Re: [Thinkpad] wireless card, x31, 1802

David Ross schreef:

>USA Today had an article this week about the 'new' CEO of the TP
>division of Lenovo:
>
>http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/2005-07-24-lenovo-cover_x.htm
>
>
>
Interesting.

> desks in the company's headquarters, perched on the top floor of a
> glass office building near IBM's offices in suburban New York, are
> empty. Eventually, there will be about 100 staffers.

My bet is the "seats" will remain empty. Why should the Chinese pay in
the US a thousand time the wage of the very same engeneer in China?
After all, don't forget, Big Blue ditched the TP due to it's depts in
that department:

> line. For 10 years, ThinkPads have been made in China, where labor
> costs are low. But the division still spent more than it made.

... more:

> The merger of the two companies doesn't mean ThinkPads will suddenly
> appear at budget retailers. Ward plans to preserve both business
> models, using each to boost the other.

Preserve "both" business models? We were told the same story when IBM
ditched the PS/2, it's printer devision (Lexmark), it's keyboards, it's
Hard Disk department etc... and we know how it ended in each case.

> Lenovo can use IBM's well-known logo for at least five years and could
> leverage that brand recognition t

In the end, that's what the deal was about: IBM got rid of it's depts
and Levono can shovel up with the IBM hallmark. And it won't take 5
years to level down the TP to an ordinary laptop. (-:
 

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Groeten uit Gent,
   Kriis
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