Lenovo buys IBM's PC division, lays off thousands and moves much of the work to China. Then Lenovo sees huge sales declines while IBM sales remain strong. Consumers have voted with their dollars. Quality matters and people do not want Chinese junk.

Ever since Lenovo acquired IBMs PC business, it's been silently dropping crucial "Think" Features from it PCs and focussing more on making fashion devices like the TNPC (Taiwan New PC consortium), and other less prominent PC makers. IBM's "Think" features are what drives IBM's enterprise sales, and sales to anyone who needs their PCs for real work, instead of a device that looks good in a coffeee shop.

What are these features that Lenovo has been dropping? Universal docking--it is a big thing that earlier Thinkpads has nearly universal docking capabilities: A worker with a thinkpad can bring his thinkpad to his home, his office, to Bud's desk in Chicago, and Sam in New York and use his Dock and office setup. He could also have multiple thinkpads and a docking station at home and work. Enterprise system management built into the board--lenovo has placed less emphasis on this than IBM. Multiple monitor support--now that this is becoming popular, Lenovo appears to be dropping these features. The T30 and T43 (ATI Graphics) supported multiple monitors with a port replicator outside the box, the X60, X61, X200, and X200 do not, and have no expansion card equipped docking option. At the very least, Lenovo should mass produce an ExpressCard Dock for these machines--at least these would be backward compatible with the T43 and later machines.

And Thinkpads have to stay as a Thinkpad.