Lenovo 3000 Series Dead

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Stargate199 · #1 Post by **Stargate199** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:18 pm

Found this post on Engadget and doubled checked the Lenovo site, the 3000 series is dead. Now its just the Ideapad/centre and Thinkpad/centre lines.

#2 Post by **gator** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:19 pm

The King is dead! Long live the King!

Stargate199 · #3 Post by **Stargate199** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:22 pm

All remaining 3000 notebooks and desktops are on the outlet store. If you need a new system, might want to give it a look.

#4 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:01 pm

Why do you think the series died? because nobody wanted that crap!
Even at a discount I wouldn't want it.
Heck, if they gave one to me, I would pass it on to some charity!

qviri · #5 Post by **qviri** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:58 pm

My parents had a 3000 at one point. It's no Thinkpad, but it's not a total piece of crap. I'd take one far before a consumer Toshiba or Acer.

#6 Post by **JaneL** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:05 pm

RealBlackStuff wrote:Even at a discount I wouldn't want it.
Heck, if they gave one to me, I would pass it on to some charity!

I have an N100. It's not a ThinkPad, but it's fine for what it is.

Website · #7 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:05 pm

qviri wrote:My parents had a 3000 at one point. It's no Thinkpad, but it's not a total piece of crap. I'd take one far before a consumer Toshiba or Acer.

Ditto! Some people are of the mindset that if it doesn't have the word "Thinkpad" on it, it must be useless....and that just isn't the case. There are some nice Dells and HPs, even though I wouldn't necessarily shell out money for one, unless it was a really good deal....

j-dawg · #8 Post by **j-dawg** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:53 am

My sister's got a 3000 N100. It's actually pretty nice. I dunno why people are hatin'.

phr · #9 Post by **phr** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:02 am

My officemate has a V100 and it's nice and I almost bought one. The later V200 is very similar.

beeblebrox · #10 Post by **beeblebrox** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:58 am

The 3000 series was quite a solid machine. However it came out from the myriad of different Lenovo offerings.

If you check the Chinese Lenovo pages, you'll see that there are many more, actually VERY interesting, notebooks on offer.

My favorite was the F20 or F40 in Coca-Cola red. They were never sold outside China.

Unfortunately, a Lenovo 3000 Series XYZ in generic silver is not really a very catchy brand name or reputation. Very similar to the Sony branding crap like Vaio-CR323XYZ etc. Generic silver/black can be found in cheap discount outlets and damages the Thinkpad reputation.

I can imagine that Lenovo folks were hard at work to develop a catchy brand image and a good long lasting industrial design that can carry the brand for at least 10 years, just like the Thinkpad.

If someone from Lenovo reads these lines, please offer us a short insight on branding in your Lenovo Blogs.

FRiC · #11 Post by **FRiC** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:44 am

My Lenovo dealer was selling the 3000 N200 with T7100 CPU really cheap and only to corporate buyers, so we got a bunch of them. They are actually very solid machines with very nice keyboards. The fingerprint scanner even works better than the one in my Thinkpad.

l2karl · #12 Post by **l2karl** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:22 pm

beeblebrox wrote:The 3000 series was quite a solid machine. However it came out from the myriad of different Lenovo offerings.

What do you think about the 12.1 Lenovo 3000 V100 and similar line?

Tks,

Karl

beeblebrox · #13 Post by **beeblebrox** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:01 pm

l2karl wrote:
beeblebrox wrote:The 3000 series was quite a solid machine. However it came out from the myriad of different Lenovo offerings.
What do you think about the 12.1 Lenovo 3000 V100 and similar line?

Tks,

Karl

That 12,1" model was actually the very first true Lenovo I have ever seen. I wanted to check out the R6x models in an office store and they had the Lenovo V100 there. I really liked the machine! Very solid, perfect size, maybe a bit thick. (Because they had an ultra slim Toshiba next to it... Toshiba R500 ?)
But I really liked it. Prices should be rock bottom low now, I guess...

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