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1. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

   Tuesday, 15 September 2009

   ... addition Lenovo has announced what may be the perfect student laptop or close to it in its X200 we’ll close with why that is.  First to HP. Netbooks HP has the broadest line of Netbook products two ...

2. Lenovo touts multitouch screen technology

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Tuesday, 15 September 2009

   Lenovo has introduced the ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC and ThinkPad T400s laptop. Both portable devices feature multitouch screen technology - along with SimpleTap - an application designed to simplify interaction ...

3. Lenovo appears to recall Thinkpad batteries again

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 13 August 2009

   Reports are surfacing in Taiwan claiming that Lenovo has had to recall battery packs used in some of its ThinkPad R60, R61, T60, T61, X60 and X61 notebooks.Reports are surfacing in Taiwan claiming that ...

4. Lenovo turns in a loss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 05 August 2009

   Lack of demand for personal computers meant Lenovo turned in a first quarter net loss of $16.01 million compared to a profit of $110.5 million in the same period a year before.Lack of demand for personal ...

5. Dozens of companies sued over packet radio patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 08 July 2009

   ... MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air as well as the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S machines. D-Link is alleged to use the 497 patent in a number of bridges and routers, while Lenovo has used the 497 patent in ThinkPads ...

6. Lenovo’s Thinkpads are now officially tough, sorta

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 24 February 2009

   ... but are not especially compact and easy on the eyes. Lenovo (and IBM before) has put distinct focus on the durable design of Thinkpads and now said that the military “baked, battered, blistered and ...

7. Lenovo notebooks sync with Blackberrys in sleep mode

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Tuesday, 17 February 2009

   A Lenovo Constant Connect accessory card revealed today will allow Lenovo notebooks to maintain sync to Blackberrys, allowing updated emails through the owner's Blackberry, even when they're in "sleep ...

8. Lenovo announces dual-screen Thinkpad

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sunday, 04 January 2009

     Lenovo today announced the world’s first dual-screen notebook, which may give the idea of a mobile workstation or business desktop replacement notebook new meaning. The Thinkpad W700ds adds a ...

9. Dell pitches MacBook Air rival, Sony enters netbook market

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Wednesday, 24 December 2008

   ... vendors have notebooks that try to compete with MacBook Air on thinness and lightness, like HP's Voodoo Envy 133 and Lenovo's ThinkPad X300. However, the MacBook Air has remained the defining comprehensive ...

10. Lenovo kills notebooks with a text message

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 25 November 2008

    ... are now seeing innovative solution to protect users and corporations from data theft almost on a weekly basis. One of the most interesting and potentially most effective solutions was announced by Lenovo ...

11. WiMax notebooks now available

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 08 October 2008

    ... with Intel’s WiMax chip. Lenovo are Acer are the first notebook manufacturers to offer “4G” wireless broadband for a technology that is still somewhat blurry in terms of how its availability will expand ...

12. Apple preps Macbook upgrades and a mysterious "Brick"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    ... only within Apple’s own notebook line, but also in comparison to Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300, which has been refreshed already. Expect Apple to upgrade the Air with a new thin 120 GB HDD from Toshiba (up ...

13. Why the SSD will kill the HDD

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 11 September 2008

    ... models, such as Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300, growth takes time. On the CTO side, educated consumers are leading the way for the SSD. Broad market acceptance is usually tied to a phase when a technology enters ...

14. Lenovo takes another shot at the MacBook Air

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 18 August 2008

      Lenovo announced a successor for the ultra-thin X300, promising 20% more performance, more memory, a new 128 GB SDD drive option and DisplayPort support. With its upgraded hardware, the ThinkPad ...

15. Lenovo fires up 17” mobile workstation

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 12 August 2008

      A new 17” mobile workstation will join Lenovo’s Thinkpad family in September: The W700 is Lenovo’s first 17” workstation notebook, the first with a palm rest digitizer and one of the first notebooks ...

16. Lenovo joins the $399 notebook party

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 04 August 2008

      IBM’s former notebooks division, now part of Lenovo, appears to be moving much faster these days. The company today announced a $399 notebook netbook under its Ideapad brand (Thinkpad=business, Ideapad=consumer) ...

17. Lenovo’s aims guns at Macbook Air, launches ThinkPad X200

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 17 July 2008

      Have you been wanting to buy a light and thin laptop, but just didn’t have enough cash for the MacBook Air?  Well Lenovo has just announced its Thinkpad X200 that rivals its Apple competitor, ...

18. Apple prices Macbook Air against Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 07 July 2008

    ...  The price drop of the Macbook Air puts the notebook squarely against Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300, whose price was recently dropped by about $650 and is offered in a comparable configuration for about $2630. ...

19. Lenovo intros stylish desktop PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 30 June 2008

      Lenovo announced its first serious attempt to break into the consumer desktop PC market outside of China. And the result may look surprising to some: There is no cheap design here, the former ...

20. Dell Studio notebooks: What color would you like?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 26 June 2008

    ... Air and Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300 and pretty much every large manufacturer tries to attract consumers with unique design elements and flashy colors. Dell was among the first to shape this trend last year ...

21. Toshiba unveils SSD notebook (with an acceptable price tag)

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 June 2008

    ... (a $700 option), Apple asks for its admittedly more stylish MacBook Air with a 64 GB SSD $3100 and Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300 will cost at least $2850 with a 64 GB SSD.  Besides the big standard SSD, ...

22. IdeaPad U100 – Lenovo’s best idea yet?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 29 April 2008

      Lenovo today introduced the IdeaPad U110, an ultra-portable notebook that isn’t cheap and doesn’t offer any spectacular hardware features, but is certainly among the most attractive notebooks ...

23. Toshiba joins the ‘stunning’ notebook crowd

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

      Ok, we got it: Stylish and especially ‘stunning’ notebooks are the trend in the notebook industry this year. Following the MacBook Air, the Lenovo Thinkpad X300 and Acer’s Gemstone notebooks, ...

24. The HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + The MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Friday, 21 March 2008

      As some of you know, I actually like the Macbook Air but found the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 to be a vastly more useful product in the class.   I’m one of the few folks that have been using ...

25. Lenovo releases super-thin Thinkpad X300

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 26 February 2008

    Lenovo today officially unveiled its Macbook Air killer – not quite as extreme as the Apple notebook, but with more configuration options and, depending on your view, for less money. Research Triangle ...

26. Has Lenovo created the “perfect” laptop?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Friday, 22 February 2008

    Analyst Opinion - Apple’s MacBook Air may be the coolest notebook to have these days, but early reviews revealed some downsides many of us may not want to live with. That may be different with Lenovo’s ...

27. Linux returns to Thinkpads

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 15 January 2008

    Lenovo kept its promise from last August and has opened the ordering process for Thinkpad notebooks that come preloaded with Suse’s Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED). San Francisco (CA) – Lenovo ...

28. Rob Enderle: 2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 28 December 2007

    ... too. :)  Thank you. ---------- Analysis:  2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux by Rob Enderle Introduction Looking ahead to 2008 we are in for one amazing ...

29. Thinkpad turns 15, gets a $5000 "Reserve Edition"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 05 September 2007

    If you are planning on spending $5000 for a notebook, there's a good chance that you are looking for a gaming system and you probably will not be checking what Lenovo is offering. But if you have ...

30. Lenovo to offer Suse Linux for its Thinkpad

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 06 August 2007

    Lenovo said that it will be offering its Thinkpad notebooks with Linux as well related support for the operating system. San Francisco (CA) – Lenovo said that it will be offering its Thinkpad notebooks ...

31. Lenovo to pre-load Windows Live services on new PCs and ThinkPads

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 14 March 2007

    Lenovo has agreed to pre-load Windows Live services onto ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre desktops and Lenovo-branded PCs. Culver City (CA) - Lenovo has agreed to pre-load Windows Live services onto ThinkPad ...

32. Lenovo recalls 205,000 laptop batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 01 March 2007

    Though it's not on the scale of last year's Sony recall, Lenovo is forced to recall notebook batteries because of of an overheating problem. Research Triangle Park (NC) - Though it's not on ...

33. Lenovo adds widescreen models to T-series Thinkpads

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 28 November 2006

    Following the widescreen trend, Lenovo today announced its second Thinkpad model that is now available with a 15.4" widescreen LCD: T60 widescreen models are selling for $1400 and up. Research Triangle ...

34. Lenovo tablet PC automatically turns screen

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 14 November 2006

    Lenovo today announced a new feature in an updates series of its Thinkpad X60 tablet PC. Lenovo today announced a new feature in an updates series of its Thinkpad X60 tablet PC. The devices are equipped ...

35. Gateway recalls 35,000 Sony batteries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 23 October 2006

    ... manufacturer that has been forced to recall the batteries: In recent weeks, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recalled more than 7.5 million notebooks. Sony estimates that the ...

36. Battery recall estimated to cost Sony at least $430 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 October 2006

    ... months ago, now includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Sony. Correlatively, Sony today also announced changes to its earnings forecast for the rest of the year. It was obvious ...

37. Lenovo offers biometrically protected hard drives

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 16 October 2006

    Lenovo is partnering with Utimaco to offer new ThinkPad notebooks with biometrically secured hard drives. Utimaco has integrated their SafeGuard Easy 4.3 program which will encrypt all the entire hard ...

38. Fujitsu adds to Sony battery recall count

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 04 October 2006

    ... laptops. Apple, Lenovo, IBM, and Toshiba have also announced large-scale recalls of their notebook computers. Problems that have occured as a result of the affected computers range from minimal overheating ...

39. Dell recalls another 100,000 notebook batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 29 September 2006

    ... by Sony, including XPS M1710 Apple recalls Macbook Pro batteries Toshiba recalls 340,000 notebook batteries Lenovo, IBM recall 526,000 Thinkpad batteries  ...

40. Lenovo, IBM recall 526,000 Thinkpad batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 28 September 2006

    Lenovo, IBM and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission today issued a recall for 526,000 Sony batteries in Thinkpad notebook computers. The recall comes after reports that a Lenovo system had caught ...

41. Is Intel back and do they love Apple? You betcha!

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 27 September 2006

    ... important one at that. It felt like, somehow, Apple had pulled Intel all the way into their camp. That is an incredibly amazing thing to see happen. I'm still a little dazzled. Finally, given Lenovo was ...

42. Lenovo intros Thinkpad notebook with HSDPA wireless broadband

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 22 August 2006

    Lenovo today added to its existing line of EVDO wireless broadband-capable notebooks two Thinkpad T60 models that can be ordered with built-in support for Cingular's UMTS/HSDPA network. Lenovo today ...

43. Lenovo rolls out Linux Thinkpad

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 15 August 2006

    Lenovo continues to transform IBM's former PC division and adjust the characteristics that determine the look and feel of the computers. After adopting AMD processors in certain models, Lenovo now also ...

44. Lenovo cuts ThinkPad prices by up to 33%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 25 July 2006

      Lenovo recently lowered the price of its ThinkPad notebook series in the US, with its X60 model being slashed by 33%, according to the Chinese-language website Sina.com. Lenovo recently lowered ...

45. Lenovo to end partnership with Quanta for Thinkpad production

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 28 June 2006

      Lenovo will end its partnership with Quanta Computer next year after taking its final delivery of Thinkpad Z60 shipments from the notebook maker at the end of this year, according to industry sources. ...

46. Lenovo updates widescreen Thinkpad notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 16 May 2006

    Lenovo today announced a new version of its widescreen Z-series Thinkpad notebook. The new systems - named Z61m and Z61t - will be positioned as new flagship notebooks and integrate Intel's dual-core ...

47. Dell loses market share to HP, says IDC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 20 April 2006

    ... though not as badly as Dell - is Lenovo, which carries on the ThinkPad tradition started by IBM. Now that Lenovo's numbers have normalized following its takeover of the ThinkPad brand, its growth numbers ...

48. Toshiba and Lenovo increase presence in retail stores

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 April 2006

    ... than comparable tablet PCs currently offered on Toshiba's website. Also, Lenovo announced to make Thinkpad notebooks available at BestBuy. Chicago (IL) - Toshiba today announced a new tablet PC that ...

49. Lenovo laptop deal draws scrutiny from government agency

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 28 March 2006

      Last year IBM sold its PC manufacturing division to the Chinese computer maker Lenovo in a nearly US$2 billion deal. Despite that, ThinkPads are still arguably the most-coveted x86 laptop with the ...

50. Lenovo launches $1000 dual-core notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 March 2006

    Lenovo today announced its second own-branded notebook series. Following the entry-level C100 devices are widescreen N100 models, which can be equipped with single and dual-core processors. Raleigh ...