[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Richard Harding]

Winsley von Spee wrote:

>Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 08:30 -0800 schrieb Michelle Klein-Hass:
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>>On Friday 03 December 2004 07:48 am, T. Ivarsson wrote:
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>>> ...including laptops?
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>>>http://slashdot.org/articles/04/12/03/1328204.shtml?tid=136&tid=137
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>>This sucks. It's not a hoax, it's all too real.
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>>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.
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>>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!!!
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>>(Sorry, I'm a ThinkPad fangirl and this is really emotionally troubling news.)
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>>An upset Michelle.
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>>Michelle Klein-Hass
>>Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273
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>That would be to bad. The problem is, that IBM's job is too make money
>and in these day you can not do big money with good products. Quality is
>expensive and the People want something cheap perhaps just because it's
>cheap. Here in Germany there is an electronic discounter wich claims
>"costiveness is horny". That is too bad.
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>Greetz
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Yea, but the thinkpad is one area where people are willing to put up the 
extra $$ for a high quality laptop. I've owned cheap toshiba & gateway 
laptops in the past, but none come close the the quality of my Thinkpad. 
It'll be really sad if the quality goes downhill with a new company as I 
vowed never to purchase anything but  another thinkpad after I bought 
this one.

Rick