New Thinkpad

I am typing this on my new Thinkpad, which I was able to buy at a ridiculously low price of 42k, well it is relatively low, compared to how other similarly spec’d branded laptops in the market… the difference? Its parts and components are made mostly in Asia, in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, with more expensive parts coming from Taiwan and Japan… All of these brought together and assembled in China. What does this mean? It means China has busted down the doors of production quality discrimination and stepped into the “quality” psyche of consumers and producers.

 

Kudos to Lenovo Inc. for purchasing IBM’s PC division, this is a huge development in Asian business, considering that IBM started the whole PC boom, its kind of ironic to see an Asian company buy them out. Maybe IBM realized that they were better off with letting themselves focus on their core competency, which has always been the big, mainframe/server business, and letting their smaller, consumer/personal computing division go to a more production-savvy Lenovo, which has China’s production muscle as part of its main business arsenal.

 

What do all of this mean? Well, simply put, watch out for a flood of cheap, branded, quality PCs and notebooks from China. This will energize the local and regional electronics sector and bring about a wave of democratization of IT technologies throughout more backward and rural areas of Asia, particularly the mainland.