Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Lenovo Droping IBM Faster Than Expected

You know how Lenovo (big Chinese PC manufacturer) went and bought IBM's PC division - well they've been releasing new IBM branded and Lenovo branded laptops for a while now... and foolishly they are going to drop the IBM name from there products... How stupid can you get? IBMs are well known to produce good laptops year after year after year, in fact, if you buy an old laptop, then a very good choice, is an old IBM laptop... getting rid of the IBM thinkpad series will give Lenovo less brand recognition than companies like Acer and ASUS, (Acer and ASUS produce decent OEM (no-name) style laptops that are generally reliable, as they tend to manufacture stuff for everybody else, including Apple). So when the IBM Thinkpad brand is gone, who will be left with a good name in the laptop market? Toshiba and Dell from the looks of things...

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