When Lenovo throws a party for the ThinkPad, does IBM get invited?
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Twice I've tried to convert to Windows, lured, as I recall, by a sleek IBM Thinkpad.
Good examples are the Toshiba Portege 4000 and the IBM ThinkPad T23 and the new R30.
The two firms said that, once finished, the power pack would work with future and existing IBM Thinkpad notebooks without them needing to be modified.
They include the Toshiba Tecras and the IBM ThinkPad A series.
In fact, at the time of the IBM ThinkPad acquisition, the China business was 37% of total Lenovo revenues, so the China sales out of the global revenues by Q4 fiscal 2009 had actually increased nearly 10%.
In May, IBM and the CPSC jointly announced a recall of about 220, 000 AC adapters used with the company's ThinkPad notebooks and other mobile devices (see "IBM recalls 220, 000 ThinkPad adapters, " link below).
Also thanks to CemexNet, Zambrano can use a laptop or the IBM 770 ThinkPad computer in his office in the ten-story concrete-and-glass Cemex headquarters in downtown Monterrey to check on the daily production, kiln conditions, crushing, bagging and shipping output at any Cemex operation around the world.
Lenovo buying IBM's Thinkpad line of computers is one such example, Geely Holding Group's recent acquisition of Swedish car maker Volvo is another.
In addition, IBM will upgrade its ThinkPad 600x models with the new processors and introduce a new model with changes to digital video disc and video.
Or will they sell the business off, as IBM did when it sold the ThinkPad business to Lenovo?
Some analysts have speculated that the hardware business could be sold off to an Asian handset buyer in a deal analogous to IBM's sale of the ThinkPad unit to Lenovo.
For starters, supply every undergraduate with their own IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) ThinkPad and color printer upon enrollment.
So, I yanked my IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) Thinkpad out of its docking station in my office, stuffed it into my old leather briefcase, gathered up my family (actually my wife did that part) and raced for the airport.
The new IBM Network Station Series 2200 and 2800 with Linux complement the company's existing client systems including the ThinkPad series, PC 300, IntelliStation, and Netfinity servers.
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