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Replacing a Thinkpad?

Posted by kdawson on from the swimming-against-the-race-to-the-bottom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As a very happy Thinkpad T20 user (still working after 7 years), I always planned on replacing it with another Thinkpad T-series. However, Thinkpads are now produced by Lenovo, a Chinese company, and I can't quite bear to buy Chinese while the Burmese military are shooting at monks with the Chinese Government as their biggest backer. Maybe this is silly, as whatever I buy is likely to be made (at least in part) in China... but still, what are my options for something as well built as the Thinkpad T-series?"

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  1. Don't buy from any american company by protomala · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You know, they are shooting at the musulman priests in Badga desert.

    Unfortunaly this will left you with almost no option, because AMD and Intel are american companies, so sorry, you better go to a cave and forget about human kind. :)

  2. Re:Ummmm by foxtrot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So I started wondering what I could get as far as a toy without Made in China on it.
    in Short, you can't easily.A specialty store sometimes you can find things made in maybe Europe somewhere, but US made things are hard to find and anything non-chinese is pretty hard as well. Forget about shopping at Wal-Mart. That's the retail arm of China now.

    Bah. You can get great toys not made in China in every Wal-Mart in the US.

    They're called "Lego". I'm sure you've never heard of 'em, but since every last brick is made in Denmark or the Czech Republic, with packaging made in one of those places or Enfield, CT, there's nothing Chinese about 'em.

    Of course, you can also get 'em in specialty stores, but why pay the extra markup?

    -F