Thinkpads Forum

The price of the customized model I've been looking at has gone up by nearly $500. It's at the highest price I've ever seen and I've been watching this for well over 6 months now. I thought there were supposed to be sales at this time of year.

My guess is due to the floods in Thailand. The cost of hard drives has gone up substantially. So I think many of the models either feature a SSD or an atypically expensive hard drive.

So why has the base price gone up? It's still far more expensive even if I go with an SSD.

Kimmo wrote:So why has the base price gone up? It's still far more expensive even if I go with an SSD.

The sales are over?

bluefrisbee wrote: The sales are over?

A 6+ month long sale?

The prices are currently ridiculous, I agree.

I was thinking about spending ~$700 on what would have been my first brand new thinkpad, but nowadays that won't even get me a used x220.

The only reason I can think of is demand. Lenovo must be selling a lot of them. If the high price sticks, then I probably won't own an x220 for at least 2 more years.

Guess I'll just have to hang on to my T60 for a while longer

TarzanBoy wrote:The prices are currently ridiculous, I agree.

I was thinking about spending ~$700 on what would have been my first brand new thinkpad, but nowadays that won't even get me a used x220.

Rid yourself of the T60 and get your new to you X220 here.

Brad

I am only considering notebooks with an IPS screen (which is the reason I have my current T60).