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CompUSA, TigerDirect online sales photos show Lenovo ThinkPad in manila folder
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| 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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Is imitation the sincerest form of flatter or just an...
Apple Rip Off
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posted on
03/19/2008 9:07:38 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(There ain't no such thing as a free app...)
To: Swordmaker
I also notice the Thinkpad is a grand more than the “overpriced” Mac.
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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)
To: Richard Kimball
The X300 has a 64GB solid-state drive, and so should be compared to the $3,100 version of the Air.
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posted on
03/19/2008 9:13:30 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
To: Swordmaker
For what it's worth...
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posted on
03/19/2008 9:14:35 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
To: Petronski
Comes with XP!!! So much for Vista.
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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.)
To: Sunnyflorida
Comes with XP!!! That's a plus.
If only it could come with OS X...
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posted on
03/19/2008 9:22:31 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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.
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posted on
03/19/2008 9:28:40 AM PDT
by
MediaMole
To: Swordmaker
Copy Caters. <<<<< Is that how you spell it?
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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.)
To: Swordmaker
SUPPORT CHINESE!!! YOU BUY LENOVO NOW!!!
To: MediaMole
If you’d only heard the dirt that’s been thrown at Mac fans over the years!!!
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.
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posted on
03/19/2008 10:42:12 AM PDT
by
Sax
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:
- the Thinkpad's processor is 25% or 33% slower (1.2 GHz vs. 1.6 or 1.8)
- the Thinkpad ships with half the RAM (1 GB vs. 2)
- the Thinkpad's advertized thickness at its its thinnest point is almost that of the Air at its thickest (.73" vs. .76")
- The ad in the OP shows a Thinkpad being stuffed into a manila envelope with two hands, while the Air ad shows it sliding easily out of an envelope with one hand.
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.
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.”
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posted on
03/19/2008 11:25:06 AM PDT
by
Terpfen
(Romney's loss in Florida is STILL a catastrophe. Hello, McCandidate!)
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.
To: Swordmaker
Anyone (like me) who builds computers is not impressed with anything that thin.
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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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posted on
03/19/2008 11:57:46 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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.
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posted on
03/19/2008 12:12:01 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
To: AppyPappy
Re: Thin laptops
You build your own home-brewed notebooks?
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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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