Author Topic: IBM out of PC business. (Read 438 times)

Gh0stFT · « **on:** December 08, 2004, 03:09:05 AM »

Just heard the news,
IBM out of PC business, company sold to a China company (Lenovo) for $1Billion.
Lenovo, a company you might never have heard of before, but which just happens to be the largest PC manufacturer in China.

fare well IBM, soon the new Thinkpads will have red stars on it.
lunch menu changing too from steak to rice only

Gh0stFT

Nilsen · « **Reply #1 on:** December 08, 2004, 03:17:57 AM »

sad news. that means hat the great thinkpads are going chinese!

oh well... at least they will be cheaper

Saintaw · « **Reply #2 on:** December 08, 2004, 03:25:09 AM »

Nihaao Nilsen

Nilsen · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2004, 03:25:44 AM »

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 08, 2004, 08:08:57 AM »

AcId · « **Reply #5 on:** December 08, 2004, 08:45:31 AM »

ooohhhh mickey, im gonna save that and touch it up to fit around here......I'm sure upper mgmt will love me when I pass it around and print it out so I can tape it on my office door. LOL

Ripsnort · « **Reply #6 on:** December 08, 2004, 08:50:08 AM »

We still have an IBM rep that works on our Thinkpads. Our company have switched to Dell. All the new PC's are Dell.

Nilsen · « **Reply #7 on:** December 08, 2004, 09:21:56 AM »

Dell?? omg... you have my condolences Ripsnort

AKIron · « **Reply #8 on:** December 08, 2004, 10:13:02 AM »

I'll take a Dell over an IBM any day.

SirLoin · « **Reply #9 on:** December 08, 2004, 10:33:41 AM »

Everything is going to China(including your job)..in case you didn't notice.

beet1e · « **Reply #10 on:** December 08, 2004, 11:06:19 AM »

Can't say that I'm feeling sympathy for IBM - not that I wish them ill of course. But they had their day in the 1970s/1980s, and I remember how they extracted millions of £ from their corporate clients for those big mainframe upgrades. More than 10 years ago, an IBM upgrade at my local water utility company cost £7m. And in 1987 (IBM's glory year, just before PCs took hold) an IBM PS2 would cost £7000 - and that price didn't even include the keyboard!!! - don't know about the mouse.

It was inevitable that things would have to change for Big Blue, once technology took off. No-one was going to be paying multi-million amounts for upgrades when they can run their systems on hardware which cost a few hundred thousand.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #11 on:** December 08, 2004, 11:21:14 AM »

Well damn, my nipple fell off this morning on my thinkpad and I cannot find it! So I called the hardware hotline to get it fixed.
They're sending out an IBM rep. Conversation went like this with the female hotline support person:

Me: Hi, I have an IBM thinkpad and my nipple fell off.

Her: Your 'what" fell off?

Me: My nipple, you know the little red thing that you use as a mouse when you don't have a mouse available.

Her: So its a mouse nipple?

Me: Well, seems rather large for a mouse nipple, but yes, I would say that is true.

Her: {Laughing} Oooookay! (Now she's typing) Customers nipple fell off. {Laughing again} Is that the correct term for this problem, nipple?

Me: So I've been told!

Her: Okay, have a nice day! Hope your nipple feels better!

Me: Thank you!

Nilsen · « **Reply #12 on:** December 08, 2004, 01:09:50 PM »

IBM service and support is the best! (atleast here)

Dell sucks on both customer care, technology and quality of hardware. Only + is their ok prices.

jEEZY · « **Reply #13 on:** December 08, 2004, 01:52:38 PM »

Thinkpads have been made in China for awhile now--mine was shipped from Hong Kong--only thing that will change is that another company puts their finger in the profit pie (which for IBM PCs is not very big, notwithstanding the price).

BTW I generally hate laptops, but love my IBM t-42

Lizking · « **Reply #14 on:** December 08, 2004, 02:06:32 PM »

Nilsen, here in the states, it is exactly opposite of your experience. They are bulletproof systems with great service, but the price is very high.