Thinkpad Quality

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From: Robert Rosen (rrosen_at_arl.mil)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 19:32:27 EDT


Steve Andre' wrote in part:
I've seen recent examples of 600's and 770
types not being built right, either lately--which adds to my feelings that
IBM has more and more of a manufacturing problem these days.

You may or may not know that IBM has outsourced some of its manufacturing
to the large resellers so they can
"produce product" on demand. So not all Thinkpads are manufactured by
IBM. I wonder how much of the
"manufacturing problem" is due to that?
________________________
Robert Rosen
Army Research Lab


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