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...well. Even something as small as an iPod Nano will add to your carbon footprint, thanks to both the energy used to produce and ship it and the energy later needed to charge it (68 lbs. of CO2 over its lifetime, according to the British design consultancy IDC...
Some analysts are skeptical about the whole category. "Not everyone is keen on the idea of thumbing his way through life," says Shiv Bakhshi, a mobile-device expert at IDC, a Massachusetts research company. An early review from eWeek derided the 1.75-lb., $1,999 FlipStart as "the three C's: cool, clunky and costly," while Infoworld called it "flat out unusable for work." Using it is a lot like handling a laptop with a shrunken screen and keyboard; it's fine for a few minutes, though you'll feel cramped working for a longer stretch. But there are strengths...
...founded in Beijing in 1984 by 11 free-thinking researchers with $25,000 from a science academy. It markets PCs for every possible customer, from the top-of-the-line Pentium speedster to $300 bare-bones desktops. The growth potential for Lenovo in its home market appears limitless. IDC forecasts that PC sales in China will jump 57% from 2006 to 2010, to 36 million units. The U.S. market will reach 68 million units...
...also introducing Lenovo's SMS information system, by which distributors send daily sales reports. That allows managers to quickly adjust prices and product mix based on real-time data. Results? Lenovo's India sales jumped 44% in the second quarter of 2006 from the year before, according to IDC. "There was a fundamental shift when we worked with the Chinese team," says Neeraj Sharma, general manager of South Asia for Lenovo. Such gains might be harder to come by in mature markets like the U.S. and Europe. But over the past year, Lenovo has got space at major chains Office...
Lenovo must win market share beyond China to boost profitability. It has only 7.7% of the global market, to Dell's 19.1%. The PC market is slowing too. IDC predicts that global PC-sales growth will dip to 10.8% this year, from 16% in 2005. Lenovo "will be treading water until the market goes into a growth mode," says Richard Shim, senior analyst at IDC...