Can Your Notebook Survive A Good Trashing? @ Tech ARP
 

*Source: Tech ARP (http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=423)*
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IBM has always been famous for innovation. Fortunately, that tradition did not die with the sale of their PC business to Lenovo. In fact, Lenovo maintains an R&D investment that is 50% higher than the industry average. This includes maintaining research labs in the US (Raleigh, North Carolina), China, and Japan with 1,700 engineers, designers and scientists.

When it comes to the Lenovo ThinkPad notebook design, their principal design center is the Product Development Lab at Yamato, Japan. Lenovo ThinkPads may look similar to notebooks from other companies, but they incorporate unique technologies that make these notebooks the choice of many businesses. Many of these technologies may be invisible to the user, so Lenovo is now taking great pains in educating their users about the effort that goes into each ThinkPad.

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