20 years ago, IBM sold the ThinkPad: How Lenovo used the it to become the PC juggernaut

[Redaktion]

December 2004: IBM, one of the founding fathers of the personal computing world, announces that its ThinkPad business is being sold to a then little known entity called Lenovo. 20 years later, the combined company is the largest PC manufacturer by volume - a success story is worth analyzing.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/20-years-ago-IBM-sold-the-ThinkPad-How-Lenovo-used-the-it-to-become-the-PC-juggernaut.930251.0.html

[JThom]

good article reminding us that Lenovo is Chinese-American-Japanese in operation. its a masterclass in how to leverage the purchases of a PC & tablet/smartphone businesses (for known product brands) to maintain & further develop the tech company. it could be stronger but doing far better than how IBM would have run it.

[DARK]

Lenovo , scraps are not even remotely close to the ultimate machines IBM was designing. T60 the legend and W520 here the last of the old guard.