A friend of mine, and perhaps the greatest ThinkPad enthusiast that you will meet, had the good fortune of meeting David Hill, the Vice President of Lenovo corporate identity & design for Lenovo. For five to six hours at CES, Jin Li spoke to David to tell him why there is a love of ThinkPads, and why some ThinkPadders collect them.
Jin Li created a basic outline on what some of the discussion were, and how die hard ThinkPadders feel about ThinkPads ( he also included comparison to other brands). Below you will find the presentation he created.
Jin Li created a basic outline on what some of the discussion were, and how die hard ThinkPadders feel about ThinkPads ( he also included comparison to other brands). Below you will find the presentation he created.
The only part of Jin Li's presentation that I disagree with is equating the prestige of owning a ThinkPad in 1994 to owning a Mac in 2015: in 1994, the IBM 755CD cost over $6000, or about $9000 in today's money. A $2500 MacBook Pro seems like quite the bargain in comparison! I will agree, however, that a ThinkPad is not as great a status symbol as it once was (but neither is a Mac)...both do say something about the owner, though...A black box represents me better :)
The IBM Thinkpad 755CD was a status symbol when it was released in 1994. Imagine owning the first laptop with a built-in CD-ROM!
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