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The name "ThinkPad" was inspired by IBM's scratch pad. Every IBM employee or person who goes to the IBM training center for training will get a scratch pad ("pad" in English) with the company's motto "THINK" printed on it.
The design of ThinkPad is inspired by traditional lunch boxes. The initial design work of ThinkPad was undertaken by IBM's Yamato Design Center in Japan. The pure black appearance of the ThinkPad is inspired by a traditional Japanese lacquer lunch box: the Shokado Bento. It is completely black and is often used to hold lunch.
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After Lenovo fully launched the new model, the sales decline that many people expected did not occur. ThinkPad is still the preferred brand for mainstream business, and because Lenovo adopted The new sales idea makes the originally high-priced ThinkPad laptops cheaper, making them closer to the sales price of ordinary laptops.
This has promoted the further increase of ThinkPad sales, especially in the Chinese market. ThinkPad sales are increasing month by month. The plan for 2006 is to ship 950,000 ThinkPad laptops. You must know that ThinkPad laptops It only reached 1 million units on March 16, 2005.
In other words, after Lenovo fully took over ThinkPad, Intel officially released the Core 2 notebook processor, and Lenovo simultaneously released updated Z61, T60 and X60 (including R60) notebooks, Lenovo, the Lenovo trademark, finally appeared. on ThinkPad notebooks, and this is consistent with Lenovo’s strategic steps: suppress first and then increase.
IBM’s trademark right is only for five years. If Lenovo does not put its trademark in a prominent position, it will be a very big problem for Lenovo once IBM’s trademark cannot be used. . So taking advantage of Intel's new processors, Lenovo began to mark ThinkPad notebooks with the Lenovo trademark.
At this point, it can be said that Lenovo’s absolute control over ThinkPad is slowly emerging, and IBM’s influence will gradually weaken, leaving only the ThinkPad brand.
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