Lenovo is adding a new notebook to its lineup, and weighing in at 3.9 pounds and offering up to 5 hours of battery life, the Lenovo M30 looks like it could be a reasonably portable notebook.
What’s more, the laptop features an Intel Haswell processor and a starting price of about 500 Euros, which suggests it could sell for around $500 in the US if and when the Lenovo M30 makes it across the pond.
The laptop was first spotted at Lenovo’s Swedish website.
The Lenovo M30 isn’t exactly a high-end computer. But its specs show that mid-range portable notebooks are a lot nicer in 2014 than they have been in years past.
It’s powered by an Intel Core i3-4010U processor and features 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive with 8GB of solid state cache.
The notebook has a 1366 x 768 pixel display, 1 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 3.0 ports, Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, and features HDMI and SD card slots. It runs Windows 8.1.
What you don’t get is a high resolution display, a touchscreen, or other premium features like a backlit keyboard. It’s likely this machine will be marketed as a notebook rather than an ultrabook — but its thin and light design a pretty good demonstration of the impact Intel’s ultrabook push has had on the mid-range laptop market.
Lenovo hasn’t yet announced official pricing or release countries for the Lenovo M30 laptop.
via Mobile Geeks
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8 Comments on "Lenovo M30 13 inch notebook shows up in Sweden"
“What you don’t get is a high resolution display, a touchscreen, or other premium features”
Yea a $100-150 (100-150€) chinese tablet gets you that PREMIUM what makes “higher end” ultrabooks so SPECIAL..
There’s no reasonable way to explain why cheap tablets have 1080p screens while midrange note/ultrabooks have so low resolution and quality screens.
900p or 1080p panels are not notably higher priced than the lowres ones, just $50-100 more as replacement parts for consumers, much less for manufacturers.
Bullshit. There was no discussion about PPI, and infact it is quite irrelevant to my point. Let me say again; for example 13.3″ 900p or 1080p panels cost just $50-100 more as replacement parts for consumers (much less more for manufacturers) than the 13.3″ 768p panels they are using now. The point was, when this price difference is so little, why aren’t higher resolution screens more common in midrange note/ultrabooks.
Also, you said “Larger screens cost more, they’re priced by surface area” and “lower pixel density screen will of course be cheaper to make per size than a higher pixel density screen”, so you see: a few inches larger but lower in pixel density screens should be about the same price to manufacture, this is why i made the laptop and tablet comparison in the first message.
I miss the Lenovo U-series Laptops. If i’m not mistaken, some of those have two hard drive spaces inside, so I’m definitely interested in getting one.
will they propose a 14″ version ?