But screen manufacturing costs are astonishing low... even for the high resolution units.
The marketing people have boosted the cost, and now the customer base doesn't want to pay for the good ones. Why does marketing rule over engineering? And why is it now happening to Lenovo. Lenovo doesn't make its own screens. Maybe it is now time. Same issue with keyboards. They cost so very little to manufacture in volume. Only in hard drives and system boards do you see a need for high quality drives. Another area where the marketers in the front office have control... tied into the fact that decisions are made as much as a year ahead of shipment dates. Yet, look how HP has stuck itself in a big hole with bad motherboards and bad screens... where they make their computers in 7 different countries... but the failure rates seem to be the same in all of them... Matched only by the no-name brands, it seems. Look what eMachines did to the laptop market before they stopped making them, and what they are still doing to the desktop market. One would think all these companies would get together on approaches to quality. On laptops, however, Most of the laptops sold in the world, except for Sony and HP, are made in one huge row of buildings that are connected, regardless of the name brand that goes on them. I am told that most of the Lenovo's are now made in that same system... except for a very few models. If you want a real adventure, take your vacation to China and see what profits are doing to us. We market to sales teams, and it is clear that most Lenovos are no better than the others nowadays... when once upon a time, it was easy to sell a high quality higher profit Thinkpad because they were the best RB Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] < [email protected]> wrote: > Blame it on the LCD manufacturers. They've revamped their production lines > for HDTV screens where the volume is. Volume is king in making screens. > So the PC manufacturers have little choice but to follow. Could they pay > lots more and get hi-res screens? I suppose but PCs are still a price > sensitive market. High cost laptops won't sell in sufficient volume to make > it worthwhile to the vendors. > > This is what the vendors tell me. > > _______________________ > Robert Rosen > Senior Technical Advisor, NIAMS > Sent from the portable shiny device > > > Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:46:33 -0500 > From: Rob Bell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen > To: Lee Stewart <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> > Cc: thinkpad <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I've been baffled by the continue downward spiral of resolution for > years now. I enjoyed the pinnacle of things with 1600x1200 Flexview > screens and 1920x1200 wide screen LCDs on laptops like the T61p and Dell > M6300. Since people generally don't like the lower resolutions the only > thing I can think is that it is a cost/profit situation. I'm with you > too, in that I never watch movies on a computer. What the heck value is > there in HD resolutions that are less spacious than the prior > generations of screens? > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > -- ** The future ain't what it used to be. ... .... ..... ...... Yogi Berra _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
