Here's a tip to save on notebook workstation (Canada only).
With a Visa Business card, you can get a decent discount onLenovoproducts (go to www.visasavingsforbusiness.ca then click thrutothe Lenovo site to get the discounted pricing).
On T61p workstations, it works out to about a 17% discountoff listprice.
The kickers are:
- They offer only limited configurations of T61p's and worse,theydon't even stock most of them, especially the betterconfiguredones. The are only available by pre-order and the leadtime is 3~4weeks.
- They only offer with Vista Business installed. (The onlyway toget XP is to get a XP downgrade serial number from M\\\$ (free),butone can't get this until after one receives the computer.Lenovowill send a free XP disk after one gets the down grade code.So add1 to 2 weeks to the lead time. One can also use an existinginstalldisk of XP (not including OEM versions) if they already haveit. Orbuy a copy of XP. One bright side of downgrading to XP isone's Vista licence will still be valid so one won't need topayfor afor an upgrade in 2009 when service pack 2 comesout.)
In the end, it's probably easier and cheaper to buy it in theU.S.,even with travel time factored in!SolidworksAdministration
With a Visa Business card, you can get a decent discount onLenovoproducts (go to www.visasavingsforbusiness.ca then click thrutothe Lenovo site to get the discounted pricing).
On T61p workstations, it works out to about a 17% discountoff listprice.
The kickers are:
- They offer only limited configurations of T61p's and worse,theydon't even stock most of them, especially the betterconfiguredones. The are only available by pre-order and the leadtime is 3~4weeks.
- They only offer with Vista Business installed. (The onlyway toget XP is to get a XP downgrade serial number from M\\\$ (free),butone can't get this until after one receives the computer.Lenovowill send a free XP disk after one gets the down grade code.So add1 to 2 weeks to the lead time. One can also use an existinginstalldisk of XP (not including OEM versions) if they already haveit. Orbuy a copy of XP. One bright side of downgrading to XP isone's Vista licence will still be valid so one won't need topayfor afor an upgrade in 2009 when service pack 2 comesout.)
In the end, it's probably easier and cheaper to buy it in theU.S.,even with travel time factored in!SolidworksAdministration
