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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-08-11 1:23 a.m., Ron Singh
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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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