X201s availabili​ty in the U.S.

I am looking for a replacement for my X60s. First thing, that came up into my mind was X201s. I looked at the U.S. Lenovo website and found out that I am not able to order it from there; however, on the U.K. website it is available for order. Then I searched this forum for information, have not found any reasonable explanation. The only thing I found was the assumption that this is because of lack of the i7 processor, but i7 is back in stock, while X201s is not. I continued further my investigation and found post on the Thinkpads.com forum:
“The entire x201s line is discontinued… They are still available among resellers because there are remaining inventories in the resellers channel. I guess I should have made my line more refined. The x201s has been discontinued in the US, at least. Not sure about other countries….”
Do you have any thoughts on that? Was there any confirmation or press release from Lenovo? They have discontinued X300 series, maybe the author of the post got confused, or we will be left without also without X201s, which I consider as THE masterpiece?
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I don't think it's been discontinued, but who knows when we'll see it again.  If you want one eBay is probably your best option.
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