dont worry, just PM me ur address then i will reprint and send it to you by normal post.

the answer is no....according to latest news at which is not officially announce yet...ibm may buy back their pc and notebook business...and lenovo malaysia have poor handling in webpage and unable to update their webpage on time with their new models....but ibm malaysia have much better info display in their server....do u notice it?

I doubt IBM will re-purchase their PC division from Lenovo. The most it could do now is introduce its own new line of notebooks, but I doubt they would want to re-enter the PC market since it is so congested and margins are extremely slim.
Lenovo might have simply "forgotten" about the Malaysian market. I think for a country as big as Malaysia, they sell less Thinkpads than they do in Singapore and other developed nations, so they'd rather promote their own Y series. It's very unfortunate because Malaysian consumers don't appreciate why business notebooks are priced much higher than their consumer counterparts yet have lesser features (this applies to all brands).

Yea.. Thinkpad is definitely great compared to others. I am a R52 user here. It serves me well, almost 2 years dy still don't have any problem. Hopefully it wil last for years as what I told my friends, this is gonna be my laptop for next few years. Even if it spoilt, the next lappy I am going to purchase is Thinkpad series as well.

well ... if the pricing is right for consumer after the buy back. i'm happy to hear that 

It just won't happen because IBM isn't keen on the PC market anymore. The Z series is also being slowly phased out as Lenovo is expected to launch a new T61 soon.
Not sure if guys notice, but the new Thinkpads are now shipping without the IBM tricolour logo anymore, making it a full Lenovo branded device.

T61 for Thinkpad series, is this the one tat comes with santa rosa proc. wonder wat's the price gonna be, i guess i gotta hold on my plan of buying R60 then ... hehehe ...

by the way, i did notice that the new thinkpads do not hav IBM logo anymore sad, tha tricolour logo is a trademark of thinkpad

cant see the design yet, but got alot of news regarding T61 will be release soon probably after Intel release santa rosa on May

well ... it's looks ok. erm ... i dont think it's a santa rosa. btw, if you visited pc fair last week, you can see tat the R and T series oso come with tat logo.
i couldn't agree more on this

no IBM logo anymore.
so it's mean that IBM not responsible anymore to it's old school Thinkpad anymore? total Lenovo now?
agree with some forumer. i prefer the IBM logo.

Hey, just believe me because I see a lot of Thinkpads everyday, so I know what I'm saying

I don't understand what's the attachment/nostalgia with IBM's PC business. It no longer exist and Think machines were a legacy product from that division. The product line will remain as a brand of Lenovo since it is the cornerstone of the acquisition.

IBM has reshaped itself as a software and services firm (although they still retain their high margin server business). In the next decade, people will hardly even remember the days of the IBM computers.

The 15" T60s are no longer offered in 4:3 aspect ratio. They're now all widescreen since it is cheaper to produce them (widescreen LCDs are cheaper due to economies of scale). The ones still sold in the Malaysian market are most probably old stock (get them while you can). Are the T and X series even sold in Malaysia anymore? Lenovo seems to have scaled back Thinkpad distribution and sales in "emerging markets".

Lastly, shouldn't quality be about the same? I believe IBM has outsourced Thinkpad production for the last decade or so, like every other OEMs.

Hah! So nice to see "IBM ThinkPad Mobile Computing Club" here! 

Where can i immediately buy a compatible RAM (1GB) to add on to my ThinkPad T42, sytem model 2373P43? Kesington ram don't work on my machine. Do you reckon I should add 2GB straight away?

Please advice what's the cost and best place to get it - 1GB and 2GB so i can compare price. And with contact numbers too so I can call to check if they have it before I go all the way and to find it's "out of stock." Thanks!

And am signing in too! Here's the image of my wonderful machine...


Another DieHard IBM ThinkPad Fan

Thankyou, thankyou, bro! 
It's a plastic-based sticker. Bought it at one of the sticker stalls at the Damansara Utama pasar malam. The entire pasar malam moved to Kota Damansara end of last year i think... they still operate from 9pm-4am.

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