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Chinese PC Maker Looks to Buy IBM's PC Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the exit-market-right dept.

idril writes "According to The New York Times (free registration required), China's largest PC maker is reportedly in talks to buy IBM's PC business. Lenovo, formerly known as Legend, is the leading PC maker in Asia outside Japan. Lenovo sells primarily low cost PCs; acquiring IBM's business would help them raise their brand recognition and status among more affluent, brand-conscious consumers."

6 of 238 comments (clear)

  1. End of an era by IO+ERROR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IBM getting out of the PC business is a sad day for all of us. They commoditized the PC and made it possible for all of us to have cheap gaming and porn platforms right in our living rooms and bedrooms. Not to mention they built some pretty good computers. I still love my ThinkPad despite its occasional ACPI-related problems. I don't think "Lenovo" is going to be quite the same...

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  2. Re:I hope not by penguinbrat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would be sad to see in a few years that a 5 year old ThinkPad would be worth more than a brand new one...

  3. Re:Trouble with a Capital "T" by canuck57 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These are the kind of jobs and businesses that need to stay in America.

    See:

    http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/010902/09ib m.html in America.

    The fact of the mater is any company can't run a business in the red indefinitly. And the date of this article suggests IBM has been bleading profits into the PC operations for some time.

    And the web never forgets...

  4. You say Aptiva, I say Ambra by amichalo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    According to this website, in 1993 IBM created a PC dividion to compete agianst mailorder companies (Gateway, Dell, et al) and called that Dividion "Ambra".

    The article states the Ambra division was miss managed and had poor customer service, leading to it's closure just one year later in 1994. The division would later be resurected as the IBM "Aptiva" line of personal computers many more of us know today.

    As a college student I was very pleased with the support I received for my Ambra (386 I believe). The monitor went bad and IBM had a new one waiting for me at my dorm within 24 hours of the service call. I was sad to see Ambra go.

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  5. Will we see AMD-based IBM PCs this way? by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe we'll see Athlon 64 PCs from "IBM" this way. Lenovo is a big AMD customer. They aren't insecurely limiting their AMD64 usage because of a fear they'll outshine Power architecture machines like IBM is. C'mon IBM, listen to your software engineers and sell/promote the good stuff.

  6. Re:IBM's Rep at stake by 10am-bedtime · · Score: 3, Interesting

    china doesn't need to buy U.S. companies when it can buy the U.S. government (nakedly, in the form of debt, and more covertly, in the form of poltical contributions).

    of course, you could say that (top) U.S. companies and the U.S. government are almost indistinguishable by now, and we'd both be right...