is this the same lenovo company whose employees were found astroturfing on Tech Republic?
IME, the original IBM designed and built ones were the best, I had a few and still have a very old 380ED, very solid!
Since the Lenovo take-over it's only the more expensive models which still live (mostly) up to the build quality.
Lets face it, they must have cost IBM too much to make, and people didn't change them too often because they were well made, the market was too competitive, so they sold it on to Lenovo who reckoned on being able to make them cheaper and more profitably. It's a tough proposition, the fine balance between over-engineering something which only needs to last three years till obsolescence and costing too much.
I think that was always true. Really the X and T series are the premium built portables. The rest of the line target cost, or desktop replacement and are better than the competition in those segments, but the X and T series are the real gems. It always was that way.
Also, remember it is the exact same design team and the exact same support staff of the IBM days. Lenovo wasn't so stupid to buy a world renowned brand and run it into the ground by changing quality of build and service.
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is this the same lenovo company whose employees were found astroturfing on Tech Republic?
IME, the original IBM designed and built ones were the best, I had a few and still have a very old 380ED, very solid!
Since the Lenovo take-over it's only the more expensive models which still live (mostly) up to the build quality.
Lets face it, they must have cost IBM too much to make, and people didn't change them too often because they were well made, the market was too competitive, so they sold it on to Lenovo who reckoned on being able to make them cheaper and more profitably. It's a tough proposition, the fine balance between over-engineering something which only needs to last three years till obsolescence and costing too much.
I think that was always true. Really the X and T series are the premium built portables. The rest of the line target cost, or desktop replacement and are better than the competition in those segments, but the X and T series are the real gems. It always was that way.
Also, remember it is the exact same design team and the exact same support staff of the IBM days. Lenovo wasn't so stupid to buy a world renowned brand and run it into the ground by changing quality of build and service.