[ltp] Bad news for us ...

[Don Perley]

Mendel Cooper wrote:

> 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.

By "there" do you mean the general laptop market, or for sale in China? 
Thinkpad has always been positioned in the higher end of the market, and 
had long been the profitable part of IBM's PC family.