ThinkPad X200 $70 cheaper with 128GB SSD option, order now!

It's almost certainly a mistake but if you head on over to the Lenovo store and plunk down an order for the 12.1-inch ThinkPad X200 ultra-portable with 128GB SSD, you'll pay $70 less than the standard 80GB hard drive configuration. This isn't just a misprint, we ran the config through Lenovo's site and sure enough, the entry level X200 price drops from $1,434 to $1,364 after selecting the biggie SSD. Hell, you'd likely pay that much for the SSD alone as the 64GB SSD lists for an $830 premium. Reader Sunil already has his order in so you'd better hurry up and do the same -- it won't be long before Lenovo wises up to the situation.

Update: Well, it was fun while it lasted, the 128GB SSD option is now gone, completely gone at any price. Do let us know if Lenovo honors those orders.

[Thanks, Tobias W. and Sunil]

[steve @ Aug 5th 2008 5:43AM]

Hopefuly lots of people will take advantage of this offer, and that will show Lenovo that there is a strong demand for SSDs, encourageing them to lower the price.

[J. Baker @ Aug 5th 2008 5:51AM]

A strong demand for an a free SSD and $70 in pocket. You'd never have thought that...

[Lazarpandar @ Aug 5th 2008 6:22AM]

So I usually try not to boost myself up to the top by replying to the first comment but I thought this was important enough.
At the bottom of the page, you will read...
"Price does not include tax or shipping & handling and is subject to change without notice. Reseller prices may vary. Lenovo does not warrant non-Lenovo products. PCs shown here ship with an operating system. All offers subject to availability. Lenovo reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice. Lenovo is not responsible for photographic or typographic errors."

[Zach @ Aug 5th 2008 8:51AM]

aw.. it's gone from the selection.

now it just reads all the other options minus the 128gb one..

:(
i think engadget should update us when they're being shipped/if they ever do manage to get shipped.

[Jake @ Aug 5th 2008 8:47AM]

It's completely gone now off the site. Just the 64GB is left.

[NHAnimator @ Aug 5th 2008 9:38AM]

"Lenovo is not responsible for photographic or typographic errors."

If THEY are not responsible, then who the hell is? Do they subcontract their website design to junior highschoolers? Are web hosting companies randomly moving decimal points on people? Is my optometrist the culprit? I want anwdsers.

(NHAnimator is not responsible for psychological or typographic errors.)

[Chuckles McGee @ Aug 5th 2008 10:00AM]

I'm thinking it was supposed to be "add $1700".

[Chuckles McGee @ Aug 5th 2008 10:00AM]

I'm thinking it was supposed to be "add $1700".

[OneLove @ Aug 5th 2008 11:21AM]

am thinking $700.

[OneLove @ Aug 5th 2008 11:26AM]

oops, my bad.

[Rhino @ Aug 6th 2008 10:40AM]

free 64G SSD option came to my email inbox this morning ... Will you guys take it?

[miranon @ Aug 5th 2008 5:44AM]

Wow, wish i had more cash... % )

[LondonConsultant @ Aug 5th 2008 8:00AM]

Just order a truckload of these and resell them for a profit before your credit card payment is due. Economics 101 ;-)

[Alex` @ Aug 5th 2008 5:46AM]

They won't honour it, of course...

[404 @ Aug 5th 2008 5:46AM]

If I had lots of money right now and I was in the States:

1) Order lots of X200's with SSDs.
2) Wait until Lenovo realise their mistake, and hope they deliver anyway.
3) Resell at the fixed price
4) ???
5) Profit!

[Jakob Henner @ Aug 5th 2008 5:51AM]

Or:

1) Order lots of X200's with SSDs
2) Wait until Lenovo realise their mistake and cancel you order(s)
3) Wait for you money to appear on your card
4) Waiting time ...
5) Waste of time

:D

[zomg0t @ Aug 5th 2008 5:53AM]

@ Jakob Henner

Will I still profit...?

[J. Baker @ Aug 5th 2008 5:54AM]

Member of offtopic.com?

[oZone @ Aug 5th 2008 10:45AM]

OT ftw.

[J. Baker @ Aug 5th 2008 5:50AM]

They just won't send them out.

[Muhammed @ Aug 5th 2008 5:52AM]

That is one HUGE Mistake!

[Cassini @ Aug 5th 2008 6:52AM]

Yes, it is! And when Lenovo attempts to cancel the orders of those who are trying to take advantage of it, they're gonna have a lot of angry customers on their hands.

Me thinks some Lenovo webhead is gonna get the scolding of a lifetime. Or maybe demoted.

[neofolklore @ Aug 5th 2008 8:26AM]

or maybe an intern that doesn't give two shits

[chefgon_ign @ Aug 5th 2008 8:46AM]

You'd have to be pretty damned unreasonable to be an "angry customer" when somebody refuses to honor a typo that discounts an item by well over $1000.

[giuliop @ Aug 5th 2008 8:54AM]

@Cassini

Angry because they couldn't exploit an obvious mistake? I'd call them idiots.

[Cassini @ Aug 5th 2008 9:53PM]

"You'd have to be pretty damned unreasonable to be an "angry customer" when somebody refuses to honor a typo that discounts an item by well over $1000."


I'm not suggesting it's right; but unless IBM is playing Santa Claus, right or wrong, they'll have a stack of "unreasonables" to deal with.

------------

"Angry because they couldn't exploit an obvious mistake? I'd call them idiots."

LOL, yeah well, we all know there's no shortage of those, eh?!

[chico @ Aug 5th 2008 5:54AM]

They also list the T9600 as a $150 upgrade and the T9400 as $425.00 for the new models that were just released.

[marko mandaric @ Aug 5th 2008 5:57AM]

purchase complete...



lets see if they ship it.

[Quassum @ Aug 5th 2008 6:11AM]

Hmm curious if it really ships, keep us up to date if you will.

[RC @ Aug 5th 2008 5:57AM]

It's not ethical to encourage people to take advantage of an error like this. Does Engadget support this or is Ricker on his own?

[broli @ Aug 5th 2008 6:07AM]

not ethical???? loooool. Screwing the consumer with overpriced producst, is that ethical to you? And I'm talking about vital products.
Why don't you go hug some more trees and feed some homeless people. In this world it's eat or be eaten. Now Lenovo showed an opening and it's time to attack.

[yoshi @ Aug 5th 2008 6:16AM]

Thanks. I was hoping someone had mentioned this. I was a slightly taken aback when I read that. Boo on you EnGadget.

[zomg0t @ Aug 5th 2008 6:14AM]

Yeah, I'm with broli! Let's eat the homeless!

[PJK @ Aug 5th 2008 6:48AM]

You don't eat them silly, you compress them and burn them for fuel!

[saintchuck @ Aug 5th 2008 7:23AM]

RC/yoshi

Ethics are dead for the most part, unfortunately.

[Will H. @ Aug 5th 2008 7:59AM]

It's unfortunate that a good company like Lenovo is subject to this kind of 'ethical' lapse, if you can call it that. However, I'm a believer that in an open market, you get what you pay for. Obviously they've hired someone who has done a substandard job, or their review process is deficient, which in turn will cause the company to suffer. It's not as if this hasn't happened before.

If you're ethically opposed to taking advantage of their mistake, then by all means, don't buy a X200.

[neofolklore @ Aug 5th 2008 8:28AM]

I actually enjoy feeding the homeless, I stand on a bench on a summer afternoon and throw out sunflower seeds saying "eat, mwuhahaha eat you homeless people"

its a step up from not doing anything.

[Edward Karabinus @ Aug 5th 2008 9:34AM]

Greed is good, ladies and gentleman

[hfm @ Aug 5th 2008 10:56AM]

I agree... Would have been nice for engadet to have just contacted lenovo and let them know about the obvious mistake. But hey, I guess posts like these drive pageviews.. which drive revenue... No harm, no foul if engadget can make money at Lenovo's expense I suppose...

[Marko @ Aug 5th 2008 6:01AM]

right, so some poor secretary can't handle Lenovo's OCP, makes a small mistake: News on Engadget....

[broli @ Aug 5th 2008 6:02AM]

If they don't ship it SUE THEM.

[TRLK @ Aug 5th 2008 6:03AM]

Morality thrown out through the back door I see...

[kevinm @ Aug 5th 2008 6:04AM]

I remember when Apple made an error in the refurbished Macbooks page and listed the prices at $129.90 instead of $1,299.00. Apple actually did good and delivered those who ordered them but I just don't see Lenovo doing the same with a hard drive that costs a couple grand.

[nak @ Aug 5th 2008 6:05AM]

It's too bad they won't honor the price. And honestly, I'm pretty sure they don't have to. It's too obvious that it's a type-o. I just wonder what it was supposed to be. maybe 970 more and they entered -70 by mistake.

[Mark L. @ Aug 5th 2008 6:05AM]

Why would anyone send this as news? Odds are if it was just one or two that caught that mistake they would honor it but not when hundreds of people try buying it.

[Jamma @ Aug 5th 2008 6:15AM]

(maybe) Their loss, everyone else's gain (hopefully)

[nizzy1115 @ Aug 5th 2008 9:45AM]

No kidding thats what i was thinking! There is no way this will go through now.

[Andrew @ Aug 6th 2008 1:42PM]

Exactly. This is something you would mention AFTER your package has been shipped and credit card charged, at the very earliest. What could you possibly gain by giving it wide exposure? That pretty much guarantees that NO ONE will benefit from it - including YOU.

[Michael Nelson @ Aug 5th 2008 6:20AM]

Already down...

Bummer.

[icepop4who @ Aug 5th 2008 6:28AM]

as of now, it's still on