thinkpad Concepts

Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM

by Paul Carroll · 19 Sep 1994

was the first product in IBM ’s history that would be known only by its name, the ThinkPad, and wouldn’t carry a product num ber. In fact, the press release did list the ThinkPad as the 2521. W hen Vieth built to what was meant to be a rousing conclusion, she

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to Intel’s dominance of the processor market. In personal computers, IBM finallv regained some credibility in laptops and notebook computers in 1993 with its ThinkPad line. In addition, IBM seemed to have finally cut costs enough to more or less match competitors and had figured out the technologv-growth pattern

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stockholders’ losses, 365-66 stock picks bv, 223-25, 229-30 structure and scope of corporation, 20-21 summary of rise and fall, 2 -7 ThinkPad computer, 323-24 3090 mainframes, 54-55 360 mainframe, 52—53, 108 TopView software, 86, 88, 104, 105, 111 True Blue underground newsletter, 362-63

The Zenith Angle

by Bruce Sterling · 27 Apr 2004 · 342pp · 95,013 words

of money. The TV muttered through a headache commercial, obscuring baby Ted’s eager slurps from Dottie’s rubber spoon. Van tapped at his trusty ThinkPad and checked the titles of the 117 pieces of e-mail piled up for him behind Mondiale’s corporate firewall. With an effort, Van decided

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equivalent of an adult landing a job. Van ran his fingers through his thick sandy beard, still wet from the morning shower. He set his ThinkPad firmly aside to confront an unsteady heap of magazines. Junk-mail catalog people had gotten wind of Van’s huge paycheck. For them, a computer

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truck bomb,” Van explained. “They tried to blow that place up once.” Dottie winced. It was not her kind of topic. Van fetched up his ThinkPad from the floor. He figured he had better surf some Web news. These local TV guys had a lousy news budget. Covertly, Van examined his

CTOs at Work

by Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson · 13 Jan 2012 · 458pp · 135,206 words

right answer was, but I knew it was less than 14. When I left, it would all run on a ThinkPad. It was a big ThinkPad, but it would all run on a ThinkPad. And that was all just advice and consent, and the fact that when I gave advice and consent, my

The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World

by Shaun Rein · 27 Mar 2012 · 251pp · 63,630 words

to China. China is constantly seeking to improve existing operations in the home market. Take, for instance, when Chinese computer maker Lenovo acquired IBM’s ThinkPad laptop line. There were few layoffs, and Lenovo actually poached senior executives from Dell to run their operations. They did not install senior Chinese officials

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management of acquired companies or block the advancement of executives who are not native Chinese. For instance, when Chinese computer maker Lenovo acquired the IBM ThinkPad line, it installed an American chief executive officer. The chairman of Bright Food, which has bought stakes in companies such as Australia’s Manassen, announced

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tariffs on Chinese imports by U.S. on luxury goods reduction of for free trade technology companies Tele2 Telenor Tencent Terex test scores, emphasis on ThinkPad 3Leaf Systems Three Tenors concert Tianamen Square protests Tianjin, China TIME magazine Times Square Titanic (film) tourists, Chinese catering and preparing for rates of travel

Stealth of Nations

by Robert Neuwirth · 18 Oct 2011 · 340pp · 91,387 words

Hong Kong–to–China smuggling involves laptop computers. Students and professionals who want good machines report that some major-brand laptops—particularly HP, Sony, and ThinkPad—sell lower-quality machines in China than are available in Hong Kong and the West. And these machines are also more expensive in the People

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’s Republic. For instance, ThinkPad computers, which were once part of the IBM empire and are now manufactured by the Chinese firm Lenovo, are generally one-third cheaper in the

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MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

by Tony Robbins · 18 Nov 2014 · 825pp · 228,141 words

to build other things—including more of themselves. “This software makes its own hardware. No matter how I program a ThinkPad, I will only have one ThinkPad tomorrow morning, not a thousand ThinkPads. But if I program a bacteria, I will have a billion bacteria tomorrow,” Juan said. It sounds insane, like something

China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies Are Changing the Rules of Business

by Edward Tse · 13 Jul 2015 · 233pp · 64,702 words

deal quadrupled Lenovo’s revenue to $12 billion and made it a global player. The company took ownership of IBM’s “Think” family, including its ThinkPad notebook brand, and bought out IBM’s interest in its joint venture with domestic rival Great Wall Technology, then China’s second-largest PC maker

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remains by far its principal market—responsible for nearly 40 percent of its revenues. In the United States, for example, despite its ownership of the ThinkPad brand, its share of the PC market is only 10 percent; HP and Dell both have around 25 percent. There is no guarantee that Lenovo

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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

by Elizabeth Royte · 1 Jan 2005 · 308pp · 98,729 words

in adults. Tapping away at my keyboard was probably doing me little harm, I figured, but it wouldn’t take much for my sleek little ThinkPad to morph into a corrosive contaminant. Crushed in a landfill, it would leach metals into soil and water (remember, all landfills eventually leak); in an

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printer cartridge boxes.) When I asked staffers at one of the largest computer merchants in New York City about taking back my gently used IBM ThinkPad, they said they didn’t do it, didn’t know anything about it, and had never before been asked about it. For its part, Massachusetts

Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything

by Stephen Baker · 17 Feb 2011 · 238pp · 77,730 words

of calculations and following instructions from lots of software programs that already existed. In its guts, Blue J would not be so different from the ThinkPad Ferrucci lugged from one meeting to the next. Its magic would have to come from its massive scale, inspired design, and carefully tuned algorithms. In

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names this division dreamed up became iconic. “PC” quickly became a broad term for personal computers (at least those that weren’t made by Apple). ThinkPad was the marquee brand for top-of-the-line business laptops. And for a few decades before the PC, the Selectric, the electric typewriter with

The Future Won't Be Long

by Jarett Kobek · 15 Aug 2017 · 510pp · 138,000 words

know them. OCTOBER 1996 Baby Goes on a Book Tour Before I embarked upon my tour of America, I bought a new computer, an IBM ThinkPad 560 with an 800-megabyte hard drive and 100mhz Pentium processor. The total cost, tax included, was a steal at $2,300. I’d gotten

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a deal through a friend of Parker’s. Compared with models of similar power, the cost was exorbitant, but I’d been assured that the ThinkPad offered a durability missing from other models. —You can beat the living shit out of the thing, said Parker. Everything else is a toy. Besides