Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Jan 2008 23:05 UTC
Lenovo is undertaking an Olympic-size effort to establish itself as a consumer PC brand. The Chinese PC maker has found great success with the iconic ThinkPad brand of commercial laptops, a business it purchased from IBM. And now it's taking the world stage with a new line of consumer-focused notebooks called IdeaPad. There will also be a desktop line called IdeaCentre.
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If Lenovo would build such a machine, let's say, with no "idiot keys", with a trackpoint with three mouse buttons, that is ready to run, hmmm... FreeBSD... then I would be happy to order one of these.
I think they call that machine the "Thinkpad" ;D and it seems to work great with any Linux I've thrown at it and the FreeBSD that some regulars on other sites select Thinkpads for specifically.
I do hope they keep up the high standards though. IBM has always been known for good keyboards and the Think* machines as good business boxes. It would be sad to see the brand used up with budget components then discarded once all it's value had been erroded.
non-Windows preinstalls would be nice too. I hear they do it for business but offering a choice of OS for the consumer market would be great to see also.
Actually, this T60 is the first notebook that has convinced me there is something worth looking at outside of the toughbook series for my personal needs. It's not ruggedised but the chassis doesn't feel cheap, the insides are not budget hardware and it's closer to my affordable price range these days.