All well and nice but: What is the current Thinkpad worth its once trustworthy brand? The way to drive and keep the profits seams to be to lure customers who t

All well and nice but: What is the current Thinkpad worth its once trustworthy brand? The way to drive and keep the profits seams to be to lure customers who trusted a brand for years into buying quite frankly ridiculously manufactured surrogate products with the brand-label in the right place... well maybe turned 180 for the new coolness factor ;)