I believe they are on sale at the moment on the Lenovo site.<br>I think they are generally cheaper to buy direct from Lenovo or<br>maybe through a reseller, esp. if they have a promotion in <br>place. Some of the newer ones have LED screens as well.<br>
<br>They also occasionally have models that were to be sold<br>and are new but the contract was canceled or something<br>- so you need to check their website for offers. These machines<br>sometimes come without an OS or DOS. <br>
<cite><a href="http://outlet.lenovo.com/">http://outlet.lenovo.com/</a><br><br></cite><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Quoting Oksana Goertzen <<a href="mailto:ogoertzen@gmail.com" target="_blank">ogoertzen@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I use a Lenovo T500 at work and I've never had an issue with any of the<br>
IBM/Lenovo<br>
business class notebooks running Linux. Little more money but pretty rock<br>
steady<br>
and it's easy to get replacement parts and upgrade the machine yourself if<br>
need be.<br>
<br>
Oksana<br>
</blockquote>
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a lenovo would be terrific if they weren't so stupidly expensive. i realize they're top-notch systems, but at the same place, a T500 is almost $1400:<br>
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<a href="http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5619442&CatId=4935" target="_blank">http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5619442&CatId=4935</a><br>
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and that's with only a 1280x800 display, and only 2G of memory. there's no way i'm spending almost $1400 to get a WXGA display.<br>
<br>
rday<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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