ThinkPad Still Going Strong
I am a huge fan of the IBM ThinkPad laptops. I keep a little X40 connected to me most hours of the day. So I was more than a little concerned when the news came out regarding IBM selling its PC business to a Chinese company. I assumed, much like the newspaper headlines, that this was the end.
Well, that’s been a few months ago. Since then we’ve had to send some IBM computers in for standard warranty work and there seems to be no change in the type or quality of service. This morning I jumped on the IBM website to look at purchasing some of their cool new fingerprint authentication hardware for my notebook, and ran across this article putting most of my fears to rest. So now I’m really confused about what the change does mean.
Oh, well. While I was there I also ran across a pretty cool series called “Legends of Thinkpad” where you can watch movies about a ThinkPad being burned, run over by a truck, and left under a tree for a year. Pretty cool.