Lenovo ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook
While researching a story on business Ultrabooks I stumbled over Lenovo’s T430u ThinkPad. It looks like a good choice for business users preferring a Windows PC over a tablet.
If I was in the market for an Ultrabook, I’d choose this.
Why? Because the T430u is a business tool, not a toy.
Like all Ultrabooks, the T430u is slim and light – Lenovo has packed it in an aluminium case. Better, it passes US military spec tests which means its more than tough enough for most New Zealand businesses. There’s also built-in web conferencing – a huge bonus.
Best of all, Lenovo has sharpened its pencil on pricing to the point where the T430u range represents some of the best value around. Prices start at NZ$1025 for the model with i3 processor, 2GB of Ram and a 320GB hard drive.The top of the line $1550 model has an i7 processor, 8GB of Ram and a 128GB solid state drive.
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Just about to recommend this to Sally (it’s @Circusfred)
Very nice price but I couldn’t get over the looks enough to buy. Luckily for business users it’s more about usability, but if I’m buying I like my toys to look good.
Don’t know why but I’m see different prices from you.
Top of the line is NZ$1579 ex GST after ‘web-coupon’ discount applied.
Bottom of the line is NZ$891.65 ex GST after the ‘web-coupon’ doo-dacky
More to the point the top of the line 430u doesn’t have Windows 7 shown as an option ! I’ve been prevaricating about buying a new laptop believing that Lenovo would keep offering W7 for a long time yet (http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/worried-youll-be-forced-buy-windows-8-relax-200517) . Seeing that made my blood run cold ;-)
Ultrabooks are so made for W8, I would be surprised to see them with anything else. They might keep W7 on their more budget devices.
Bill is citing incl. GST numbers.
fwiw the numbers shown to me on the Lenovo site don’t match Bills with or without GST and/or ‘discount coupons’.
It doesn’t really matter I was just interested to know whether he was genuinely seeing different numbers (and if so why) or whether he’d just rounded them.
I see top of the line is $1342.15 ex GST. Multiply by 1.15 gets me $1543 (I rounded that to $1550). I’m not sure how Lenovo gets from $1342.15 to $1579 unless that’s adding a shipping charge – although the top of the page shows Free Shipping.
Could be Lenovo’s GST calculation is wrong.
Ha ! That’s funny – I just assumed their GST was correct !