I've been using Lenovo kit for years, originally purchased from IBM - and it's generally reasonably decent hardware - as for the bloatware, I kill it all when I boot the system for the first time. It takes a couple of beers to work through it but it's not that different from every other PC I've worked with - they are all bloatware ridden when they arrive at the door.
In the US $40 will get me about two dozen Newcastle Brown Ales - sounds like a deal to me.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
