Chinese Lenovo Buy IBM's PC Division

[kerb]

Story can be found here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4334075.stm

[Dr. Dastardly]

This was pretty big news last year. Thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=100307)
But I guess its just getting OK'd now. Moving at the speed of bureaucracy!
Well billions of dollars going from one hand to the other probably takes time. :p

[748s]

like the doc says it was news last year.
two good articles on the sale are here (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20041209.html) and here (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20041216.html)