IT: New design faces difficulty
(FT)
Updated: 2006-04-17 15:10
Bill Amelio, chief executive of Lenovo, has indicated that the company's
efforts to update the look of the ThinkPad brand of notebooks has not been well
received by customers, and are likely to be withdrawn.
Lenovo, which acquired the ThinkPad brand as part of its 1.75 bln usd
acquisition of IBM's personal computer division in 2005, launched a
titanium-clad oblong ThinkPad with a wide multimedia display last summer, the
first non-black model in the range.
However, Amelio told the Financial Times that corporate IT managers, who form
the core of the ThinkPad customer base, had not reacted well to changes to the
design.
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