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Re: Modern Market, Lenovo vs IBM design

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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > What do people think of the modern lines of ThinkPads that Lenovo are 
> > offering in the current day? Honestly, I think people can be a bit too 
> > quick to judge them - and pass them off as a lot of what modern tech 
> > companies are offering, but with the badge of the original IBM brand 
> > without the spirit of their long-term durable design.
> 
> I took it that the ThinkPad brand had lost any meaning when I saw it
> on cheap under-powered notebook things (ThinkPad Edge). I haven't
> been following the whole modern Thinkpad range, but from that
> evidence I decided it was just a brand Lenovo stick on things when
> the marketing department think it might help - no longer any promise
> to follow the design aims of IBM era ThinkPads. So the
> ThinkPad/Lenovo badge seems interchangable to me now.
> 
> But I'm not in the market for new laptops anyway.
> 
I'm just about to move from a T470 to a T16 Gen 2 as my default
laptop, the T470 has served me well (though it's a Lenovo one of
course) but it's beginning to feel its age now and my eyes want a
bigger screen.

The T16 is refurbished from eBay and will arrive tomorrow. The
documentation seems as good as that for the T470 with proper hardware
dismantling procedures etc.

I'll report further if anyone is interested.

-- 
Chris Green
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Modern Market, Lenovo vs IBM design Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-30 22:55 +0100
  Re: Modern Market, Lenovo vs IBM design not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-07-01 09:06 +1000
    Re: Modern Market, Lenovo vs IBM design Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2026-07-01 11:02 +0100
      Re: Modern Market, Lenovo vs IBM design Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-01 18:34 +0100
    Re: Modern Market, Lenovo vs IBM design Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-01 18:31 +0100
  Re: Modern Market, Lenovo vs IBM design Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net> - 2026-07-06 12:34 -0400
    Re: Modern Market, Lenovo vs IBM design Caffeine Canidae <samuel.common@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-07 13:38 +0100

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