[plug] Which brand of laptop?

[Kev]

Fred Janon wrote:
> The IBM laptops were designed by IBM and manufactured (very well in my 
> opinion) by Lenovo for years. Only a couple of years ago IBM decided 
> to sell their consumer division and Lenovo bought the business part. 
> The new laptops are designed by Lenovo with the previous experience 
> from IBM, so I think they are probably very close to what they were 
> with IBM but cheaper and sold through different channels (OfficeWorks 
> for example).
>

Speaking to an IBM insider who deals with that stuff, he reckons that 
the Lenovo branded stuff is, if anything different, better than the Big 
Bkue stuff.

Kev

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