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Lenovo's New PCs and Laptops

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tue Feb 28, 2006 04:17 AM
from the target-thinkpad-acquired dept.
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pimpimpim writes "WebWire is reporting that Lenovo has introduced their 3000 line, a budget line of PCs and notebooks." From the article: "Researchers, scientists and product design teams from China, Japan and the U.S. combined Lenovo's heritage in enterprise and consumer PC technology to design an optimal computing experience for small businesses. The Lenovo 3000 product line features several new desktop and notebook models with the latest processor technologies in a new silver chassis."

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music_lover writes "According to this article, Lenovo is losing current ThinkPad series customers to HP, Toshiba and other notebook vendors because of customer perception. Apparently, customers don't feel comfortable purchasing from a Chinese PC manufacturer now that the ThinkPad brand isn't supported by IBM anymore. Could this really be perception? Quote: "Despite the overall poor performance, Lenovo has still not gained the mindshare or the respect that the ThinkPads command. In fact, it has, to some extent, alienated ThinkPad's fans and taken a sales hit. In my immediate vicinity, those who owned ThinkPads have now traded up to an HP or a Toshiba. None of them went back to their ThinkPads. After asking for a clarification, I was told, "Who wants to buy things from a Chinese company?" That said, our corporate parent has continued to buy/use Thinkpads; the ones that I've seen do just fine, and they've added new machines and a parternership with AMD.
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  • You were great while it lasted.

    Look back in a year or two and see how many of the think* lines remain, my bet is one or two models of each just to keep the enterprise's whith competent it managment, and the cheap ones for the rest.
  • C|net had a story [com.com] on this a while back too, and with pictures [com.com]. Can't help feel that these are not going to offer the rock solid reliability that IBM's are/were known for.

    • Ugly! (Score:2)

      by dorkygeek (898295)
      Ugh. They're. Ugly.

    • Can't help feel that these are not going to offer the rock solid reliability that IBM's are/were known for.
      Especially since the Intel desktops (J100) will use a SiS chipset (SiS 661) and the AMD desktops (J105) will use a VIA chipset (K8M800). The note
  • Remember when GM and Ford used to positively dominate the US car market, until the Japanese came in during the 70s? Datsun absolutely destroyed muscle car sales, and Honda made the econobox a reality.

    Fast forward today, and now we have Dell, the GM of cars
    • As a Mac user, I tend to find super-cheap computers just disgusting, but I can't help but look at Lenovo's upcoming N100 with envious eyes.

      Reminds you all the more of how much you're overpaying?

      LK
        • Certain Mac models are more expensive than comparable Dell (or Levono) models, and vice versa.

          I'd never buy a Dell either. The difference is that I can and have built my own Windows/Linux PC that is faster, cheaper and more reliable than an equivalent Dell

  • No Track Point? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by tux_deamon (663650) on Tuesday February 28 2006, @04:43AM (#14815136)

    More info and pics [notebookreview.com] on the new Lenovo's.

    No Track Point?

    • Re:No Track Point? (Score:2, Insightful)

      by mebob (57853)
      Looks more like they bought dell!

      Why would they do this? Looks like they are ditching every thing they bought from IBM. What exactly did they buy?

      Doen't look like I'll be getting a thinkpad again.
      • They bought one of their biggest competitors into nonexistence.

        And they bought partial IBM ownership of them, which will keep IBM tech flowing into their more competitive operation.
    • It's sad but the Track Point is pretty much gone. Consumers basically are saying that they don't want them. What hapened? Three things:

      1. The early Track Points had a few issues. This really isn't that big of a point because most of these were fixed ra
      • Consumers basically are saying that they don't want them. What hapened?

        Nothing of the sort. Everybody I have ever seen using ThinkPads for a long time is pretty much addicted to the thing. All of the new combo trackpoint/touchpad units at my clients' have

          • They aren't addicted, they've just been forced to use it for so long that they no longer remember how much better a touchpad is.

            Right. That is why when offered, by all the combo pointer system ThinkPads in the last 3 years, the "thrilling", "exciting", "s

          • I'm going to have to weigh in on the side of the trackpoint. I suppose I've never been forced to use a touchpad for any long period of time, so perhaps I might come to like it as much.
            I suppose using a trackpoint has a longer training perio
      • I wish they would bring it back already!

        I loathe those Alps trackpads. There is something about them that makes them hard to use - once you disable tapping (so you can't mistakenly drag stuff around when you lift your finger by accident) and get over the f
  • I've been a ThinkPad fan for a while now and just bought some new ones for my wife and myself. I really hope Lenovo keeps up the quality that they (thinkpads) have been known for. Time will only tell, I guess. I'll be looking for reviews and user comments
  • Wife just got a brand new T43 from work - and I gotta say that it absolutely blows my Inspiron away in terms of weight, performance, heat management and most especially 'solidity' (despite being lighter). Heretofore they've done well with what IBM gave th
    • Comparing the T series to an Inspirion is like comparing apples (not Apples) to twinkies. Inspirion laptops are the Dell consumer grade machines. They are flimsy and heavy compared the Dell Latitudes.

      Latitudes are nice machines, though not nearly as nice a
  • They took out the trackpoint, switched to an awkward front-loading cd drive, shrank the keyboard and didn't use
    the latest cpus.

    This doesn't look like an ad for lenovo to me. This looks like an advertisement for apple.

  • I believe it's the first one released by Lenovo that IBM didn't offer. Fantastic computer. Very Linux friendly, nice keyboard, built like a tank. Hihgly recommended.
  • Compared to Dell, these are still overpriced for the features offered, but there are a slew of budget PC makers, not to mention that your local ma and pa computer store could setup a better system for the same money.

      • Re:Specs... (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Biomechanical (829805)

        I did miss the budget line bit, mea culpa, but that still doesn't mean they can't be using Turion 64 ML-28's and MT-28's, or Athlon 64 3200+'s (939pin) in the desktops.

        Maybe not the dual-core Intel's, fair enough, but 17 inch screens shouldn't be ignor

      • I've tried all the consumer Panasonic Toughbooks out in Japan (and will probably buy one after my 700Mhz Fujitsu B-Series gets too slow!). They are terrific. Amazingly light and built well. The only downside is that they don't make any widescreen models (t
      • So, the company offering first line of "Thinkpad" they purchased from the ORIGINAL PC INVENTOR, IBM and showing a glimpse of future products, where they are headed etc doesn't interest you?

        Fun new products from Apple are real funny btw ;)

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