First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU

> So when my regular HW-pusher had a T14s G6 with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU, for only EUR1000 + VAT, and I couldn't resist.

I wonder where Poul-Henning, who is based in Denmark, got that price. Perhaps he managed to get US pricing.

Lenovo EU are notorious for charging a ton of money for new models with limited supply. And poor after-market support, as everything is outsourced.

He's running a business, so, perhaps he got some kind of business pricing?

As I was working in Denmark, we had a lot of Lenovo resellers providing better offers than the normal list prices. This was a couple of years ago, maybe this is still the case.

I just checked and the laptop can be had for $1036 USD or €1809 (includes 21% VAT), and the configurator doesn't even allow adding more than the soldered-on base 16GB of RAM. You can save yourself €500 and get 768GB of additional SSD storage by going HP, or save yourself €400 and get a 32GB model.

What an absolute shitshow. I'm surprised Lenovo sells laptops in Europe with these prices.

Or fly to the US, get a hotel and meal for two for the night, and fly back with change for just one laptop purchase.

When VAT incentivises people to essentially take their holidays outside the EU - not even incentivises, subsidises(!) - VAT's too high.

Oh FFS! Round up the US cost, converted to Euros, to 1000. What's 21% on top of that? I refuse to believe that's a difficult calculation for anyone.

The additional cost is obviously not just from VAT.

It is not easy to do this. A friend learned the hard way. She was visiting the US and needed a laptop. Their online shop doesn't take foreign cards, probably to prevent price arbitrage. Lots of Reddit posts confirm the problem. You can always go to a bricks-and-mortar but model selection is more limited, especially in case of exotic SKUs.