/ThinkPad-P17/p/20SQS27W00
>
> For $2200+HST I was  able to get an i7, 17.3" 4K 500nits display, Nvidia
> T2000 vid, 16G, 512G SSD, 3 year warranty and a 1-time battery replacement.
> It is the same dang thing that I got 7 of a little while ago for clients
> and those has costed me $2935 a piece!
>
> Many deals on there right now, many machines, new machines, better than
> those on Richese *and* Ix...
>
> I think I got a real fab  deal -- embarrassingly though, I will likely use
> it mostly for Zoom meets until I find it in my heart to retire my T520
> trusty sidekick.
> Mint 20.2 Cinnamon will live in it.
>
> Paul, please PM me if this is not an appropriate posting and I will
> desist, hopefully it's OK as I felt the urgent need to share this steal!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron S.
>
> I've been running a P17 for several months now (4k, 128GiB ram, 2+4TB NVMe
> SSDs, core i7, Fedora latest), really like it.
>
> Madi
>
> --
> Digimer
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>
>
Whoa! That is totally tricked out!
I installed a 2nd SSD with Mint on it, a 1TB, I have enough room to play
with other distros in VMs, even though I prefer to distro-hop on bare
metal. Mebbe I will relegate my old T520 to distro-hopping.
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