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expired Posted by dmgdev • Sep 23, 2023

Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Tiny Workstation i9-13900T 64GB (30H00016US) $1919

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Part Number: 30H00016US

Processor : 13th Generation Intel® Core™ i9-13900T vPro® Processor (E-cores up to 3.90 GHz P-cores up to 5.10 GHz)
Operating System : Windows 11 Pro 64
Graphic Card : NVIDIA® T1000 8GB GDDR6
Memory : 64 GB DDR5-4800MHz (SODIMM) - (2 x 32 GB)
Storage : 1 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC Opal
AC Adapter / Power Supply : 230W
Pointing Device : USB Optical Mouse
Keyboard : USB, Traditional, Black - English (US)
Networking : Integrated Ethernet
Wireless : Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201 2x2 AX & Bluetooth® 5.1 or above
Warranty : 3 Years On-site
Mounting / Stand Option : Vertical Stand Tiny

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo...2862366171

Lenovo was just selling this on their site at a major discount as well, but it appears they've taken it down. I was able to order on Walmart which states there weren't many left. Lenovo's site does say they price match, however.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/wo...30h00016us
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Part Number: 30H00016US

Processor : 13th Generation Intel® Core™ i9-13900T vPro® Processor (E-cores up to 3.90 GHz P-cores up to 5.10 GHz)
Operating System : Windows 11 Pro 64
Graphic Card : NVIDIA® T1000 8GB GDDR6
Memory : 64 GB DDR5-4800MHz (SODIMM) - (2 x 32 GB)
Storage : 1 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC Opal
AC Adapter / Power Supply : 230W
Pointing Device : USB Optical Mouse
Keyboard : USB, Traditional, Black - English (US)
Networking : Integrated Ethernet
Wireless : Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201 2x2 AX & Bluetooth® 5.1 or above
Warranty : 3 Years On-site
Mounting / Stand Option : Vertical Stand Tiny

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo...2862366171

Lenovo was just selling this on their site at a major discount as well, but it appears they've taken it down. I was able to order on Walmart which states there weren't many left. Lenovo's site does say they price match, however.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/wo...30h00016us
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about 1 year ago
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dmgdev
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about 1 year ago
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Lenovo's reference site doesn't even have this computer listed yet. Closest specifications I can find are the model sold in Canada. 30H00016CA
https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/T...30H00016CA
about 1 year ago
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HonestSink4265
about 1 year ago
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Not sure how good a deal that is, but damn that's a lot of computer in that size package.
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dmgdev
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Quote from HonestSink4265 :
Not sure how good a deal that is, but damn that's a lot of computer in that size package.
On price alone, it's a great deal or re-sell opportunity. I wanted something I could put in a rack or small form that I could run a home lab with Ubuntu and Kubernetes - and one that is quiet with lower power requirements. I don't care about gaming or graphics.

I spent a week comparing this to: Mac Mini, or SBC clusters (mostly Orange Pi), and came to conclude this was the way to go. I think my days of building custom machines are done. SBCs for tinkering are okay, but most aside from the RaspPi are difficult and undocumented.

Mac Mini or Studio was tough to compare against. For one, the M1 and M2 have everything soldered and must be purchased. Also, if you try to build a Mini or Studio that can compete in specs with this Lenovo, you'll quickly see that it will be over $4k and you'll end up paying a lot more for better graphics processing.

Found another person with similar intentions: https://williamlam.com/2023/09/es...-tiny.html
Last edited by dmgdev September 23, 2023 at 12:13 PM.
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t_c
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Quote from dmgdev :
On price alone, it's a great deal or re-sell opportunity. I wanted something I could put in a rack or small form that I could run a home lab with Ubuntu and Kubernetes - and one that is quiet with lower power requirements. I don't care about gaming or graphics.

I spent a week comparing this to: Mac Mini, or SBC clusters (mostly Orange Pi), and came to conclude this was the way to go. I think my days of building custom machines are done. SBCs for tinkering are okay, but most aside from the RaspPi are difficult and undocumented.

Mac Mini or Studio was tough to compare against. For one, the M1 and M2 have everything soldered and must be purchased. Also, if you try to build a Mini or Studio that can compete in specs with this Lenovo, you'll quickly see that it will be over $4k and you'll end up paying a lot more for better graphics processing.

Found another person with similar intentions: https://williamlam.com/2023/09/es...-tiny.html
Are used rack servers off the table for your use case? I've found them to be the best bang for the buck for my homelab by far. For example, my virtualization server (Proxmox) has 2x Intel Xeon E5-2699 with 18 cores/36 threads each and 512GB ECC RAM & 4x 10Gb adapters and it's got out of band IPMI management, which is nice. It was $680 on eBay. Granted, it's a big and loud 30" deep 1u with very low Wife Acceptance Factor, but it was cheap for 72 threads of virtualization goodness. :-)
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Quote from t_c :
Are used rack servers off the table for your use case? I've found them to be the best bang for the buck for my homelab by far. For example, my virtualization server (Proxmox) has 2x Intel Xeon E5-2699 with 18 cores/36 threads each and 512GB ECC RAM & 4x 10Gb adapters and it's got out of band IPMI management, which is nice. It was $680 on eBay. Granted, it's a big and loud 30" deep 1u with very low Wife Acceptance Factor, but it was cheap for 72 threads of virtualization goodness. :-)
No, not at all. I strongly considered this and prefer a rack setup. In the past this was the route I would take, and would build custom 1U or 2U servers. But to be honest, my home would sound like a data-center and those fans would be screaming like a jet engine. I was single then. Now married and in an apartment. I don't have much space and wanted something relatively quiet, with lower power and cooling requirements.
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t_c
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Quote from dmgdev :
No, not at all. I strongly considered this and prefer a rack setup. In the past this was the route I would take, and would build custom 1U or 2U servers. But to be honest, my home would sound like a data-center and those fans would be screaming like a jet engine. I was single then. Now married and in an apartment. I don't have much space and wanted something relatively quiet, with lower power and cooling requirements.
I hear ya— up until recently my setup was NUCs, SBCs, and rooted NASs for those same reasons. Homelab on compadre!
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Little812
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Circle back in two years when it's ~$300 on eBay.
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karkouti
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Such a powerful little machine. If it matters to anyone here this runs on the Intel Q670 chipset and doesn't support ECC memory.
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Quote from Little812 :
Circle back in two years when it's ~$300 on eBay.
Will probably take longer than two years to hit that price point, but tech is always a depreciating asset.
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Quote from karkouti :
Such a powerful little machine. If it matters to anyone here this runs on the Intel Q670 chipset and doesn't support ECC memory.
It's definitely helpful information. I initially was excited since the i9 supports ECC, but of course they had to use a chipset that didn't. 😒
I wish the industry would just make this shift already. Seems like hardly the extra cost these days
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