Hi Fedora community,
Just wanted to drop a note to the community as I'm sure you're wondering
where the P1G2 and P53 are with the web sales. It's been a frustrating
experience and we've been working past issue after issue for weeks but
it looks like we hit the wall today.
One of the major issues we've been fighting with the web sales is the
lack of inventory. Covid (whilst also adding delays to the whole
project) hit our supply chains and whilst I don't understand all the
details the summary is we don't have enough components left to put these
systems up on the web. You may have noticed the Windows systems have
been pulled - this is not Linux specific.
We have looked at instead of doing full configuration as planned if we
could put up a few fixed configurations instead and at least get
something up for the short term but it seems that even that is not
possible with the stock we have.
I know John Trapasso (who joined me at Nest) is still looking into other
options. We believe we can make it so systems can be ordered by calling
the phone support line - there they line are able to identify exactly
which components are available and build the system with the Linux
option. But it's not the same as having them up online and generally
available as we'd planned for and wanted which is massively disappointing.
My sincere and complete apologies to the community. From my point of
view it sucks as so much work and effort went into getting these
platforms ready. Whilst I've learnt a lot about Lenovo process for the
future platforms the key lesson (which with hindsight should have been
obvious) is that trying to release something new towards the end of its
lifecycle is a bad idea.....I just wish someone had told me that back in
February (there are so many things I wish I knew about in February but
that's another story).
We have prioritized getting the P1G3 and the P15 (successor to the P53)
done with Fedora - those are entering test very shortly and fingers,
legs and eyes are crossed for a smooth passage. I've been using the P1G3
with Fedora33 preview and it's looking good. I can't give a date yet but
we're moving as fast as we can on them.
I've seen some really positive reviews for the Fedora experience on the
X1 Carbon 8 - I'm so glad that is up successfully and seems to be doing
well. We are working on getting that out to the worldwide sites.
Do let me know any questions. Once again I apologise to all those who
helped us on the way - the next round will go smoother.
Mark
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