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CompUSA, TigerDirect online sales photos show Lenovo ThinkPad in manila folder
Mac Daily News ^ | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 10:22 AM EDT

Posted on 03/19/2008 9:06:20 AM PDT by Swordmaker

CompUSA, now "The All-New CompUSA" and TigerDirect (both are "Systemax" companies) are running promotional photos on their Lenovo ThinkPad X300 (see, the "X" in "X300" makes it cool, get it?) sales pages (US$2,799.99) that show the machine in an, uh... interesting sleeve:

MacDailyNews Take: Copying Apple is no substitute for innovation. This goes for hardware, software, and even advertising. Obviously, CompUSA and TigerDirect are employing a rather unique sales tactic: "We think our customers are idiots." CompUSA and TigerDirect got that right, at least.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computers; msfanboyssuck; mspos; thinkpad
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Mac Daily News then offers a palette cleansing look at the Apple ad on You Tube.
1 posted on 03/19/2008 9:06:20 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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Is imitation the sincerest form of flatter or just an...

Apple Rip Off
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2 posted on 03/19/2008 9:07:38 AM PDT by Swordmaker (There ain't no such thing as a free app...)
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To: Swordmaker

I also notice the Thinkpad is a grand more than the “overpriced” Mac.


3 posted on 03/19/2008 9:10:49 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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To: Richard Kimball

The X300 has a 64GB solid-state drive, and so should be compared to the $3,100 version of the Air.


4 posted on 03/19/2008 9:13:30 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Swordmaker
For what it's worth...


5 posted on 03/19/2008 9:14:35 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski

Comes with XP!!! So much for Vista.


6 posted on 03/19/2008 9:20:06 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar & we can join OPEC!!! || Write in Thomas Sowell for President.)
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To: Sunnyflorida
Comes with XP!!!

That's a plus.

If only it could come with OS X...

7 posted on 03/19/2008 9:22:31 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Swordmaker

This is the sort of snarkiness that makes Mac fans look bad. Just rip a computer because it isn’t a Mac, without even looking at the underlying machine.


8 posted on 03/19/2008 9:28:40 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Swordmaker

Copy Caters. <<<<< Is that how you spell it?


9 posted on 03/19/2008 9:29:27 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: Swordmaker

SUPPORT CHINESE!!! YOU BUY LENOVO NOW!!!


10 posted on 03/19/2008 9:45:24 AM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: MediaMole

If you’d only heard the dirt that’s been thrown at Mac fans over the years!!!


11 posted on 03/19/2008 10:12:35 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: Swordmaker

They should’ve been creative and showed it being slipped to someone under a closed door, or “make sure your kid doesn’t slide it under the fridge,” or something funny like that.


12 posted on 03/19/2008 10:42:12 AM PDT by Sax
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To: MediaMole
This is the sort of snarkiness that makes Mac fans look bad. Just rip a computer because it isn’t a Mac, without even looking at the underlying machine.

Who's ripping the computer? The OP was ripping an advertising campaign that is transparently copied from Apple.

Now, if I wanted to rip on the underlying machine, I'd mention that:


13 posted on 03/19/2008 11:09:32 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
Who's ripping the computer???

Lenovo ThinkPad X300 (see, the "X" in "X300" makes it cool, get it?) That's just snarky. Lenovo and IBM before have had the X series of laptops for years.

14 posted on 03/19/2008 11:13:35 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: MediaMole

That’s not very snarky at all. If anything, it’s a fact: advertisers DO make liberal use of the letter X to try and denote “xtreme kewlness.”


15 posted on 03/19/2008 11:25:06 AM PDT by Terpfen (Romney's loss in Florida is STILL a catastrophe. Hello, McCandidate!)
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To: MediaMole
Who's ripping the computer??? Lenovo ThinkPad X300 (see, the "X" in "X300" makes it cool, get it?) That's just snarky. Lenovo and IBM before have had the X series of laptops for years.

Once again, that's snark directed at the marketing -- not, as you said initially, at the "underlying machine."

And I have to agree with the OP that the "X" thing has gotten a bit tired (though I'll cut Apple some slack, because theirs is a Roman numeral and 10 follows 9). When a sugary sports drink is billed "X-Factor (one of the ten thousand varieties of Gatorade these days), it's out of control.

16 posted on 03/19/2008 11:25:43 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Swordmaker

Anyone (like me) who builds computers is not impressed with anything that thin.


17 posted on 03/19/2008 11:26:34 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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18 posted on 03/19/2008 11:57:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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To: AppyPappy
Anyone (like me) who builds computers is not impressed with anything that thin.

Those of us who build our own flat panel monitors using earthworms and pine cones are not impressed.

19 posted on 03/19/2008 12:12:01 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
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To: AppyPappy

Re: Thin laptops

You build your own home-brewed notebooks?


20 posted on 03/19/2008 12:28:59 PM PDT by Swordmaker (There ain't no such thing as a free app...)
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