[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Winsley von Spee]

Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 12:52 -0500 schrieb Richard Harding:
> Winsley von Spee wrote:
> 
> >Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 08:30 -0800 schrieb Michelle Klein-Hass:
> >  
> >
> >>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.
> >>-- 
> >>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.
> >
> >
> >Greetz
> >
> >  
> >
> 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

That's exactly what I think. I would never change my tp for any other
laptop (exept it's black with three letters on it). And I have never
seen another laptop running linux like an tp. You can even turn the tp
light on and off from the console thats a very cool feature ;).

Greetz