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Comments on: Lenovo stock falls as IBM retreats

They'll pull through 

Posted Tuesday 22nd July 2008 15:00 GMT

Thinkpads are still the definitive business laptop. As long as they keep focused on maintaining quality and reliability there will always be a market for them.

re: They'll pull through 

Posted Tuesday 22nd July 2008 16:25 GMT

Indeed, investors are just a little nervous right now, so they say "better safe than sorry" when they see news that IBM is offloading Lenovo shares. In time, investors are likely to buy Lenovo shares again and the share price should then rebounce.

They'll pull through 

Posted Tuesday 22nd July 2008 16:30 GMT

Unhappy

There are still staff to lay off :-/

Mine's the one with the expired Lenovo security badge in the pocket

@they'll pull through 

Posted Tuesday 22nd July 2008 16:30 GMT

Doesn't mean they'll make money doing it. Many are the firms who went bust selling at a loss.

T'was ever thus 

Posted Tuesday 22nd July 2008 16:40 GMT

Linux

Interesting commentary in the facts that Lenovo, in spite of being saddled with IBM's money-losing operation, though, granted, with the respected Thinkpad brand, has doubled its stock price, allowing IBM to benefit yet again from its own ineptitude.

So why couldn't IBM do what Lenovo has done with the same product?

Tux just 'cuz.

Where can I find a laptop 

Posted Tuesday 22nd July 2008 19:21 GMT

that wasn't made in China?

Non China made laptop 

Posted Wednesday 23rd July 2008 04:03 GMT

Gates Horns

I don't think there are any,but perhaps Korea , Formosa (can't spell the other name), or Vietnam may make some . Certainly none in USA.

Tank, Sell, Bottom out, Buy, Restore. 

Posted Wednesday 23rd July 2008 05:52 GMT

Gates Horns

So Thinkpad is a pretty solid name. I say ThinkPad, you think IBM... IBM sells the Thinkpad line to Lenovo for some exorborant price. Lenovo tanks, and IBM dumps the shares they have as soon as they can, and whatever loss they have to absorb. Then when Lenovo hits Rock Bottom, and no one wants the name, IBM steps back in, and buys out the company, for peanuts on the dollar, taking back the ThinkPad name, that was always associated with IBM anyhow. They restore the ThinkPad name, and make a killing. Another few billion pesos in Big Blue's coffers.

Gates of Hell, cause he's not the only business cut-throat.

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