[ltp] considering t43p... is the lenovo quality okay?

[James Knott]

Don Perley wrote:
> Ferdinand Haselbacher (jr.) wrote:
> 
>>
>> I don't really now one PC brand (maybe DELL) who's making
>> their hardware all on their own. there are imho 3 big chinese
>> companies who
>> do the hardware for the big ones (HPQ, Acer, ....IBM,....)
>>  
>>
> Didn't Acer start out as an outsource manufacturer (one client being IBM)?

Yep and they produced the horrible "i" series, which is one ThinkPad
line I didn't want to have anything to do with.  There have been a
couple of examples when IBM tried to go down market and failed.  Anyone
remember "ValuePoint" (IIRC), which were junk desktop systems?