Lenovo unveiled its new line of ThinkPad notebooks with Intel Ivy Bridge processors today. For the most part these are your usual high-end laptops with a focus on business-friendly features. But one model that stands out from the crowd is the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. This is Lenovo’s first ThinkPad-branded ultrabook, and it looks like a pretty compelling option for anyone…
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Lenovo’s taking a truth-in-advertising approach with two upcoming desktop computers, and calling them the ThinkCentre M92p and M72e “tiny” desktop PCs. Each computer measures just a little over 1.3 inches thick and looks more like a USB DVD drive than a full-fledged computer. Lenovo is aiming the PCs at business customers though, so the company is instead comparing them to…
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Lenovo is introducing a new set of software optimizations for Windows computers that the company says will allow a PC to boot more quickly. Lenovo says the average PC with its new Lenovo Enhanced Experience 3 (EE3) software boots in just 24 seconds. That’s for a PC with a traditional spinning disk hard drive, not a solid state disk. Lenovo says that’s…
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Looking for last year’s notebook with last year’s 4G wireless technology and don’t mind signing a 2-year contract to get a good price up front? Then has Sprint got a deal for you. The wireless carrier is selling the Lenovo IdeaPad S205s portable notebook with 3g and 4g WiMAX capabilities for $199.99 when you sign up for 2-year service plan. The…
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This summer Lenovo plans to launch two new mini-laptops as part of its IdeaPad S series. The IdeaPad S200 will feature an Intel Atom dual core CPU, while the S206 will have a dual core AMD chip. Both models will be available with solid state storage and full-sized, island-style keyboards. Prices are expected to start at around $349. While neither…
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The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga is a Windows 8 convertible tablet-style notebook with an unusual design. Instead of twisting the screen to fold down flat over the keyboard when you’re using the computer in tablet mode, you simply push the screen back nearly 360 degrees until you have a flat computer with the keyboard facing one direction and the screen the…
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The Lenovo IdeaTab S2109 is an unusual tablet by Android tablet standards. It has a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel IPS display which makes it look a bit more like an iPad or HP TouchPad than the widescreen 7, 9, and 10 inch tablets that are all the rage these days. We first spotted this tablet in an FCC…
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The Lenovo IdeaPad U310 and U410 ultrabooks are expected to go on sale in May for $799 and up. The company introduced the 13 and 14 inch ultraportable laptops a few months ago, and now it looks like they’re stopping by the FCC for regulatory approval on its way to store shelves. You can find some product details and a…
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Microsoft plans to release its next-generation Windows operating system to the public later this year, and the company is working with PC makers on tablets, notebooks, and other computers that will run Windows 8. So when websites start running stories about Dell or Lenovo executives claiming that they’ll be the first companies to launch Windows 8 tablets, I think it’s…
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A previously unannounced Lenovo tablet called the IdeaTab S2109 has popped up at the FCC website. Detailed photos and specifications aren’t available yet, but the tablet appears to have a TI chip — and the folks at Engadget suggest that it may have a 9.7 inch, 4:3 aspect ratio display. The one drawing of the tablet available certainly doesn’t make…
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If you blinked you probably would have missed it… but at CES this year Lenovo quietly introduced a few new members of its low-cost S series of netbooks and portable notebooks. They kind of got lost in the shuffle of tablets, ultrabooks, and other devices Lenovo was showing off… and it looks like the Lenovo IdeaPad S110, S200, and S206…
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Lenovo has added a new 13.3 inch ultrabook to is IdeaPad U line of thin and light laptops. The Lenovo IdeaPad U300e features an Intel Core i5 processor and a $959 price tag, putting it squarely in between the cheaper IdeaPad U260 and the pricier IdeaPad U300S. The new model sports a 1366 x 768 pixel display, 4GB of DDR3…
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