Lenovo completes purchase of IBM's PC biz
Chinese-based Lenovo formally completed its purchase of IBM's PC division this past weekend, instantly becoming the world's third-largest PC manufacturer after Dell and HP. It's sort of business as usual over there—much of the old IBM management team is now running the show at Lenovo now, and they've already launched a US version of their website highlighting their newly acquired ThinkPad and ThinkCentre PC lines (still with IBM logos on 'em)—but it'll probably be a few more weeks or months until we see the very first models that are wholly a product of the newly merged company.
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Rick James @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM
So they still look like they were designed in 1985 then!
Jeff @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM
"So they still look like they were designed in 1985 then!"
This coming from a guy who chose "Rick James" as his alias.
OddManOut @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM
""So they still look like they were designed in 1985 then!"
This coming from a guy who chose "Rick James" as his alias."
Maybe that's the point. Maybe he's not being sarcastic but is actually HAPPY that they're gonna look 80's.
Or that could actually be his name...niether the first or the last is uncommon. Heck if there's a 'Mike Rowe' out there with a small start-up SOFTware company anything is possible.
As for the Lenovo take over, so what...this just means the millions of dollars in profit end up in different coffers, but in coffers none the less ? Uh...OK...
Perhaps it's significant that they're 'Off Shore' coffers...
It will be interesting to see if in 1 - 2 generations of NEW hardware if the quality/design trend changes much...
Rick James @ Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM
If I was looking for an alias it would be something cheasy like Max Power. I'm sorry if your head of industrial design at IBM Jeff!