An initial hiccup came when some in the U.S. They helped assure IBM’s corporate customers as well as any consumers who bought their products that everything would be business as usual, and that Lenovo would honor all past warranties and service their needs well into the future.
IBM LENOVO M3A780M PC
It turns out that Lenovo was able to coax most of IBM’s top PC execs to join the new venture. Plus, almost all of the IBM employees being sent to Lenovo in the deal were Big Blue lifers, and I suspected the top talent would choose to stick with the company they knew. At the very least, I figured the culture clash would be a major issue. Here was a Chinese company that was going to take over IBM’s famous PC business and try and make itself into a strong global brand. At first, I was highly pessimistic about the success of this venture. Since I was close to IBM and had been on their mobile advisory board at the time, myself and about eight other analysts were invited to go to Beijing to meet with Lenovo’s management team, speak with its executives and hear its vision for what had been IBM’s PC products. So on May 1, 2005, IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo - and over the last 10 years, Lenovo has become the #1 PC player in the world. But by 2004, IBM’s business had changed, and it was looking to get out of the PC hardware business.
IBM LENOVO M3A780M PORTABLE
For most of the 1990’s and early 2000’s, IBM had a strong PC business the ThinkPad was the anchor of their portable line. Their laptop morphed into what has become the very popular ThinkPad brand. Over the next five years, IBM’s laptop designs took advantage of newer screens, processors and battery chemistry.
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