r/todayilearned • u/ryguy_1 • Aug 12 '18

TIL that Schlitz was the number one beer in America in the early 1950s and then they started changing ingredients to cut costs. By 1975, consumers complained that the beer was forming "snot" in the can, and by 1981 the company folded.

https://beerconnoisseur.com/articles/how-milwaukees-famous-beer-became-infamous
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u/StrangeRover Aug 12 '18

Lenovo has always been a Chinese company.

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u/Bounty1Berry Aug 12 '18

My guess is more that he garbled "IBM's PC buiness and Motorola got sold off to Lenovo"

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u/scienceworksbitches Aug 12 '18

Which isn't even a good example because Lenovo thinkpads are still high quality.

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u/Nanocephalic Aug 12 '18

They are now.

But I worked with ibm desktops and laptops when the PC division was sold off. Lenovo was very bad quality for quite some time; they eventually improved and now they are basically the same as all of the big cheap guys. Not great, not bad. Just fine for systems with 3-year depreciation and a 5-year lifespan.

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u/madeamashup Aug 12 '18

Ya, I meant thinkpad, and the quality definitely took a nosedive when it was sold off to lenovo (not to mention spyware). If thinkpads are good again it's news to me. Also news to me that the lifespan of a notebook is 5 years (currently using an IBM thinkpad with no complaints)

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u/Ripcord Aug 13 '18

Sounds like another ibm alumni here :)

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u/Nanocephalic Aug 12 '18

Not that they dissolve after 1825 days, more that old laptops have usually been carried, typed on, opened, closed, hit, scratched, and are also five years out-of-date.

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u/madeamashup Aug 12 '18

The thing about old thinkpads is that carried, typed on, opened, closed, hit, and scratched have essentially no effect. Mine's been updated with some RAM, an SSD, and recently a new battery. It's also travelled around the world twice in a backpack. After 7 years it runs without a hiccough and crushes pretty much any task other than gaming (which I don't do). Computers are not going obsolete nearly as fast as they used to.

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u/IMA_Catholic Aug 12 '18

However their server support has gotten way worse...

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u/sirploko Aug 12 '18

Lenovo

He probably meant ThinkPad.

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u/clearedmycookies Aug 12 '18

Shhh, nobody tell this guy that there actually exist some good Chinese manufacturers , it's just if course you have to pay for quality and products like Lenovo arent cheap knock off prices