Lenovo Slashes US ThinkPad Price

Written by Adam Gosling

Thursday, 27 July 2006

Take a deep gouge out of its US pricing for the Lenovo ThinkPad notebook computers (formerly known as IBM ThinkPad) the company has cut its moved to stem a US desertion from the once mighty brand. According to this report on DigiTimes, Lenovo has cut its US pricing by as much as 33.3%, reducing the cost of a ThinkPad X60 to just US$1,399, down from US$2,099. The move could be in response to what IDC says is a 20.4% sequentially slide in the company's US sales in the first quarter of 2006. Worldwide the company suffered under a smaller, but no less substantial drop of 18%. The US market accounts fro 25 per cent 25% of worldwide shipments according to IDC figures. According to figures compiled by DigiTimes, all the top five notebook vendors, except Gateway suffered shipment declines for the quarter. Dell sunk by 15.8 percent from Q405 to Q106, while HP and Toshiba both also suffered single digit reductions. Gateway increased its sales and rose to fourth place with a 7.5@ sequential increase. Related news items HP Goes iPaq Mad -06/09/2007 Leather-Bound ThinkPad Has Its Own Nerd -06/09/2007 Fujitsu Siemens To Give Up On PDAs -13/08/2007 Toshiba Gets Serious With New Gaming Laptop -27/06/2007 Toshiba Becomes Latest AMD Customer -27/06/2007 Newer news items Acer's Core 2 Duo Laptops -12/09/2006 New Toshiba Notebooks Well Guarded -06/09/2006 Core 2 Duo Screams Into Laptop Market -29/08/2006 HP Docking Station Has Own Storage -30/07/2006 Dell's Embarrassment Grows: Another Laptop Fire -30/07/2006 Older news items Notebook Shipments to miss 2006 targets -12/07/2006 HP Gets Chic With New Laptops -06/07/2006 Lenovo Plans Olympics Notebook For China Market -21/06/2006 Be First Kid On The Block With This -15/06/2006 Alienware Releases Superman Notebook -08/06/2006 Tag This Now: