Let’s shove humility aside for a moment, shall we? Lenovo has unveiled a remarkable new laptop called ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Its claim to fame? It is the world’s thinnest and lightest 14” Ultrabook laptop. Its introduction was something of a surprise—the proper PR-style announcement will have to wait—so more details are yet to come. Here’s what we can share so far about this breakthrough product that could well shatter the mold of traditional business laptops. It’s light. ThinkPad X1 Carbon only weighs about 3 pounds and lives up to its rep as the thinnest, lightest 14" Ultrabook in the world. It’s tough. It’s made from the same ridiculously strong carbon fiber they use in the automotive industry. This material adds structural strength and durability to the laptop while minimizing its weight. It’s connected. X1 Carbon has embedded 3G connectivity. Unlike with most other Ultrabooks, you can connect anytime anywhere with a mobile broadband pay-as-you-go option. It’s super-charged. This Ultrabook has Lenovo RapidCharge, meaning your battery can go from 0 to 80% strength in just 35 minutes. ThinkPad X1 Carbon is expected to go on sale in August. You can learn more here. Gavin O’Hara is Global Publisher for Lenovo Social Media.
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Lenovo Enhanced Experience 3 PCs Start 40% Faster With RapidBoot Technology
With the recent announcement of the Lenovo Enhanced Experience 3, it’s a great time for me to provide some additional information – to expand upon the news with background, a little more detail, and (hopefully) interesting tidbits from a behind-the-scenes perspective. EE3 was heavily influenced by the success of EE2 and all the feedback we received after its release. We demonstrated our ability to shatter boot expectations and our ecosystem testing showed Lenovo PCs were, on average, the fastest available. The most common responses were “that’s great but…” 1) What about modestly configured systems (i.e. non-SSD)? or 2) What happens in a few months after I’ve used it, won’t it slow down? We took this feedback and made sure to focus on addressing it in order to better satisfy our customers. This meant ensuring that any improvements would span across the breadth of our product portfolio, especially rotational HDD-only PCs (still the largest volume configuration), and continue to work – even thrive – over time. RapidBoot in EE3 exists as two sub-technologies: 1) ...
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ThinkPad Tablet
It’s dessert time for Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet. The Android 4.0 operating system—commonly known by its more delicious codename of Ice Cream Sandwich—will be available on our ThinkPad Tablet in May. It will be delivered as an over-the-air update There’s been a lot of fuss about Ice Cream Sandwich in the marketplace, and for good reason. Here are three things we love about it, things you’ll be able to take advantage of on your ThinkPad Tablet when the update comes: A new and improved browser with a significant speed boost that allows you to jump to your favorite content faster and even save it for later in case there's no network available. Voice input that allows you to dictate text. As the voice input engine enters text, it underlines possible dictation errors in gray. After dictating, you tap underlined words to quickly replace them from a list of suggestions. Face Unlock, a new screen-lock option that lets you unlock your device with your face. (Love that.) It takes advantage of the devices’ front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face during setup and then recognize it again when it’s time to unlock. While this announcement strictly refers to the ThinkPad Tablet, it’s worth noting that we are committed to...
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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...
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Ken Timmons works in ThinkServer marketing at Lenovo, but 30 years ago, he was one of the engineers on the original IBM PC. Thirty years ago today that PC made its way onto the world computing stage. Since then, it's made a large impact on the industry and influenced modern computing. A once in a lifetime experience! That’s how I’d sum up the opportunity I had 30 years ago to join the team that created the first IBM Personal Computer – the 5150. I was a young engineer with IBM less than a year out of college, when I was offered the job. At this stage in most people’s life, your vision of the future is somewhat vague. Who could have foreseen an opportunity to participate in the birth of an industry! The early days of the personal computer were a heady time. We felt there wasn’t anything we couldn’t accomplish. I remember a camaraderie that was somewhat unique in my 30+ years of work experience, and I still count many of those colleagues as my closest friends. My role on the team was to help design the functional test equipment that would be used to guarantee the computer worked before we shipped it to the customer. This test equipment was built with a lot of the same technology as the PC, and we were learning as we went just like the rest of the team. Sure, there were...
