Replacing a Thinkpad?

An anonymous reader writes "As a very happy Thinkpad T20 user (still working after 7 years), I always planned on replacing it with another Thinkpad T-series. However, Thinkpads are now produced by Lenovo, a Chinese company, and I can't quite bear to buy Chinese while the Burmese military are shooting at monks with the Chinese Government as their biggest backer. Maybe this is silly, as whatever I buy is likely to be made (at least in part) in China... but still, what are my options for something as well built as the Thinkpad T-series?"

Way of life

[packetmon]

and I can't quite bear to buy Chinese while the Burmese military are shooting at monks with the Chinese Government as their biggest backer. You're right. By the way didn't I just see you leave Walmart?

Re:Ummmm

[anthonyclark]

You do realize Lenovo is selling the Thinkpads now because... *drumroll* they were the company that made them all along?

Lenovowned!

You could try...

[Bin_jammin]

an abacus. They're great for math, unless you've developed something against the ancient Babylonians while living under your rock. The fact is that you're looking at Chinese mad goods no matter what you buy, you said it yourself. You're either going to buy an OLPC when they're available (at only slightly less power than you've already got) or buying Chinese. Don't like it? Who do you think made that T20 for IBM before?

Re:the t series

[MarkGriz]

I'd go with the T-1000 [wikipedia.org]. Those things are rugged as hell.

Re:the t series

[eln]

I considered that option, but I work in a steel mill, so it wouldn't work for me.

Hello? Yes, this is the SPDC. What?

[Anonymous Coward]

An anonymous coward on Slashdot has just refused to buy a new Thinkpad?
CEASE FIRE!
Get the Red Cross in here NOW!
Tell the monks no hard feelings, no?
What were we thinking?!

See how that works?

Re:The point about America...

[Stonent1]

No I think donating to a "Bush Sucks" organization would be highly encouraged in China. :P

Re:the t series

[Anonymous Coward]

OLPC is cool and all, but you do realize that they are ergonomically designed for kid-size hands, right? Do you just mindlessly parrot whatever news fads you read about on the Internet?

Re:by that logic...

[Hijacked Public]

Leaders like Saddam who routinely kill their own people en masse should not be allowed

And yet here we are, trying to figure out how a guy in the US might possibly buy a laptop without funding the Chinese government.

Re:Ummmm

[OS24Ever]

Actually, the appropriate term is LEGO and my son is 4 and daughter is 6 and they're not touching my collection for a few more years. the last time I let me daughter play with my LEGO sets she lost the face plate on one of my astronauts and those things are expensive to replace (Astronaut Series from mid 90s, not late 90s) ;)

Re:the t series

[PlatyPaul]

I'd rather go with the T-X [wikipedia.org] for its... erhm... features.

Re:General Strike November 6th

[The Slashdot Guy]

November 6th is not a good day for me. I have to work. Could you reschedule it for a Sunday?

Re:the t series

[melstav]

While the Toughbooks may survive a drop into a vat of molten metal, I have on good authority that they don't take well to being dropped into a spinning dynamometer.

Buddy of mine who works for one of the "Big Three" had the Toughbook on the hood of a car on one of the dynos. Walked away from the laptop and the testing tech gunned the engine. Computer vibrated off the hood and went into the dyno's rollers.

My friend picked up all the pieces, put 'em in a box, went back to his desk, and called the HelpDesk and said: "There's something wrong with my laptop. It won't boot. It booted up fine this morning. I think you need to send someone out to take a look at it."

The look on the HelpDesk technician's face when he looked into the box is said to have been priceless.

Re:Insightful?!!!!!

[FauxPasIII]

> The US has their problems, but if you want to compare them to China, it's not even
> close. Where are the listings for the Chinese government's transgressions?

Forgive me for not having an orgasm of patriotism at the revelation that we're not the
single most oppressive regime in the world. Lowering the bar much?

Re:by that logic...

[Knara]

Ever heard any Japanese rap? There's an atrocity, and I don't even really listen to rap.

Re:Yes, you're being silly

[Un pobre guey]

What?!! You're thinking logically and taking actual facts into account? What are you, nuts? You're crazy! If we all get together and paint a mural with happy things like flowers and butterflies, everything will be whole again. It will be healed. Democracy will sprout. People will be liberated.

Just imagine how beautiful the world would be if people stopped buying laptops made in China! Their repressive regime would magically vanish! It would inspire the feudal quasi-dictatorships of the rest of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Eurasia to also disappear, and a New Age of peace and happiness would reign!

Blah blah blah. Good look having anyone pay attention to you. You're being reasonable and realistic, and therefore boring and politically incorrect.

Re:Ummmm

[Andrewkov]

In Soviet Russia, Lenovo owns you!

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Re:Yes, you're being silly

[Dr_Barnowl]

Dude, your manners suck, are you American?