Thinkpads Forum

Hi all,

the first new thinkpads are popping up in different shops here in Germany. It is unbelievable but the prices reflect more or less the converted USD prices. e.g. a T500 top model costs about 1700Euros and I think that costs about 2400 $ in the US.
That would be awesome. I just checked my invoice of my T60p which cost me a massive 3200 Euros about 2 years ago.

Kind regards

freakwave wrote:Hi all,

the first new thinkpads are popping up in different shops here in Germany. It is unbelievable but the prices reflect more or less the converted USD prices. e.g. a T500 top model costs about 1700Euros and I think that costs about 2400 $ in the US.
That would be awesome. I just checked my invoice of my T60p which cost me a massive 3200 Euros about 2 years ago.

Kind regards

I don't think it's so much of a price cut in Germany, but instead it is just because the price for the T400/T500 series in U.S. is much higher than the the previous generation T61. I don't actually understand how Lenovo decides the price for these machines(though I suspect the high price of DDR3 is one of the reason), but I guess we will see the price of T400/T500 comes down to the $1000-$1200 level (after coupon), but I doubt we will see these machines be sold for sub-700Euro in Germany in the near future (which is somewhat the price range for "mainstream" laptops there). Plus, the sales tax is 19% in Germany but usually only 7-9% in the U.S.

Price increases in the U.S. are to be expected given the low value of the dollar.

Also - remember that Americans are in the habit of mentioning pre-tax prices while Europeans always include VAT.