[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Patrick Huber]

a sweet notebook is probably out of range for a project like timothy miller's 
idea of an open source graphics card... 
http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics

it would be a nice thing, though.
imagine having a standarts conform acpi implementation :-)

Am Freitag, 03. Dezember 2004 20.37 schrieb 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