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  Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-01-18 16:20 +0100
    Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-01-18 16:30 +0100
      Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-01-18 18:00 +0100
    Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-18 19:10 +0100
      Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-01-18 20:30 +0100
    Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-18 22:30 +0100
      Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-01-18 23:30 +0100
        Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-18 23:40 +0100
          Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-01-19 00:00 +0100
          Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-19 09:10 +0100
            Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-19 13:20 +0100
        Re: [OFFTOPIC] Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-19 00:00 +0100

#230792 — Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day

There are some Lenovo tiny PCs on sale at good prices -- I ordered a new one 
for almost the same price ($2 difference) as the best price I found for the 
same model refurbished.  Plus, I could do a little customization (you can do 
more -- I basically deleted the mouse and keyboard, added the toolless chassis 
and a (built-in / punchout) VGA port (as opposed to a VGA dongle, which is 
another option).

The models that are on sale include:

M75Q Tiny (base price about $342)
M75Q Tiny Gen 2 (base price $401)
M90 something
one other -- don't have the number at hand

Oh, actually, there are a lot more, including full size desktops, laptops, all 
in ones, ....

Start at 
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/deals/desktops?sort=sortBy&currentResultsLayoutType=grid&visibleDatas=facet_Brand%3ABrand%3AThinkCentre

I also got a $10 discount for signing up to their mailling list (I may regret 
that :-(

Aside: I first ordered the M75Q Tiny because I didn't see the M75Q Tiny Gen 2, 
but I changed my order this morning.

If you are interested, act fast, the sale ends today.  

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#230793

Oh, I should point out that their prices for things like a memory or disk 
upgrade are not the best -- I plan to upgrade memory buying from another 
source.  (And I have some SSD hard drives that I will consider replacing the 
base HDD (500GB).)

On Monday, January 18, 2021 10:13:44 AM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> There are some Lenovo tiny PCs on sale at good prices -- I ordered a new
> one for almost the same price ($2 difference) as the best price I found
> for the same model refurbished.  Plus, I could do a little customization
> (you can do more -- I basically deleted the mouse and keyboard, added the
> toolless chassis and a (built-in / punchout) VGA port (as opposed to a VGA
> dongle, which is another option).
> 
> The models that are on sale include:
> 
> M75Q Tiny (base price about $342)
> M75Q Tiny Gen 2 (base price $401)
> M90 something
> one other -- don't have the number at hand
> 
> Oh, actually, there are a lot more, including full size desktops, laptops,
> all in ones, ....
> 
> Start at
> https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/deals/desktops?sort=sortBy&currentResultsLay
> outType=grid&visibleDatas=facet_Brand%3ABrand%3AThinkCentre
> 
> I also got a $10 discount for signing up to their mailling list (I may
> regret that :-(
> 
> Aside: I first ordered the M75Q Tiny because I didn't see the M75Q Tiny Gen
> 2, but I changed my order this morning.
> 
> If you are interested, act fast, the sale ends today.

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#230796

I guess I should add one more thing -- if you customize (as I did) deliveries 
could be way out there -- in one place it says "more than 5 weeks", in another 
it says June 2, 2021 (at least that is this year).  I'm assuming delivery is 
much better / faster if you don't customize.

The delivery doesn't bother me, it will give me time to do lots of other 
things I need to do.

On Monday, January 18, 2021 10:19:45 AM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> Oh, I should point out that their prices for things like a memory or disk
> upgrade are not the best -- I plan to upgrade memory buying from another
> source.  (And I have some SSD hard drives that I will consider replacing
> the base HDD (500GB).)

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#230798

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On 18.01.2021 20:13, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> There are some Lenovo tiny PCs on sale at good prices --
Unfortunately, this sale is not available for my region\country.

These are indeed, fascinating little machines, you could build a 
personal desktop cluster using them as individual nodes,
or use them to test various software configurations and network setups. :)
I wonder how else people use them and how they do in terms of performance.


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#230803

On Monday, January 18, 2021 01:02:31 PM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 18.01.2021 20:13, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > There are some Lenovo tiny PCs on sale at good prices --
> 
> Unfortunately, this sale is not available for my region\country.
> 
> These are indeed, fascinating little machines, you could build a
> personal desktop cluster using them as individual nodes,
> or use them to test various software configurations and network setups. :)
> I wonder how else people use them and how they do in terms of performance.

Well, someday I can let you know, but I'm sure it will meet my needs -- my 
biggest need was to have something small that I could place where my other two 
(tower) desktop computers sit.

Ryzen 3 with 4 cores, 8 threads, something like 3200 to 3600 GHz.  capability 
to support 64 GB of memory (nobody should ever need more than 64 GB ;-), VGA, 
hard wired Ethernet.  Of course, each model is available with differfent 
features, so not all are like the one I ordered.

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#230812

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 this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list?


  
 

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#230814

Long Wind wrote:

> this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list?

It is not advertisement, because rhkramer does not benefit from it.
He's just saying look there is a good cheep HW for sale.

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#230815

On Mon 18 Jan 2021 at 23:23:56 +0100, deloptes wrote:

> Long Wind wrote:
> 
> > this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list?
> 
> It is not advertisement, because rhkramer does not benefit from it.

Not even reputationally?

> He's just saying look there is a good cheep HW for sale.

We can all do it on -user? Anything goes?

-- 
Brian.
> 
> 
> 

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#230817

Brian wrote:

> Not even reputationally?
> 

disputable

>> He's just saying look there is a good cheep HW for sale.
> 
> We can all do it on -user? Anything goes?

if it is one time ... I'd (how do you say?) shut one eye maybe
I was intrigued - saved me a lot of time. I'm looking from time to time for
next replacement of the desktop - I need 1 or 2 serial ports. I never knew
ThinkPad has industrial series with 2 Com ports and 2 Network ports.
I couldn't decide to buy, but at least learned something new ... well
admitted not related to Debian :) but useful

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On Lu, 18 ian 21, 22:36:22, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 18 Jan 2021 at 23:23:56 +0100, deloptes wrote:
> 
> > Long Wind wrote:
> > 
> > > this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list?
> > 
> > It is not advertisement, because rhkramer does not benefit from it.
> 
> Not even reputationally?
> 
> > He's just saying look there is a good cheep HW for sale.
> 
> We can all do it on -user? Anything goes?

The Think* series has traditionally been good quality and well supported 
in Linux. More recently Lenovo has been actively cooperating with the 
Linux community (including Debian) to improve the user experience on 
*new* systems.

Because of that I interpreted it as "look, that hardware that we know 
Debian runs well on is now on sale" ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#230834

On Tue 19 Jan 2021 at 10:03:25 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Lu, 18 ian 21, 22:36:22, Brian wrote:
> > On Mon 18 Jan 2021 at 23:23:56 +0100, deloptes wrote:
> > 
> > > Long Wind wrote:
> > > 
> > > > this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list?
> > > 
> > > It is not advertisement, because rhkramer does not benefit from it.
> > 
> > Not even reputationally?
> > 
> > > He's just saying look there is a good cheep HW for sale.
> > 
> > We can all do it on -user? Anything goes?
> 
> The Think* series has traditionally been good quality and well supported 
> in Linux. More recently Lenovo has been actively cooperating with the 
> Linux community (including Debian) to improve the user experience on 
> *new* systems.
> 
> Because of that I interpreted it as "look, that hardware that we know 
> Debian runs well on is now on sale" ;)

Not an unreasonable view. However, the style and frequency of the posts
raised a question in at least one user's mind :).

-- 
Brian.

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#230818 — Re: [OFFTOPIC] Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day

>> this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list?

Good question.

> It is not advertisement, because rhkramer does not benefit from it.

It's definitely borderline.  It didn't bother me (I happen to like
those kinds of little critters, tho I went with a Librem mini instead,
to put my money where my mouth is), but I did find it out of place.

> He's just saying look there is a good cheep HW for sale.

In any case, it needed an `[OFFTOPIC]` marker in the Subject line.


        Stefan

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