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Death of the ThinkPad?
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:53 am
by atlacatl
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/03/le ... y510-u110/
Not as nice at the ThinkPad line, but these new Lenovo models are looking good.
Thoughts/Comments?
Note from Moderator: Locking duplicate thread.
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:45 am
by dr_st
My thoughts are that I'm sick of people throwing loud, stupid and unrelated headlines whenever they want to attract attention to their thread.
Maybe I should start a thread about a new brand of soft drink and call it "The End of Pepsi?"
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:18 am
by andyP
It would appear the OP is confusing business notebooks, (ThinkPads), and "multi-media" notebooks, (3000 series). The 3000 series Y
notebooks are already offered in the US and some other countries. They are also sold through retail chains differently to ThinkPads.
I do not believe in any way that these things are intended to replace ThinkPads.
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:42 am
by RealBlackStuff
This thread is already 'old hat' on TPF.
See 'Ideapads??? The deterioration of Thinkpad lines?'
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=54904
in the General TP Forum
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:24 am
by pianowizard
Of course Lenovo won't terminate the Thinkpad line. They are just chaning the current non-business line's name from "3000" (boring) to "IdeaPad" (catchier). Also notice that this IdeaPad line doesn't offer 14" and 12" models. I suspect Lenovo wants to reserve these sizes for the Thinkpads to minimize overlaps between the two lines.
While the answer to the OP's question "death of the Thinkpad?" is "no", the IdeaPads will compete with the Thinkpads to some degree, potentially causing Thinkpad sales to decline. In particular, the U110 has much nicer specs than the current X series.
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:37 am
by Puppy
pianowizard wrote:In particular, the U110 has much nicer specs than the current X series.
But screwed keyboard layout (comparing to X series).
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:31 pm
by Kyocera
If ideapads are good they'll hold their own, but large business using thinkpads are going to be changing anytime soon. Seems like Lenovo is trying to fill a niche, just like they should to stay competitive. They've been pushing their own machines like the v and n series which can't possibly replace thinkpads in the business world (well they could but it would be a poor choice for a business because the build is nowhere near as robust as a thinkpad).
This subject line is somewhat inflammatory, but we're all adults here.
