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Why We Love ThinkPads

1/13/2015

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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. 

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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    Gregory Costa is a decent biologist, mediocre writer, terrible formatter, but true Lenovo enthusiast, who admires the use of their products in both the academic and industrial setting...when he's not busy delighting himself in science, nature, or his OkCupid profile.

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