[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[James Knott]

Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
> On Friday 03 December 2004 07:48 am, T. Ivarsson wrote:
> 
>> ...including laptops?
>>
>>http://slashdot.org/articles/04/12/03/1328204.shtml?tid=136&tid=137
> 
> 
> This sucks. It's not a hoax, it's all too real.
> 
> Remember the i-series ThinkPads? The ones that Acer designed and built and IBM 
> just slapped a badge on? That's where the line is headed. Nobody else is 
> going to care about the ThinkPad legacy like IBM does.
> 
> Dammit, Sam Palmisano!!! Who dealt you the crack you were smoking when you 
> made this decision? Darl McBride??? OMG you killed the ThinkPad! You 
> bastard!!!
> 
> (Sorry, I'm a ThinkPad fangirl and this is really emotionally troubling news.)
> 
> An upset Michelle.

One thing that the ThinkPads have, is the TrackPoint.  I find it's the 
best pointer method for notebooks, and the Toshiba version isn't 
anywhere near as good.

As for Linux support, I guess HP is the best bet, after IBM.