Does this include HP Compaqs, or just their consumer line? As for ThinkPads, were they ever manufactured by IBM themselves when they were made in places like Scotland, Japan, Mexico, and the US? Think back to 1993-1999ish. And I remember on the bottom, there seemed to be a difference - made FOR IBM, and made BY IBM.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Bay Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:33 To: Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E]; thinkpad Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen Yet, look how HP has stuck itself in a big hole with bad motherboards and bad screens... where they make their computers in 7 different countries... but the failure rates seem to be the same in all of them... Matched only by the no-name brands, it seems. Look what eMachines did to the laptop market before they stopped making them, and what they are still doing to the desktop market. One would think all these companies would get together on approaches to quality. On laptops, however, Most of the laptops sold in the world, except for Sony and HP, are made in one huge row of buildings that are connected, regardless of the name brand that goes on them. I am told that most of the Lenovo's are now made in that same system... except for a very few models. If you want a real adventure, take your vacation to China and see what profits are doing to us. We market to sales teams, and it is clear that most Lenovos are no better than the others nowadays... when once upon a time, it was easy to sell a high quality higher profit Thinkpad because they were the best RB Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] < [email protected]> wrote: > Blame it on the LCD manufacturers. They've revamped their production > lines for HDTV screens where the volume is. Volume is king in making screens. > So the PC manufacturers have little choice but to follow. Could they > pay lots more and get hi-res screens? I suppose but PCs are still a > price sensitive market. High cost laptops won't sell in sufficient > volume to make it worthwhile to the vendors. > > This is what the vendors tell me. > > _______________________ > Robert Rosen > Senior Technical Advisor, NIAMS > Sent from the portable shiny device > > > Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:46:33 -0500 > From: Rob Bell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen > To: Lee Stewart <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> > Cc: thinkpad <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I've been baffled by the continue downward spiral of resolution for > years now. I enjoyed the pinnacle of things with 1600x1200 Flexview > screens and 1920x1200 wide screen LCDs on laptops like the T61p and > Dell M6300. Since people generally don't like the lower resolutions > the only thing I can think is that it is a cost/profit situation. I'm > with you too, in that I never watch movies on a computer. What the > heck value is there in HD resolutions that are less spacious than the > prior generations of screens? > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > -- ** The future ain't what it used to be. ... .... ..... ...... Yogi Berra _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
