Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s No. 3 PC maker, will soon start selling low-priced computers targeted at small U.S. businesses, taking the Lenovo brand outside China for the first time, said an analyst familiar with the matter.
Lenovo, which last year bought IBM’s ailing PC business, plans to introduce a line of notebooks and desktops using processors from both Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., said Roger Kay, president of market researcher Endpoint Technologies Associates.
The new 3000 Series notebooks will be priced starting at $599, with low-end desktops going for $349, said Kay.
Do we get to listen to Congress whine all over again?
That’s a Japanese ad there. 😛
So many computer components are made in China, I don’t see the difference. I would like to see Congress do something about the currency exchange difference though.
Its too late,
For those few who have been watching the Olympics, they have already seen some of the commercials.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-lenovo11feb11,1,2451314.story?coll=la-headlines-technology
This is happening over a lot of product lines. US companies move all their manufacturing to China, import the cheap product to the US and still charge the old higher price. Meanwhile we have taught the Chinese how to make these products, and with their government assistance, their own brands come to the US at half the price of the old US brands. My Chinese DVD player cost $30 and works just fine. US brands will disappear. Bye Bye the “innovation economy”.
Thats Great!
Consumers have been over paying for computers for years now.
All they have to do is keep showing those creepy ads on the Olympics (the ones with the red fungus growing out of the keyboard) and Lenovo’s PC business is going to ail worse than IBM’s was.
Okay so you are making some kind of comment about Lenovo here, but why, as I read this on your page, is firefox telling me that it is “connecting to http://www.lenovo.com“? No criticism (I’m a, uh, fan?), I just wonder what they are doing.
L.D. Cullens
The image John used is from Lenovo’s website.
Ever since I was a kid and saw that “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” illustration about the Chinese walking 4 abreast past a line on the Earth never ever running out of people I knew they would end up being *trouble*… 😉
Hell, they already took the PC business away from IBM, maybe they’ll be buying General Motors soon. Google the term “bare branches” — with all the male Chinese offspring and not enough females for mates, they have the makings of kicking our collective U.S. ass with their excess of young, aggressive high-testosterone males.
Better take your vacation time and enjoy your life now… You ain’t gonna have a retirement!
Whoa, No one took the PC business away from IBM. IBM got a very nice chunk of money for it.
IBM probably got out of the market at the best time.
The Personal computer as we know it is 5-10 years from being dead…
Everything will be incorporated into hand held all in one devices and consumer products such as High Def TV’s
Just Plug in your Flash memory card and your good to go from anywhere.
Plug a raid device into your High def and watch tons of content.
IBM never really wanted a big hand in the PC market. Their main revenue came from other sources such as super computers, service and support.
The company wasted a Billion dollars on OS/2 in a failed attempt to compete with Windows.
As you can see from this new company the profit margin is declining.
China is a world superpower.