Actually, this was a rather smart move on the part of Lenovo. They were already a huge company in China, and wanted to expand outside thier own country. The sale of IBM's thinkpad line was not just the name, but everything, including all resources in IBM's PC division. IBM sold it, primarily b/c the desktop business isn't in thier overall strategy; they intend to move everything off the desktop and into the datacenter. Personally, I'd rather see a company like Lenovo buy it, than another big company like Dell, Gateway, or (as much as I like them) HP. In a world where every company in every industry is moving towards being owned by one big company, it's good to see some more competition breaking out. Just my thoughts.

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ACCHHHH!! Why do you like HP? Their hardware quality is hit or miss!!
HP Printers=good
HP Computers=hit or miss

What I've seen go dead:
Mainboards
Power Supplies
CD-ROM drives

Not to mention the software and promotions they often put on--there is a word for that...
CRAPUTER

btw yes, I'm sure they're probably better than IBM at desktops. Who isn't? IBM is better at other things. IBM made the cell processor for PS3 and possibly for future computers. The cell processor has broadband networking features on the processor (ergo, it r0x0rs).

To be fair,
hp laptops=good
...They're the only ones I haven't seen go bad early (I've seen a FEW major brands go bad early, but mostly from people hitting them too hard). I've seen a Compaq go bad early, but I think that it was made before HP bought Compaq (the laptop was about 4 years old, built in about 1998, and died more than a year before my [url=[link] laptop (which was working perfectly when I sold it about a year ago, and the customer has had no complaints even though I left my phone number and business card and everything).

oh, btw, dA doesn't support the [tags], if you want to link or anything, use real html tags.
check out the faq:
FAQ #104: What HTML formatting can we use on deviantART? And what is the format for these codes?

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oh ya
here is the laptop site.