Re:Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad
by bubblethink on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:41AM
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The thing with lenovo is that advertise inflated prices. Everything is 50% off in a few months around black friday. The list price is only for press releases. Besides, thinkpads are sold primarily in bulk to companies who also get the discounted rate.
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Re:Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad
by nuodag on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:20AM
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Not in this market. We're usually buying thinkads in bunches of 20 every few months, and are struggling to get any (decent ones), never mind 50% off.
Re:Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad
by rjzzleep on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:06AM
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Thinkpads for some reason are disproportionally cheaper in the US. A lot of countries in (south) east asia are a lot more expensive. Taiwans own electronics brands are cheaper in the US than they are in Taiwan.
Re:Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad
by scns on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:55PM
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With taxes?
Re:Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad
by numpad0 on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:40AM
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no the MSRP is simply doubled in regions they do that, and effective prices are exactly the same as elsewhere. Like a midrange model might be listed as $4999.99 stricken with an "up to 65% off launch celebration offer" and a "bonus" 15% off auto-applying coupons, and all combined the price might line up into e.g. a $1045.69 for an i5/16GB. That sort of BS. It's actually one of aspects that had improved about ThinkPads since the Lenovo handover.