The 16, 000 Lenovo computers will basically be quarantined from other government computers, and won't be used for any classified work.
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Lenovo focused on computers for corporate clients before expanding into the consumer market.
Sure, Lenovo's computers are made in China.
ENGADGET: State Department bans Lenovo PCs from classified work
But the quiet manufacturer behind a growing number of solar, smart grid and solar inverter companies is Flextronics, the same company that makes Blackberrys, the Redbox DVD rental kiosks and desktop computers for Lenovo, to name just a few of its customers.
Lenovo has mastered the art of selling cheap computers to people with not many yuan to spare.
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.
The partnership will also open up markets outside of Asia for Lenovo and will help it expand into products beyond personal computers in Asia.
Criminal hackers are spending more time investigating security flaws in Mac computers, Reuters reports, as Apple gains further market share in desktop computers from PC makers like Dell, HP and Lenovo.
But that progress has been slow, and Dell, which ranks behind HP and Lenovo in PC sales, still gets almost half of its revenue from its desktop and notebook computers.
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Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is dedicated to building exceptionally engineered personal computers.
His computers, printers, and other accessories were made by a mash-up of manufacturers from Dell and Lenovo to Brother and HP.
Lenovo had made a strategic decision to forgo some pricey marketing opportunities in the U.S., like selling computers on a large scale in Best Buy stores.
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