[dijit]

What I find interesting is that the decline definitely exists but it's slow.

I might have expected something like 2-3 years until Thinkpads would be essentially toned down consumer devices, but it's nearly 20 years later now and Thinkpads (while certainly not legandary any longer) are still quite serviceable business laptops.

[falcrist]

I'll have to take your word on recent Lenovo laptops. It's been well over a decade since I got my Yoga 11. The hinge on that laptop was quite good. The keyboard sucked though.

Perhaps they retained enough of the original employees that workflow and procedures remained similar, which resulted in similar products for a long time.

Certainly the tooling wouldn't have changed immediately.