United States Announcement 908-050, dated March 25, 2008

Hardware withdrawal: Selected ThinkPad notebook computers — Replacements available

Withdrawn products ...... 2 Overview Direct customer support ...... 3 Effective April 30, 2008, May 20, 2008, or May 31, 2008, Lenovo™ will withdraw from marketing the products listed in the Withdrawn products section. After that date, these products can be obtained on an as-available basis through authorized distributors and resellers, and from Direct Response Marketing while supplies last.

Replacement product information

Withdrawn product Replacement product

Lenovo 3000 Series Lenovo 3000 Series (New models) ThinkPad(R) X Series ThinkPad X Series (New models) ThinkPad R Series ThinkPad R Series (New models) ThinkPad T Series ThinkPad T Series (New models)

Lenovo United States 908-050 Lenovo is a trademark of Lenovo 1 Withdrawn products

Lenovo 3000 Series

The following models will be withdrawn on May 20, 2008. U.S. machines

Ordering part number M/T MOD

07642WU 0764 2WU 0769ATU 0769 ATU 0769AUU 0769 AUU

ThinkPad X Series

The following X Series models will be withdrawn on May 20, 2008. Canada English and French machines

Ordering part number M/T MOD

776244U 7762 44U 776299U 7762 99U The following U.S. X Series machines to be withdrawn May 31, 2008. U.S. English machines

Ordering part number M/T MOD

76663EU 7666 3EU 76663FU 7666 3FU 76673EU 7667 3EU 76673FU 7667 3FU 767366U 7673 66U 767374U 7673 74U 767466U 7674 66U 767474U 7674 74U

ThinkPad R Series

U.S. machines The following models will be withdrawn on April 30, 2008.

Ordering part number M/T MOD

893622U 8936 22U 893722U 8937 22U The following models will be withdrawn on May 20, 2008.

Ordering part number M/T MOD

7650DGU 7650 DGU 7650DHU 7650 DHU 77322FU 7732 2FU

Lenovo United States 908-050 Lenovo is a trademark of Lenovo 2 77322KU 7732 2KU 77331EU 7733 1EU 773412U 7734 12U 77351EU 7735 1EU 77431JU 7743 1JU 77511JU 7751 1JU 8932FWU 8932 FWU 8932FXU 8932 FXU The following models will be withdrawn on May 31, 2008.

Ordering part number M/T MOD

7734N3U 7734 N3U

ThinkPad T Series

The following models will be withdrawn on May 31, 2008. U.S. machines

Ordering part number M/T MOD

646001U 6460 01U 646503U 6465 03U 889201U 8892 01U 889202U 8892 02U 88952ZU 8895 2ZU 88985BU 8898 5BU 88985TU 8898 5TU 765804U 7658 04U 766406U 7664 06U 7658RUU 7658 RUU 7658RVU 7658 RVU 7664RWU 7664 RWU 7664RYU 7664 RYU

Direct customer support

The question submission function under IBMLink™ Ask Question-Support for this product is being withdrawn. New questions will be accepted until March 25, 2008. The IBMLink SupportLink library of answered questions and other technical information for the product remains available. Trademarks

IBMLink is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.

Lenovo is a trademark of Lenovo in the United States, other countries, or both

ThinkPad is a registered trademark of Lenovo in the United States, other countries, or both

Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your Lenovo representative, call 866-96THINK, or visit the Lenovo home page at: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/

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