[ltp] Bad news for us ...

[Mendel Cooper]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Bartlomiej Swiercz wrote:

> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14802

Perhaps the focus of this group should shift to Classic Thinkpads,
the ones with tried-and-true Linux support. And, anyhow, from user
comments I've read, the Lenovo Thinkpads seem to be inferior in quality
and features to the classic IBM ones.

The laptop market is a tough one, and Lenovo will find it difficult to
make a profit there, especially if the $100 laptop comes into wide use.
I'll hazard a guess that Lenovo will no longer be manufacturing laptop
within a couple of years, and that by then their obsolete laptops
will have been reverse engineered to provide Linux support anyhow.