From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 14:01:47 EDT
At 09:20 PM 04/03/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>| I think what people object to is that IBM is watering-down their
>| ThinkPad brand name with the i-series--that is, the "i's" aren't really
>| "worthy" of being called a ThinkPad. Its like Mercedes coming out with a
>| $10,000 economy car. They just wouldn't do it--at least if they did, they
>| wouldn't give it the Mercedes brand name. "ThinkPad" was a premium line
>| name--and it was well-deserved. Somewhere along the road, IBM seems to
>| have forgotten that.
>
>This reminds me of 1993, when Chevrolet dropped a slightly de-tuned Corvette
>engine in a Z28 for half the price of the Vette. Boy, that really
>pissed-off those Vette owners. As an IBM stockholder, I applaud IBM for
>competing with the Dell Inspirion. It's a win-win for everyone, especially
>the consumer.
Except the more apt analogy in the Thinkpad/i-series comparison
would be if Chevrolet just made up another car similar to the Camaro and
called it a "Corvette i-series". THAT would piss off Corvette owners
because it is *NOT* a Corvette. By the same token, the i's really are
*not* ThinkPads, despite that IBM called them such. The only similarity
they share is that both machines are black.
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