Thinkpad's Home: Yamato labs-photos

All the products in thinkpad family are designed in Yamato laboratory in Japan. An Japanese technology press vistited Yamato lab and took about 12 photos(click and enlarge) as indicated in the following link in Japanese:
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2007/0611/gyokai208.htm
I use google translate it into English:
http://tinyurl.com/258tnf

Hope you guys enjoy it!

Cpterm

 

That place looks really high tech.

 

who cares when its ultimately scrapped together in china...where a tiny error sets off catastrophic failures

 

look at their sound room.. it looks like they are trying really hard to make sure the laptop sounds good in their recordings

 

gota love the translation titles: "Ishida Satoru child execution official"

 

The translated page was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while....

Also, renobo = Lenovo? Engrish?

 

I thought this translation was funny:

"With average load test, the woman riding, test is done at all right weight."

Let me tell you about my woman riding my load...

 

IBM's outsource partners are basically not changed after the pc division was bought by Lenovo. IBM's notebook computers were manufatured by LG Electronics and another company first, later due to the competition from Taiwan, it stopped the cooperation with these two companies in 2003 and 2004 respectively. After that, IBM notebook computer have three main partners, Wistron( http://www.wistron.com,a Taiwan company with factories in Shanghai and Guangdong in China),Quanta( http://www.quantatw.com, another Taiwan Company), and the Great Wall International ( http://www.greatwall.com.cn/5a/english.asp，a china mainland company). Great Wall mainly is doing final assemble. Motherboard level production are done by Wistron and.

 

Yes, funny translation... but better than nothing

 

Ishida Satoru child execution official?! =)

 

shes only #2, #1 is: "Yokota Soichi execution official"

 

look at the history of thinkpad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkpad
lenovo collabrated with ibm even before aquiring ibm's pcd.

 

As long as it is designed well and looked after China factories can make things very well.

Pretty much every consumer electronic around is made there, even your beloved Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, etc.

 

as far as I know all major computer brands are manufactured in China. Lenovo's site is the one of the best.

 

im talking about lenovos order management decacle so chill out china factory fanboys

 

The delay for the order in May is due to some special reason according to Thinkpad blog, lts see what about those orders in June. 2-3 weeks is not too bad for configurated system.

 

Is you other name "Tim"? "Special reason"? Care to elaborate on how these delays are "special"? Go read about how people have waited since the first week of may and still dont have a clear answer

 

The "specail reason" is according to the blog.It can be the truth or a lie or something else.
I just want to see if the order in June will be delayed or not. One mistake is OK, but continuing making mistake will be terrible.

 

Notice how all the management/sales is done in the US...

 

There is no "L" or "V" in the Japanese alphabet. English words are spelled using a separate alphabet. So actually "Renobo" is the correct way to say "Lenovo" in Japanese.