Did you know that Lenovo makes phones? We don’t hear about’em very often on this side of the Pacific, but it turns out that they actually have a whole friggin’ lot of’em.
The newest addition is the Lenovo P990, a dual-band GMS/GPRS phone being offered over in China.
Find out all about it over at Mobilecrunch >>
When I think about mobile workstations, I immediately think of my MacBook Pro and after seeing the Lenovo W700 in-person two weeks ago, I can say without a doubt that the MBP is no mobile workstation. For one thing, the W700 weighs a ton. Exact weight on the 17-inch laptop is unknown (read: I forgot), but it’s not that heavy. However, it does come with its own customized laptop bag from Lenovo. But this isn’t just a big honkin’ laptop disguised as a desktop replacement. This can replace your desktop and then some.
The W700 will come equipped with Intel’s quad-core processor, dual hard drive bays (supports SSD) that can be RAID configured, Nvidia Quadro FX graphics card, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, built-in digitizing pad and color calibrator. The digitizer is Wacom-like and comes with a stylus that conceals itself on the right side and measures in at 4.7- x 3.2-inches. You have the option of rigging your W700 with a 400-nit WUXGA display and you can link up to external displays via Dual Link DVI, Display Port or VGA. There’s also a 7-in-1 card reader and five USB ports with the option to have a CF card reader and Blu-ray drive.
In conclusion, the W700 is a beast and could easily replace your desktop workstation in a heartbeat. The W700 will be available next month and starts out at $2,978. Full release after the jump.
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Although I’m sure that it will be blown out of the water by the $200 tablet PC Mike wants to build, in the absence of any actual competitor from that sector this X200 looks pretty nice. It’s got a nice laptop-oriented Core2 with a fast FSB, 2 gigs of DDR3 RAM standard, a 12.1″ screen at 1280×800, 3xUSB, express, and card reader slots. Like its predecessors it has a full keyboard and weighs over 4lbs, so it’s not really so much an “web tablet” as a convertible notebook. Click below for the full stats. [via HKNotebook, via GottaBeMobile]
In the latest string of netbook offerings comes Lenovo with the S10. The LED-backlit 10.2-inch screen netbook is small, but doesn’t skimp on the features. The keyboard might be cramped for some because it’s been reduced in size by 15 percent, but what would a netbook be without a couple caveats. The S10 will come with Windows XP (for reals, Yay!), two USB ports, a 4-in-1 multicard reader, an Express Card slot and built-in Wi-fi.
Powered by an Intel Atom processor, the S10 comes in two flavors: one with 512MB of RAM and an 80GB HDD with the other option including 1GB of RAM and a 160GB HDD. The S10 starts out at $399 and will begin shipping in early October.
Seeing as every other laptop maker worth its salt is making some kind of subcompact notebook or netbook or tiny laptop or what-have-you, Lenovo has decided to get in on it. Who’ll be providing the hardware is up in the air, though Pegatron (love that name) is an option, having made Lenovo’s Ideapads, and Wistron is as well, having put together nearly a million X-series Lenovos.
I’d bet on Wistron personally, since they seem to have the volume thing down, and Lenovo is going to need to make a lot of these if they’re trying to hit the sweet spot between enterprise and consumer.
The hot on the heels of the U110, Lenovo’s new U330 (above) is a 13-inch laptop that weighs about four pounds. It includes HDMI and a DVD burner and comes in black and blue.
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Apparently it’s Tuesday Laptop Madness, for Lenovo has announced a new laptop, the ThinkPad X200. It also released the IdeaPad U330, but that’s hardly as interesting.
The Intel Core 2 Duo (2.26-2.40 GHz)-powered ThinkPad X220 is supposed to compete with the useless MacBook Air, and has similar specs. It weighs 2.95 pounds and has a 12.2-inch LCD. As far as storage goes, you can select a standard 320GB hard drive, or pony up for the 64GB solid state drive. Whether or not that has any noticeable impact on your computing performance, there’s conflicting reports.
The usual wireless options are here like BlueTooth and Wi-Fi.
In other words, a tiny, fully functional laptop, just one without an optical drive.
She’ll set you back $1,199 in August when she’s available.
via PC World/Yahoo
Today marks a new day for Lenovo with the announcement of its first desktop, the IdeaCentre K210. For all intents and purposes, it’s just a desktop but it pulls a couple things from the laptop line that are unique and cool, like Veriface facial recognition technology. It also includes an anti-microbial keyboard and “Bright Vision”, which detects how far you are from the monitor and adjusts screen brightness. I’m kind of skeptical about the latter of those two.
You can get the IdeaCentre K210 with the following specs if you want.
* Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processors
* Intel® GMA 3100 integrated graphics
* Blu-ray HD-DVD Combo accommodates home theater
* High definition audio 5.1 for reverberating sound
* Gamers will love the optional upgrade to ATI Radeon 2600 XT (512MB)
Full specs after the jump.
Pricing starts at $379 after MIR and you can choose from a 19- or 22-inch monitor for $229 or $299.
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In the next few weeks, Lenovo is expected to formally announce its SL series of notebooks aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses. According to IDG News Service, the machines will be priced between $699 and $1,199 and will feature online backup services and LoJack anti-theft technology.
The SL series also looks to loosen its necktie "with a more stylish look and multimedia features such as a connector to display high-definition video and software for video creation" but the relatively low price brings tradeoffs that might alienate certain would-be business buyers, most notably, "the SL laptops will not come with the proprietary docking stations usually found on enterprise ThinkPads, but will include a USB-based port replication system."
The Chinese notebook enthusiast forum, 51nb, has the new Lenovo X200 all spec’d out and it looks very, very good. And these are just the baseline specs.
Based on Centrino 2 + VPro technology platform
45-nanometer Core 2 Duo CPU, the highest clock up to 2.4 GHz
DDR2 (667MHz) or DDR3 (1067MHz) Memory
12-inch WXGA LCD screen
64GB SSD or the maximum capacity of 7200 to 200 GB hard drive or transferred to a maximum capacity of 5,400 to 320 GB hard drive
T-series size keyboard
Optional 1.3-megapixel camera built-in
USB X 3, Express Card X 1,3 in 1 card reader
Magnesium alloy roof, the chassis
9-cell battery, with the largest life time up to 9.6 hours
To support the latest communication features, such as WiMax, GPS
Starting from 1.32 kg weight (X61 1.42 kg)
What do you think?
If you’re looking for a more full-featured laptop than the MacBook Air, the mythical Lenovo X200 might be for you, and now we’ve got updated specs — and a photo — for you to view.
The machine’s been rumored for awhile, but this leak confirms many of the things we’ve heard about this tiny laptop, including the apparent addition of a tablet model. Sweet.
What do you get in the small case? How does a Core 2 Duo at 2.4GHz, integrated WiMAX, GPS, Bluetooth, fingerprint scanner, and a forward-facing 1.3-Megapixel camera sound? Oh, and it burns DVDs.
Get this thing running OS X and I’m first in line.
We’ve been “thinking” about the Lenovo IdeaPads since CES but now that they’re actually launching we’re actually pretty exciting. The models I saw last night were quite striking, a massive departure from the standard Lenovo/ThinkPad fare and they had a special gimmick: face recognition. This sits on top of the standard Vista login and works quite well if you’ve enrolled yourself properly.
The wealth of textures and design tweaks make these some of the most fashion forward laptops I’ve seen. While I still like the M17x for sheer power, this wee laptop is running neck in neck with design-y laptops like the MacBook Air and the Sony VAIO thin and lights. With laptops so far into the commodity stage, it’s hard for folks to differentiate. I think this is a nice move for laptop lovers but hopefully all that high design translates into real performance.
Lenovo today took the wraps off a new line of notebook computers called the IdeaPad. The IdeaPad is meant as a consumer-oriented version of its popular ThinkPad and is meant to go head-to-head with Apple’s MacBook line.
The launch consists of three models: the U110, the Y510 and the Y710.
Lenovo pretty much sums up my opinion of the MacBook air in this very clever, very cheeky parody of that Air commercial you’ve been seeing for the last two months. In it, an Air is taken out of an manila envelope, just as Steve the Great did at MacWorld in January.
Then, all the components it’s missing (optical drive, 3G wireless, etc.) are plugged into a hub, which is plugged into the single USB port. Then it all gets crammed back into the envelope.
It’s a clever way of advertising the X300 ultraportables, laptops we like anyway. They’re not as slick as the MacBook Air, but if it ran OSX, I’d pick one up in a heartbeat.
Lenovo’s little notebook, the U110 that I drooled all over at CES will be available starting tomorrow at Lenovo’s site and will be available in stores mid-May. A quick refresher in case you’ve forgotten what makes this IdeaPad so special. The U110 sports a red and now black top with raised tendril design. The 11-inch notebook can be outfitted with a 120GB drive, up to 3GB of RAM, a 1.6GHz Intel Centrino proc, and built-in camera, but it’s weight entices me even more. A 2.3-pound laptop with 8 hours of battery life sound pretty good to me, but with a price tag starting at $1,899, I might rethink this one.
Here’s something we’ll probably never see stateside; it’s a mobile internet device (MID) from Lenovo called the IdeaPad U8. It works on China’s 3G TD-SCDMA network (I have no idea what that means) and it’ll be available with 4-, 6-, or 10-gigabytes worth of storage. It’s apparently got an Atom chipset in it, although the interface looks a little pokey from time to time. I have no idea what it’ll cost or when it’ll be available because I grew up in Minnesota and they didn’t offer Chinese as a language class in school, just French or Spanish. Oh, and some of the weird kids took German.
via SlashGear
We didn’t really delve too far into this for specs, but if you’re looking for a new laptop on the cheap then check out the Lenovo outlet store. Some of them are discounted by about 40%. Maybe the kids need a laptop or something. Check it out.
Our buds over at Laptop have the X300 on hand and it’s all on tape. Their unit is equipped with the following:
* 64GB SSD Drive (standard)
* 2GB RAM (you can get up to 4GB)
* 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor SL7100
* Ultrathin DVD burner
* 6-cell Li-Ion Battery (claimed life of 4.5 hours or so)
* Ports: 3 USB, external display, headphone, ethernet
* EV-DO from Verizon Wireless
* GPS
