Luis Hernandez is the vice president, ThinkPad Edge Business Unit, for Lenovo. As the dust settles from yet another busy CES, it’s is only fitting we take time to reflect on what we learned from the largest ever consumer electronics show – this year’s had more than 150,000(!) attendees from around the world – all making the pilgrimage to Las Vegas. From a business perspective, we had a great show. We saw lots of excitement around our ultrabooks, new AIO and personal cloud strategy - which is all about integrating content across devices, whether it’s a PC, tablet, smart TV or smartphone. We felt beyond honored to receive 19 great awards, and we certainly didn’t mind seeing IDC’s latest report on our market share climb to 14.0 percent and 37% growth this past quarter. But what I, and I think I speak for many of us here at Lenovo, found most gratifying about CES is that Lenovo absolutely thrived at a show that is entirely dedicated to the consumer – not businesses. I’ve been thinking about that over the past few days. First and foremost, we are a company comprised of tens of thousands of consumers. Granted, some may have a few more engineering degrees than most consumers, but nevertheless we have the same demands for technology that you do: we expect reliability, cutting-edge features and a dash of style. It’s the consumer in each of us at Lenovo that translates into products that shine at CES....
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Luis Hernandez is the vice president, ThinkPad Edge Business Unit, for Lenovo. The annual Mecca of gadgets, computers and more – the International Consumer Electronics Show will commence on Tuesday, January 10, but Ultrabooks and Hybrid computing devices are already at the forefront of tech trend conversations. Twitter is all a-Twitter with predictions and leaked announcements of a number of products in these categories. Kicking off a smorgasbord of major product announcements during CES 2012, we officially released our first business Ultrabook, the ThinkPad T430u and the ThinkPad X1 Hybrid laptop, fulfilling a burning desire by business professionals for sleek, stylish PCs that kick power performance butt. Who says all work can’t include some play – especially when it comes to aesthetics and multimedia capabilities. It’s been said so many times already in the latest headlines of CNN, Forbes, Scientific American and more, 2012 will be the year of the Ultrabook. This new product niche represents what we think of as 'Laptop 2.0' - the laptop computer re-conceptualized in nearly every facet of design. Lighter and thinner than a traditional laptop, with super fast boot up times and instant on functionality – the Ultrabook lets users do what tablets don’t, consume and create content, albeit not to the same degree as traditional laptops – but in the most impressive and mobile possible form factor. Ultrabook for...
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