[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Noah Dain]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:25:59 +0100, Winsley von Spee
<winsley@vonspee.com> wrote:
> 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
> > >>Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >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
> 
> 
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this . . . just plain sux.

every cheap ass manufacturer and their dog's cousin makes/markets
cheap ass laptops.

some of us need _real_ machines that we can depend upon.

oh, I hope someone starts an internet petition.

--
Noah Dain