On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:42 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > Personally, I am not biased against the Chinese but Chinese goods tend > to have the "cheap" feel to them and I think that they have definitely > lowered the quality and have cut costs at the same time while trying > to improve their margins. > > What say the group?
Its not a bias. No matter what, Lenovo will find it very hard to match the quality and reliability of an IBM. Besides, remember all the new machines have to be designed by them, That said, with the purchase, they also picked up the IBM workforce that worked in the PC division. I would take a cautious approach though, This was a Major factor in me deciding to pick up an ACER laptop instead of the thinkpad. And for the last 3 months I do not regret it @ all ....I should add an interesting note. All the SUN engineers down in australia work with acers 64 bit machines. Apparently the acer amd64 laptop is a very popular machine @ Sun Micro (for the engineers in australia at least). So much so, that Solaris code is now written by the engineers on these machines (personal laptops) and then ported onto SPARC... -Erle -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
