Lenovo has KNACK for NOT building system I'm looking for

[thinkmad1978]

Case in point:

If you were in the market for a solid, reliable, and respectable business laptop these days, you might want features like these:

- 4th generation Intel processor (core i5 or higher)
- 15 or 17 inch display
- 8 GB of RAM
- Solid state hard drive (larger than the size of my USB thumb drive would be nice)
- USB 3.0 ports
- Windows 7 (Don't even get me started on Windows

You know, a few of what I consider to be essential "guts" to a respectable business system as we prepare to enter 2014. Something I won't be hurling into the wall in frustration one year from now when it's unbearably slow.

Of course, the system I described above (from Lenovo) would cost $1500 Cdn... if you could get it at all. Meanwhile the same system from Acer, HP, Dell, or basically anyone else will be $1000 max, and probably $750 by Boxing Day. So where is the extra $500 going? I had no idea a TrackPoint was so expensive!

Sorry, I promise not to rant anymore.

[TTY]

Hello,
CDW Canada sell ThinkPads that meet your requirements, except for the amount of random access memory. It's easy to add RAM yourself. Here are two of them:

http://www.cdw.ca/shop/products/Lenovo- ... 88406.aspx

http://www.cdw.ca/shop/products/Lenovo- ... 85840.aspx

[lead_org]

i think it is not that Lenovo is not building the laptop that you are looking for, but it is rather you are not willing to pay the price they are offered at.

I am sure the new ThinkPad Edge E540 probably be within your price range with the features that you need.

[Temetka]

I wouldn't want to buy a system with 8GB of RAM from the vendor anyway. They always inflate the price of RAM and storage. Save the few bucks, step up to a faster i5 and get your RAM from Newegg.

On the comment about Lenovo not building the machine you want. I feel you there. I want a solid mobile workstation with oodles of CPU and GPU power, expandable storage, plenty of ports, great LCD, and most importantly it has to be built like a tank. But then again I don't mind dropping 3 grand on a system such as that. It's a shame that Lenovo all but abandoned that market segment for consumer and mid grade business class laptops.

Thank god for Dell, Sager, Clevo, et al. for continuing to fill this void however. Once you experience the raw power of a true workstation class computer in a mobile format, you never want to go back.