I'm curious...does anyone have some statistics on which manufacturers make how much of which IBM PC parts? I was rather under the impression that my employer made the bulk of IBM's stuff. (I do not work for Lenovo)
William On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Lance A. Brown wrote: > 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] > -- 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
