Introducing the Best Designed Workstation Ever - ThinkStation P series

We are extremely proud to announce the new ThinkStation P series workstations.  This is the culmination of nearly two years of work by our collective teams, and to say that we're excited about this launch would be putting it mildly.  This is essentially the first full clean-sheet redesign of the platforms since the release of the very first ThinkStations.
More info can be found here:
https://www.thinkworkstations.com/
On Twitter:
@ThinkStations  #ThinkPSeries 
Feel free to post comments and any questions.  I'll try to respond as best I can.  More info to come.

The new Thinkstation series look incredible and are a genuine work of art in my opinion. I'm just blown away by this and have registered specifically to congratulate all those who were involved. This brings me onto a very important question. I will be looking to upgrade our hardware in the next few weeks and really need to know when this will be available to buy in the UK. Can anyone kindly try and shed some light on this. I phoned the UK Lenovo sales line and they said it may not even be this side of Christmas, but I'm not 100% sure if they understood which machine I was referring to.
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