Virgin America CEO Loves His ThinkPad

Posted by | 04/30/2009 | 6 Comments

I sat across the aisle from David Cush on Virgin America’s inaugural flight from SFO to SNA yesterday. He was using a ThinkPad x60 and had a lot of good things to say about it. Naturally, I took the opportunity to shoot a GBM Shortcut.

Cush likes ThinkPads’ keyboards so much that he refuses to use any other brand.   He has an extended battery and has used his ThinkPad for up to seven hours on a single charge.

Many of Virgin America’s planes have GoGo WiFi on board, which you can access for $9.95 to $12.95 per flight for notebooks and $7.95 for handsets. Their entire fleet will be outfited with WiFi by the end of May.

GBM Shortcuts are sponsored by Lenovo.

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Xavier Lanier is the publisher of Gotta Be Moible and Notebooks.com. He's a mobile technology geek that uses an iPhone 4S, iPad 2, Galaxy Nexus and Kindle Fire on a daily basis. He's an expert photographer that shoots primarily with Nikon DSLRs. You can follow Xavier on Twitter @xavierlanier and Google+
  • blash

    Xavier I hope you got some extra sponsoring dollars from Lenovo for that XD

    But yeah, just re-affirms my faith in Virgin America and in the Thinkpad brand. Nice little video, thanks :)

  • http://www.gottabemobile.com Rob Bushway

    great stuff, xavier! I’ve always been a HUGE fan of Thinkpad keyboards. I have yet to find anything that comes close

  • Clayton

    Can’t watch the video right now, I’ll try to later.
    I agree with the thinkpad keyboard sentiment! They’re expensive but worth it, best of all brands I’ve used.

    Plus, even though some claim they’re ugly (don’t know how you could think that) I think they’re some of the best looking laptops out there!

  • oliver

    hmm. I like my X60t keyboard. But I wonder – would there have been this blog post and video sponsored by Lenovo if the Virgin CEO had praised his Dell?

  • http://www.notebooks.com Xavier

    Yup, we regularly praise products by all sorts of PC vendors in our videos. We also criticize products and companies whether they sponsor GBM or not.

  • http://www.fierysource.com FierySource

    Swift thinking Xavier, I mean grabing the interview, Good job. The Gottabemobile staff are lucky to have you onboard. Same here Rob – Thinkpad Keyboards are hard to beat in my book as well.

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