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    ThinkCentre the size of a ThinkPad

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Andrew Baxter, Jun 9, 2004.

  1. Andrew Baxter

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    Link to new ThinkCentre R50

    http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/thinkcentre/tcbrand.html

    two questions:

    1) Why does IBM, a U.S. company, use the British spelling for its "ThinkCentre" desktop machines?

    2) If they're calling this announcement today revolutionary, in which a desktop is released that's the size of a notebook (or a box of Corn flakes cereal as their demo shows) then why not just get customers to buy a ThinkPad and use a port replicator, the profit margins are higher on notebooks anyway so they'd make more money.


     
    Andrew Baxter, Jun 9, 2004
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    I guess its what they call product differentiation ... and besides, with the ThinkCentre, you still have to lug around a monitor, keyboard etc ... so it targets a different market. While it is pretty minute, the ThinkCentre (S series) still use "full-sized industry-standard desktop components including 2 full-height PCI slots and 3 bays" (quoted from IBM ThinkCentre S Series Visual Tour)

    Come to look at the 3d tour, my slim-case desktop looks almost exactly like the S series, with its internal flip up rack that houses the optical drives.
     
    snappy, Jun 14, 2004
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