What I was referring to was the fact that all of these later "Assembled in the U.S." machines sport Foxconn boards. I wasn't talking about the dawn of the ThinkPad era, but about T4x/T6x generation.
Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Paul Khoury <[email protected]> To: thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, May 17, 2012 8:40 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen Even on machines going back to the 700, 720C, 755? I know the 300 was made for IBM by someone else. Was it ZDS (Zenith Data Systems), or someone else? Speaking of which, I still have mine in storage, but I'm not sure if it still works; just found my AC adapter. I don't think my 701's are in operable condition, and I still use my 755CE occasionally for connecting to Cisco devices as a console. The 755's were pretty amazing though - I think the only thing that will save me as a customer is if Lenovo does something amazing, otherwise I'll stick with older models until everything is beyond EOL. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 17:06 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen The Scotland plant which is now a call center assembled ThinkPads way into early T4x series. I was told that the small quantities of ThinkPads were assembled in North Carolina...don't know if it's true. The planars are Chinese, Foxconn on all of them, though... Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Paul Khoury <[email protected]> To: thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, May 17, 2012 7:53 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen Makes me wonder where in the US they were assembled, and what parts were actually of US origin. I do remember in the mid-90s when some of the 755's and 701's were also made in Scotland, and IBM even had tech support in neighboring Ireland for a short while (before going to Toronto and RTP). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]?> ] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 14:49 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen You might be surprised to learn that some machines were built there long after Lenovo had acquired the brand. I've just sold a T61 (dated October of 2008) which was "assembled in Mexico of U.S. and non-U.S. components for Lenovo". My X61T bears the same statement on the bottom, build date September of the same year. Furthermore, I've seen and owned (still have 3) a bunch of Lenovo-era units that were "assembled in the U.S. of U.S. and non-U.S. components for Lenovo"... And the beat goes on... Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Berry <[email protected]> To: thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, May 17, 2012 3:56 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen I'm pretty sure that IBM in El Salto, Mexico, near Guadalajara, was in fact run by IBM. -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
