On Feb 6, 12:11*pm, Harry wrote:
On 2/6/10 1:02 PM, Tim wrote:



"Lenovo has some neat new laptops coming out, and at very low prices.
Lenovo is the chinese company that used to manufacture IBM's
thinkpads, and then bought the whole operation. "

My wife has one and she likes it well. It's got windows vista and
hasn't had any problems with it except for the power supply died, but
they sent her a new one promptly. other than that, no other problems
that I know of.

My new Mac has pieces and parts from everywhere. The monitor is made in
Korea and the WD hard drive comes from Singapore. If you ordered one
just like it today, the monitor might come from Vietnam and the hard
drive from Malaysia.

And probably *their customer support, too.

Actually, the few times I have called "AppleCare" the past couple of
years, the "techie" was in Texas. One of the things Apple does somewhat
better than most of its competitors is after sales service. I've yet to
encounter a tech at Apple who seems to be reading off a script. And when
I called Epson for tech info about my new printer, the tech guy was in
the Norfolk area.

Cool! It's nice that those companies haven't exported those jobs...
yet. I hope they'll be encouraged to keep those jobs here.