Lenovo, maker of ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops for businesses, on Thursday announced its first globally available line of notebook PCs aimed at consumers, the IdeaPad Y510, Y710 and U110. “Given that the consumer market represents over 40 percent of the opportunity worldwide, this is obviously a very big opportunity for Lenovo to continue to beat the market average growth rates, and we hope an opportunity for our customers as well as we intend to make products that should deliver a new level of benefits they have not seen before,” said Lenovo’s Craig Merrigan.
They will lose any edge they gained with their horrid mismanagement. Laptops ordered in November 2007 have yet to be received and are currently reported to have potential delivery dates in mid-February 2008. There was no warning that delivery would take 3 to 3.5 MONTHS. This is not the first time Lenovo has been poor with their deliveries. There was the major fiasco of Spring of 2007 when the forums were filled with consumers not receiving their laptops for 3 months post order. It appears to be a pattern of behavior on the part of Lenovo - lie to and take advantage of the consumer. The notebook quality is poor to mid quality for the Lenovo series and although they are pricier, the Thinkpad series is dropping in quality - thus getting to the point of not being worth the investment. It is a shame as the Thinkpads were at one time the most rugged and compatible laptop out there. One could run any operating system with dependable results and minimal pain. There were minimal to no 3rd party background running applications. That is no longer the case now - the laptops come smothered in non-essential, resource hogging junk. We were hopeful that IBM would take some of Dell's marketshare and force companies like Dell to honor their commitments to consumers and to place more emphasis on quality customer support. When IBM sold its laptop unit to Lenovo, there was a promise of continued quality and better pricing. Initially it appeared that Dell would lose marketshare, wake up and remember the reason it grew large. The marketshare of the other laptop manufactures may not be as affected as originally thought due to mismanagement on the part of Lenovo. Instead of honoring its promise, Lenovo is acting like any other cheap 'take advantage of the consumer' company that is out there. This will be their achilles heel. Dell, et al have no one but themselves to blame. Lenovo will be following Dell's footsteps if they don't clue in that Americans expect a company to follow through on what they advertise they offer.
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Lenovo Leaps Into Consumer Market Melee With New Laptops
Posted by: Walaika Haskins January 3, 2008 08:57 AMLenovo, maker of ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops for businesses, on Thursday announced its first globally available line of notebook PCs aimed at consumers, the IdeaPad Y510, Y710 and U110. “Given that the consumer market represents over 40 percent of the opportunity worldwide, this is obviously a very big opportunity for Lenovo to continue to beat the market average growth rates, and we hope an opportunity for our customers as well as we intend to make products that should deliver a new level of benefits they have not seen before,” said Lenovo’s Craig Merrigan.
The notebook quality is poor to mid quality for the Lenovo series and although they are pricier, the Thinkpad series is dropping in quality - thus getting to the point of not being worth the investment. It is a shame as the Thinkpads were at one time the most rugged and compatible laptop out there. One could run any operating system with dependable results and minimal pain. There were minimal to no 3rd party background running applications. That is no longer the case now - the laptops come smothered in non-essential, resource hogging junk.
We were hopeful that IBM would take some of Dell's marketshare and force companies like Dell to honor their commitments to consumers and to place more emphasis on quality customer support.
When IBM sold its laptop unit to Lenovo, there was a promise of continued quality and better pricing. Initially it appeared that Dell would lose marketshare, wake up and remember the reason it grew large. The marketshare of the other laptop manufactures may not be as affected as originally thought due to mismanagement on the part of Lenovo. Instead of honoring its promise, Lenovo is acting like any other cheap 'take advantage of the consumer' company that is out there. This will be their achilles heel.
Dell, et al have no one but themselves to blame. Lenovo will be following Dell's footsteps if they don't clue in that Americans expect a company to follow through on what they advertise they offer.