Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Originally posted by: cw42
Originally posted by: jnmunsey
Now that this line of laptops is directly owned by a Chinese company, I will avoid them at all costs. Offshoring manufacturing to China has resulted in a drop in quality on a grand scale. Selling an entire division to China makes it even worse.
Even if the Chinese made decent products there are numerous other reasons to steer clear. If you can't think of any or don't care then, well, my condolences.
Check your clothes, shoes, and practically every piece of electronics you own. I'm betting way more than half of it has something in it that's "Made in China". Get real budday.
Actually my shirt was made in Mexico, and my pants in Columbia. The only two pieces of clothes I have that I know were made in China are my hoody, and my backpack, both of which are falling apart and have been replaced once before.
Enjoy high quality Thinkpads while you can...
I think you're a protectionist lunatic who doesn't even realize that now that Lenovo owns the Thinkpad brand Thinkpad prices have actually gone down while quality hasn't.
Lenovo's cheaper line of less quality built notebooks is sold under their other line, the entire Thinkpad line is still held up to a much higher standard. Lenovo didn't spend a bazillion dollars acquiring the Thinkpad brand just to piss it away, if they wanted to build crappy notebooks they'd have just build crappy notebooks and gained market share on price alone (like pretty much every other notebook maker ever).
Seriously, IBM Thinkpads were great but priced out of most people's reach, and I don't think there's anything wrong with having the same quality now be accessible to more people because everything is being done by Lenovo now.
Yes there's plenty of crappy made in china stuff, but there's also plenty of multi-billion dollar Chinese mega-corporations who are all about gaining market share by making competitive products and not just the cheapest possible stuff.
If you think everything Chinese has to suck then I think you better turn your computer off because I'll bet that a good percentage of all those little components soldered onto all those PCBs are actually from China.