End of an Era: The Imminent Demise of the ThinkPad

When IBM announced it was selling its popular line of ThinkPad laptop computers to the Chinese company called Lenovo, people scoffed and proclaimed that the ThinkPad's reputation as being a powerful and reliable device were over. They were right, but I never thought they were this right. Lenovo announced that their own demented version of IBM's ThinkPad, like Bizarro to Superman, will embrace the exact opposite of IBM's philosophies and only support Microsoft Windows. It never occurred to them that the reason the ThinkPad line was so popular was because of its legendary ability to run Linux?

ThinkPads come from IBM, the "we love Linux now" corporation. They didn't even have a Windows key, for God's sake. Show me a keyboard that doesn't have a Windows key on it and it'll either be a Mac or one of my beloved Model M's (Which were first produced by — you guessed it — IBM.).

So long, ThinkPad. My only consolation in this matter is that you'll be taking a company like Lenovo to Hell with you when you go.