Ashton Kutcher is Product Engineer at Lenovo Now

[tomc100]

Actors can be anything you want them to be without experience or expertise. Just look at Obama.

 

[childofthekorn]

I have to say it.

Lenovo just punked us all.

 

[Rhinofart]

@SuperAxilla
Of course they are the brand you have to repair the least, because NOBODY buys them. In all my 15+ years in IT, I've seen 5 IBM / Lenovo products. 3 of them were at a Lenovo demo.

 

[hector2]

Ashton a product engineer ? No, he's playing a product engineer in an ad. I've been in the semiconductor business for 40 years and all the product engineers I know have degrees in electrical engineering. You need to know a lot about electronics --- and not just what buttons to push

 

[ForumResponseEngineer]

How does someone without an actual engineering degree or engineering license receive the title of "engineer"? I guess a professional artist should change their job description to a Canvas Engineer and a teacher should be an Education Engineer, just to keep things simple. And now I declare myself a Forum Response Engineer!

 

[Geef]

His education shouldn't be too much of an issue. Some of the richest men in all of America barely had any education at all. Cornelius Vanderbilt stopped going to school when he was 11 so he could start work. John D. Rockefeller managed to finish high school and took a 10week course in bookkeeping and ended up being One of or The richest man in history.

 

[timaahhh]

*Alec Baldwin Voice* You can't out act me boy don't even try.

 

[rebel1280]

For those of you wondering why? Brand recognition. On the flip side, he may actually provide valuable insight as to whats trending, seeing as that's what he is, a walking fashion trend. There have been times when one of my employees brings up the outside the box random semi-serious idea that gets our team thinking in the right direction. We didn't go with his idea per say, but it sparked another fantastic avenue that pushed our software design team in the right direction.

 

[Murissokah]

Love how they throw that word engineer around. Makes me wonder why I bothered to go to school to become an engineer... Apparently its not necessary anymore

Damn right. Where I live you actually need a license to have an engineer position.

We should name Hugh Laurie a doctor and consult with him.

 

[halcyon]

Poor Lenovo.

 

[ronch79]

Product engineer? So he really does REAL engineering work? Like AutoCAD and all that? I don't think so. I would think he's more like a 'whiner' telling the REAL engineers which colors to use and what kind of features would be nice and if the buttons on their products have that nice feel when you press them and if the appearance of their products sucks. Nothing more. And oh yeah, the ads, of course.

So, product engineer? I don't think so.

 

[airborne11b]

He doesn't need a bachelor's of Engineering, he's basically going to be dealing with "testing" and user-experience design.

People dismiss "celebrities" but lets look at what he can actually bring to the table that a joe-blow can't. For one, he's a very wealthy person being an actor, and he's a tech enthusiast (or so he claims). If he is a tech enthusiast, he is someone who's probably burned hundreds of thousands of dollars on gadgets over the years, if not more. So he probably has a much larger range of experience as an end user than the average middle class guy, giving him a lot more experience to draw from in whatever ideas he brings to the table.

On top of all this, he brings his name for advertising and any other connects he may have.

Creating the "best" product has nothing to do with how successful it will be. If that was the case, PC gaming would dominate console gaming in popularity, but we know that isn't the case. Usability is key. The design of how the product is simplified and used by common folk is the key to a product's success. That's what this guy is going to be assisting with. He's not a real "Engineer" as we would normally use the title lol.

 

[smile9999]

seriously a product engineer, so engineer gets handled out to anyone now while the rest of us have to work hard to earn it, just awesome

 

[bochica]

@SuperAxilla
Of course they are the brand you have to repair the least, because NOBODY buys them. In all my 15+ years in IT, I've seen 5 IBM / Lenovo products. 3 of them were at a Lenovo demo.

What IT field have you been working in? When my mom worked at First TN Bank, all they used were Lenovo's/IBM's. I work at a place that fixes both Lenovo's and Apple's, and they each repair 1,000 units a day. Both Apple and Lenovo are up in the Top 3 with ASUS as far as laptop manufacturers go.

 

[LordHaHa]

Dude, where's my Lenovo?

 

[Vigilence]

I guess anyone can be called an "Engineer" these days.

 

[smeezekitty]

ouch. For the brain deads here actually trying to praise this idiot...NEWS FLASH...HE NEVER FINISHED COLLEGE, NEVER STUDIED COMPUTERS, or computer science. he's a model, nothing else. gees, kissing up will not magically make your life better!

And you know what? that means practically nothing

 

[matrixzone5]

....its just a kickstand..........