ThinkPad is a line of business-oriented laptop and tablet computers produced since 1992. It was originally designed, created and manufactured by the American International Business Machines Corporatio
A 1980s-era IBM THINK notepad (above), which inspired the laptop name, and the notepad refill information (below)
IBM/Lenovo's Yamato Lab where the Think line of products is developed
A ThinkPad's characteristic boxy black exterior (X201 on top of an X220)
A typical IBM design example (2000s ThinkPad T20)
Lenovo Group Limited, trading as Lenovo, is a Hong Kong–based Chinese multinational corporation and technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, per
ThinkPad
…designed, created and manufactured by the American International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. IBM sold its PC business to the Chinese company Lenovo in 2005; since 2007, all ThinkPad models have been manufactured by Lenovo. The ThinkPad line was first developed at the IBM Yamato Facility in Japan…
Headquarters in Haidian, Beijing, China
Lenovo advertisement at the Consumer Electronics Show, 2012
In 1984, Lenovo was founded in Beijing by a team of eleven engineers from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), led by Liu Chuanzhi.