When IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo back in 2005, I wondered whether the high level of innovation that IBM had pioneered in the PC field (after all, the company invented the modern PC) would continue.  My fears, it turns out, were completely unfounded.
Lenovo has not only been a good steward for the IBM product line, which includes ThinkPad notebook computers, but has released machine after machine that outdistance the competition.
When the ThinkPad X300 was released (the current model is the ThinkPad X301), around the same time as Apple’s …

After a pleasant (and very fast) drive in a BMW M3 from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and a few days of meetings there, I returned to New York via American Airlines Flight 22.  Similar to the outbound flight to San Francisco, once we hit 10,000 feet, I was able to turn on my Lenovo ThinkPad X300 and find several Gogo hotspots.
For most of the flight, I was able to surf the Web, watch videos, read news, send and receive e-mail, and even check the flight’s exact position.  I …

ON BOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 15, 11:45 A.M. EDT
American Airlines was the first U.S. airline to announce in-flight Internet service for domestic flights. The first (test) phase of the American Airlines Gogo Internet service started in the middle of last year on the company’s fleet of 15 767-200 aircraft, which fly its transcontinental routes.
Recently, the company announced it will expand the service to over 300 domestic aircraft (the service doesn’t work over the Atlantic or Pacific oceans).
I am writing this from American Airlines Flight 15, New York (JFK) to San …

Three days before I am to fly to China, I encounter a problem with my ThinkPad.  With the help of Lenovo tech support in Atlanta, Georgia I find out that my ThinkPad’s wireless card has gone POOF.  The day before I am to leave I receive a replacement card.  I call tech support again, and am told to watch the instructional videos on line that show how to remove the 4 screws for the keyboard, 9 screws for the palm rest, and then how to swap out the wireless card, …