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Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad... by tosstossy on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:07PM (#15411759)
Do you think the panel supplier wouldn't be happy to sell more of a panel Apple made very cheap for them to manufacture at scale?
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Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad... by solatic on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:56PM (#15412116)
You can bet that Apple makes those suppliers sign exclusivity contracts, less to keep the panels out of the hands of competitors like Lenovo and more to keep the panels out of the hands of counterfeiters/knockoff-artists.
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Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad... by 4ad on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:54PM (#15412859)
And yet you can buy that exact LCD on ebay.
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Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad... by icebraining on Friday October 06, 2017 @06:25AM (#15415669)
Can you buy 5000 of them on eBay?
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Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad... by walterbell on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:00PM (#15420448)
For the 9.7” and 12.9 screens, you can buy 5000 4:3 LCD panels per week:

https://m.alibaba.com/product/60629586392/wholesale-9-7-Inch...

https://m.alibaba.com/product/60590281374/Original-Multi-Tou...

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