[TriLUG] OT: Lenovo Warehouse Sale

[Tom Roche]

Just what I get for not reading for a week:

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil Thu Sep 10 14:46:23 EDT 2009
> Mark your calendar for Lenovo's first Triangle-area public warehouse
> sale at Lenovo's headquarters campus in Morrisville. The sale will
> include Lenovo notebooks, netbooks, desktops, monitors, and
> accessories. High-end, highly configured systems will be available

Just wondering: did "highly configured"==linux preloads? I'm sorta in
the market: my TP Z61t's battery died, and I can't find a replacement
battery that will stay in, like if I actually pick up the box :-(
But when I IRCed a Lenovo rep, s/he said their current laptops and
netbooks are Windows, period. (Oh well, buying System 76 will no doubt
improve my karma :-)

One more question: how is Lenovo distributing information about the
local warehouse sales? When I and they were both IBM it was pretty
much word of mouth--has that changed?

TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>