William Sutton wrote: > I'd just like to point out that there is a very large difference between > manufacturing a laptop to someone's spec and designing that laptop and > manufacturing it according to your own spec. At the moment companies are > building ThinkPads (and other IBM hardware) according to IBM's design. My > understanding is that Lenovo is taking over the design part (the > manufacturing already belonging to non-IBM companies). Thus there is a > potential for the design quality to drop off.
My one hope is that since Lenovo is already building the majority of Laptops for IBM, and since they are picking up a large fraction of the design and engineering people from the IBM PC Business, the same high quality will continue. At least I can hope it will. --[Lance] -- Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
