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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost by beenBoutIT on Friday April 13, 2018 @04:51PM (#16833799)
If you look at The current situation with ThinkPads it's obvious why no OEM would want to end up where Lenovo is now. ThinkPads built a decade ago are so durable and well-built with readily available replacement parts that they will most likely never go away entirely. CPUs haven't improved enough to make them a compelling argument for upgrading, and the end result is that modern day Lenovo is stuck competing with its own product.
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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost by nothrabannosir on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:14PM (#16833957)
Those Thinkpads were built by IBM. Lenovo took a stallion of a brand and drove it face down into the ground.

I tried to stay with Lenovo, but after the endless waves of shitware, spyware and low quality hardware (!) I had to give up. Thinkpad’s great name is thanks to IBM, and perhaps, maybe, a bit of early Lenovo. Maybe.

If Lenovo is competing with anything, it’s with IBM.

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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost by blattimwind on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:52PM (#16834202)
> Those Thinkpads were built by IBM. Lenovo took a stallion of a brand and drove it face down into the ground.

I don't think this is particularly true, 2009-2012 era hardware designed/built by Lenovo/Quanta is also around in plentiful numbers.

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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost by StudentStuff on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:27PM (#16834432)
The Thinkpad T440 and newer are easier to work on than the T400 thru T430. You can do a heck of a lot more while removing fewer screws. than in older Thinkpads.
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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost by ahartmetz on Saturday April 14, 2018 @06:05AM (#16836695)
The expensive / business models (T, X) are still proper Thinkpads and extremely durable. Only the cheaper models suck in various ways.
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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost by znpy on Saturday April 14, 2018 @06:05AM (#16836696)
As a consumer, I gladly pay a premium (in respect to regular laptop prices) and buy ThinkPads because of their reliability and ease of upgrade/repair.

This way I can upgrade to a new model when I feel it's time to.

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