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• There is also a stub page Lenovo. That information should be incorporated here and Lenovo redirected to Lenovo Group. cbm 09:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Claiming Lenovo taken advantage of China's high tariffs on foreign brands is obviously unfair,because most of so called foreign brands goods are made within China now,and as you know, for attracting foreign investment, Chinese government promoting a policy which taxing the foreign invested or joint venture companies at a lower rate, we should say the foreign brands taking advantage of domestic ones in this case. of coz it's another story when it comes to IMPORT tariffs, but how many goods sold in China right now are really foreign made? so I modified the "foreign brands" to be "imports". 39degN 19:17, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

• When did IBM ever have a "virtual monopoly" on personal computers? They had a monopoly on the "PC" architecture for a brief while, but there were many other architectures in those early days...and by the time the PC gained control of the market, IBM had lost most of its marketshare to the clonses, as far as I know. 24.161.108.255 00:17, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

IBM did have a virtual monopoly on personal computers. But they lost in an antitrust case in which they were accused of monopoly. I remember that as having been taken around 1995. (Wikimachine 04:51, 17 April 2006 (UTC))

Contents 1 Overview 2 Competition 3 Products 4 Viral Ads 5 Olympic Game 6 Time-line

[edit] Overview

I made some changes that are more accurate on the history of Lenovo I deleted the Linux and battery story as I don't see how that should be the primary focus on Lenovo as both are minor instances in the 25+ year history of Lenovo

I also changed it to reflect how it become the #1 vendor in China as it has 1000+ stores all over China were people can directly buy Lenovo products (kinda like the Apple stores in the US)

Also Lenovo is not a Chinese company but it is an international company traded in Hong Kong with corporate HDQ in US

Lenovo487 17:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)lenovo487

[edit] Competition

Alienware does compete with Lenovo in the business market. You should probably see the front page of www.alienware.com before making such a claim.

I think that the competitors chapter is stating the obvious.

Proposal: in order to make Wikipedia more professional, let's delete the sectino on competitors. (Wikimachine 13:47, 20 May 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Products

Just because Lenovo launched the _60 line, doesn't mean the 40 series doesn't exist. IBM still actively sells the T42, T43, among others. Whom ever did that didn't do any research.

[edit] Viral Ads

3 Viral Ads, sometimes grouped into one, are floating around. They show a laptop displaying a hologram of a man, a kind of thruster system to make the laptop float in midair after a fall, and a shield that senses falling liquid and auto-deploys itself. The ads, especialy the one with the hologram, seem to good to be true. What is the protocol for adding this intel to the article?

Ads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCLMdXrBbNs&search=lenovo Matteboy2001 02:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

There is no protocol for adding advertising. Wikipedia isn't here for free advertising. SchmuckyTheCat 02:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

This isn't about advertising, but about potentially fake videos showing unreal or military-grade technology like balancing air thrusters and 3D holographic recording/projection.

Inclusion of these microscopic details is not useful and contains little or no scholarly merit. The article has already been tagged as suffering from potential recentism. pogo 21:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic Game

Lenovo is alos an Olympic Game Sponsor. Maybe talk a little bit on that?

[edit] Time-line

The timeline is copypasted straight from the Lenovo site, and is hardly NPOV. I'm not really sure should it be completely removed or heavily edited? 128.214.91.101 06:00, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

No-one commented so I modified the time line a bit, but it still needs work. It's also full of unverified claims, I'll begin looking into them as time allows. -Aryoc 08:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Contrary to the claim in the first paragraph, Lenovo was still the ninth largest PC manufacturer in 2004. Although the intent to purchase IBM PCD was announced, the transaction did not occur until May 2005. Only then did Lenovo become the 3rd largest PC manufacturer.

You're quite right, I changed it. You could've changed it right away, too. --Aryoc 07:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)