> Keep in mind your X1 was at least twice the price of this thing (honestly I feel they are overpriced, Asus do literally the same thing for $1k less)
You cannot look at Lenovo sticker price. My conspiracy theory is it exists for the same reason Azure sticker price does: to give procurement managers something to do. My understanding is almost nobody pays sticker on either.
I paid the advertised, full-sticker prices for my ThinkPads and my SaaS biz' Azure subscription. So that's painful to hear.
I know with Dell it's just a matter of tracking down an account-executive who can negotiate 10-15% discounts, even for one-off orders, but I haven't been able to do that with Lenovo yet. As for Azure: our spend is well under 6-figures/yr (I think $20k right now?), so we don't have a (named) account-manager yet (we do get personal emails from rotating account-execs once every quarter, but they don't seem keen on saving us money...)
You cannot look at Lenovo sticker price. My conspiracy theory is it exists for the same reason Azure sticker price does: to give procurement managers something to do. My understanding is almost nobody pays sticker on either.