Hi,
First, I may be biased, as I work for IBM (in Storage, not anything x86/x64)
On 7/3/14, 9:54 AM, DSinc wrote:
Seeking opinions about Lenovo. I know that they now own the old IBM PC
division. Fine.
So, OB is doing 'New Desktop' research. He went to Dell and found the
Inspiron 8700. Nice box.
So, OB went to Big Buy and met a Lenovo desktop, I think it is a K450E
series. I have not peeked/poked yet.
I will.
My personal opinion is Lenovo's business line, the Think workstations
and ThinkPad Laptops (not the edge, not the idea pad) are great.
I don't care for *anyones* consumer line. Basically, if it's sold at
BestBuy, it's probably built to be disposable.
That being said, if you want to poke around the IBM Certified Used, or
the Lenovo Employee Purchase Program for IBM Employee's it reaches out
to family and friends, send me a direct email, and I will give you the
info on both of them (can't post that to a public mailing list).
The conversion of IBM to Lenovo is recent.
Only if you consider almost 10 years as recent, the PC Division was sold
in 2005, the x64 server line is pending sale this year. That being
said, I have worked ThinkPad laptops for the better part of 15 years,
both personally and professionally, and have found them to be great. I
love my work W520, (3 SSDs and 16GB upgradeable to 32GB of memory in a
laptop :)).
-Harry
Wondering what the Collective feels about Lenovo in general.
If you choose to be specific, please share.
Thanks,
Duncan
