[jyl]

Looking a little lower in the Lenovo workstation lineup will save me a bundle and maybe I won't be "over-buying" for my needs. I will lose the option for a third graphics card, so no 12-monitor setup for me :-(

Model: P360
CPU: Intel i9-12900K (E-cores up to 3.90 GHz P-cores up to 5.10 GHz)
DRAM: 8 GB (I'll add 64GB at Crucial.com, instead of paying Lenovo prices)
Graphics: nVIDIA T1000 x 2
Storage: M.2 SSD 1TB x 2 (RAID 0), SATA HDD 1TB x 2 (RAID 0)
O/S: Win 10 64 PRO (I use Win 10 Pro now, not sure why I should move to 11)
Other: DVD, mouse, WiFi, HDMI port
Support: 3 year on-site

This is about $2,171 with the current promotion. I may be able to get it a little cheaper through a friend's IBM discount. Okay, that seems pretty reasonable- oh WAIT. Looking at my records, I paid $1,659 on Feb 24, 2020 for my current machine, which is a P330. Xeon E-2224G, T1000 x2, 512DB SSD x 2, no HDD, think I bought with 8GB DRAM. It is a little disappointing that the price I'm looking at now is significantly higher than 3 years ago, and the current machine has a Xeon CPU which was more expensive than the Core then (and now). I think Feb 24 was before the brief Covid crash in PC prices. Hmm - if I'm paying 30% more now, I think PC prices may not have fully crashed.