Years ago they ran a competition along with their "GoodWeird" campaign. I got high enough on the leaderboard of their little web game to win a (substantial) prize yet they refused to ever respond to me.
I don't care if ThinkPads are good, fuck them. Especially fuck their marketing team.
You're right, I got the direction of acquisition backwards, I'd thought IBM acquired Lenovo, not the other way around, my apologies. My vote is for IBM then.