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Old 17-04-2008, 04:21 PM

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IBM are not IBM compatible

I know some people may not find interesting but well i thought was a little bending.

In a wired turn of events IBM, the people who in the 80's were one of the major competitor's to Apple in the personal computer market, and also the ones who are responsible for the "IBM Clone/IBM Compatible" which is ancestor every non peecee we know today, have started an internal program for converting their uses to Macs. The reports says the program has been meet with a lot of cheer. The program has seen all the member replace their, IBM/Lenovo thinkpads with mac book pros.

So I guess its far to ask if IBM are IBM compatible anymore?



IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

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Old 17-04-2008, 04:41 PM

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I'm not sure about desktops, but I know IBM are out of the Laptop game, having sold their Thinkpad line to Lenovo

Maybe they don't trust the chinese

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Old 17-04-2008, 04:44 PM

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I'm not sure about desktops, but I know IBM are out of the Laptop game, having sold their Thinkpad line to Lenovo

Maybe they don't trust the chinese

Yeah they sold laptops in 2005, but even last year the Lenovo notebooks where still been badged with IBM on they, and have not made desktops for years. They still make servers and mainframes.

Just thought it was an interesting turn

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This thread should be merged with this thread

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