Lenovo just lost a sale

Tuesday, October 9. 2007

Posted by Joe O'Brien in Sysadmin at 20:26 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Lenovo is running one hell of a deal on laptops right now. They’ve got 25% off for their anniversary sale and dealnews.com has a coupon that stacks another 10% off on that. I’ve been using an old T40 with Fedora on it a lot recently and it rocks. They had me sold until I tried to customize the ThinkPad I wanted. Sure enough, you can pick 5 flavors of Windows but you HAVE to pick one. I don’t want Windows and I don’t want to pay a Micro$oft tax no matter how small the amount. So… NO SALE.

Screw it, I’m back to waiting for Leopard to come out and I’m going to go buy a new Mac.

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Honestly, I think you’ve made the right decision.

At my previous job we’d used IBM, and thereafter Lenovo for client laptops and quite frankly the build quality has suffered over the last year or so.

#1 the_angry_angel (Homepage) on 2007-10-10 05:45 (Reply)

I’ve heard that. I know I’ll be happy with a Mac.

#1.1 Joe on 2007-10-10 17:50 (Reply)

I don’t know if you knew about this but Lenovo Struck a deal with Suse a while back to offer that on select laptops. Should be in full effect 4th quater. I LOVE my ThinkPad X60s w/ built in EVDO radio and I run a dual boot linux/xp setup, works great for what I need it for.
More Info here: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2167517,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

#2 The IT Guy (Homepage) on 2007-10-16 09:38 (Reply)

Cool, I hadn’t heard that. I gotta say, I’m pretty happy with my old beat up Thinkpad and my 3 year old PowerBook G4. I’m probably going to by a 24 inch iMac in a few weeks mainly just for photos and video stuff.

#2.1 Joe on 2007-10-16 17:29 (Reply)

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