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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-08-11 1:23 a.m., Ron Singh
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.</div>
        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.</div>
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href="https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/uwaterlooca/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/ThinkPad-P17/p/20SQS27W00"
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.<br>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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!</div>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Many
          deals on there right now, many machines, new machines, better
          than those on Richese <i>and</i> Ix...<br>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.</div>
        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Mint
          20.2 Cinnamon will live in it.<br>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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!<br>
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                  <div>Thanks,<br>
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                    Ron S.</div>
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    <p>I've been running a P17 for several months now (4k, 128GiB ram,
      2+4TB NVMe SSDs, core i7, Fedora latest), really like it. <br>
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    <p>Madi<br>
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