Not a spinoff. It was founded 20 years before and was the largest PC manufacturer in China 10 years before buying IBM's PC business.

Interesting. Did not know that. I thought someone bought the IBM laptop business and renamed it.

They did, but they also were a large existing manufacturer.

	▲	jolt42 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know what they had before but their identity seemed to be IBM's overnight (thinkpads and all).