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    New T500 with C2D P8700, WXGA Only $362.99 At CDW

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by dlai, Dec 12, 2010.

  1. dlai

    dlai Notebook Consultant

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    dlai, Dec 12, 2010
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    Nice find. I would have bought this but shipping, recycle fee, and sales tax adds an extra 63$ for me. Still pretty cheap though. :)
     
    NeeGo, Dec 12, 2010
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  3. dlai

    dlai Notebook Consultant

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    I'm with you, sometimes it's not much fun living in the bankrupt state they call Cali...
     
    dlai, Dec 12, 2010
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  4. vēer

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    Wow, thats cheap!
     
    vēer, Dec 12, 2010
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  5. lead_org

    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    at this rate, we can have a new R400 for around 200 dollars, which will be great.
     
    lead_org, Dec 12, 2010
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  6. vēer

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    Id take X200 for some 450 please :D
     
    vēer, Dec 12, 2010
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  7. MidnightSun

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    Oh wow... this is a great deal, far better than some of the cheapo budget laptops currently in stores. I wonder how much my T500 is worth now, then :rolleyes:
     
    MidnightSun, Dec 12, 2010
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  8. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    My guess would be it's a price mistake and there's a good chance it'll never ship once their software figures out there's been a huge up tick in orders.
     
    ZaZ, Dec 12, 2010
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  9. PatchySan

    PatchySan Om Noms Kit Kat

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    Either that or they want to clear their inventory pretty quick for the newer models. The T500 is a generation behind but as MidnightSun said, it does make a better budget buy compared to the budget consumer lines with Intel Celeron's inside.
     
    PatchySan, Dec 12, 2010
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  10. LoneWolf15

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    Wow, now my Craigslist-find-of-the-week T60 doesn't seem quite as awesome, even though I'm still going to post about it. :D
     
    LoneWolf15, Dec 12, 2010
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  11. vēer

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    +1, after all, I got my R400 fullly loaded (except for 2gb of RAM and 160HDD) and it had everything R400 was supposed to have (not sure about WWAN antennas if it has them, BIOS has WWAN option that I can enable/disable tho) and I got it for 520$ couple of months ago with 3 year warranty and 9 cell battery.
    So I dont think that this T500 could be unreal, its bigger, bulkier, with lesser specs and its really "old" already, new models are behind the corner so why not selling out last stock leftovers...
     
    vēer, Dec 12, 2010
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  12. jaakobi

    jaakobi Notebook Evangelist

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    Holy cr@p! That is cheap! Looks like that W701 went back to normal price. Rats.

    I want buy one for my dad, he now uses my old M1330 which has Nvidia 8400M graphics, which have failed twice already. The warranty is going to expire by next month so I think the graphics will fail again at some point.

    Anyone think the price is genuine? I hope so, I want to at least have some time to make a decision, I don't want to make a decision right this instant.
     
    jaakobi, Dec 13, 2010
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  13. talin

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    Wow that is cheap. Surely it must either be a refurb, or a pricing mistake. :confused:
     
    talin, Dec 13, 2010
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  14. cyber16

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    If you click the tech spec's it is listed as a T9600 2.8 Ghz cpu not the p8700
    It also shows 4GB ram
     
    cyber16, Dec 13, 2010
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  15. jaakobi

    jaakobi Notebook Evangelist

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    wow that's pretty cool :) but now I think they're onto us, it says call for pricing to me (but I have it in a shopping cart at the $360 price, hehe)
     
    jaakobi, Dec 13, 2010
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  16. aadadams

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    They are all out! I called to verify... Would have been a good present for my niece... Ah well...
     
    aadadams, Dec 13, 2010
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