Lovely sale on some thinkpads today

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:53:14PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Apparently today there is a sale on thinkpads which looks pretty nice.
> 
> I tried checking the price of a T61 which worked out like this:
> T9300 2.5GHz CPU
> Vista Ultimate
> 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) display
> Intel X3100 GM965 graphics (works great with linux although 3D isn't fast).
> 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-5300 ram
> Fingerprint scanner
> intel 4965AGN wireless (works very well with linux)
> 160GB 7200rpm drive
> DVD recorder
> 9 cell battery
> 
> They list it as regularly $2124, on sale during upgrade sale pricing for
> $1544.25, and then after todays employee pricing coupon (CAPYPWWP) an
> additional $231.64 saving, giving a total of $1312.61 apparently.  That
> sounds pretty cheap for a quite well equiped thinkpad that is supposed
> to work great with Linux.  Picking the cheapest windows version and a
> smaller disk should make it even cheaper of course.
> 
> I think the T61p often has nvidia graphics which would be nice if 3D
> graphics are needed, but the plain T61 still looks nice, and can be run
> fully open source

Now today they have come out with coupons that are each valid for the
first 200 orders of each of a set of models.  See redflagdeals.com for
the list.  They give 20% off a bunch of laptops.

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Len Sorensen
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