BREAKING NEWS: Lenovo to acquire IBM Personal Comp

I don't think this is a good news ,IBM PC business is sold to Lenovo although Lenovo is the bigest computer company in china. I use Lenovo desktop 3 years before, I like their customer service, but I am not sure the quality of Lenovo/IBM thinkpad.

 

As chinese I am so happy with this news, but as a IBM customer I feel sadly.
I think the IBM employees who are out of china will be reduced, and a lot of chinese engineer will be hired .
I think my next laptop is HP or DELL.

 

I, sadly, have to agree that as a loyal IBM customer I'm skeptical of what this means for the ThinkPad quality. Now, although IBM is claiming that quality will remain and even improve, this is somewhat counter intuitive to the reason for their selling the business -- they weren't making enough profit. And in the PC business, you have to drive down parts pricing to increase product profits, and that usually entails using lower quality parts in a laptop. But maybe Lenovo has that figured out. My other big concern is that the IBM employees that are transferred to Lenovo will create company culture issues and this buy-out just won't work.

I'm torn on whether my next laptop should be a ThinkPad or not.