[ltp] Valence Technology battery update: the replacement arrives, and runs.

morpheus linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:53:30 -0500


According to the New York Times, less than 25% of IBM PC division
employees are based in the US, and they do only design and marketing.
40% of the employees are currently based in China.


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 06:47 -0800, Ken Firestone wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
>    On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> 
>    > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:02:44 -0600 (CST)
>    > Satish Balay <balay@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>    >
>    > > For one - the current thinkpads (as in my T40) are already made in
>    > > China.
>    >
>    > I just looked at a couple of the ones here in the living room.
>    >
>    > TP 240 - Made in Taiwan
>    > TP 570E - Made in Mexico
>    > TP X22 - Made in Korea
>    >
>    >  ... so they've been made all over the darned place for a while.
> 
>    to add one more to the list
>     TP 600E - Made in Mexico
> 
> X31 - Made in China
> 
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