Lenovo’s ThinkPad line has always had a reputation for business-class durability, and the X series has added small size and light weight to it. The latest in the X2xx series is the X230, the upgrade to to last year’s 12.5-inch X220 model. It brings with it some small but significant changes to the chassis as well as more options on the processor front, which we’ll dive into in our upcoming review. For now, we’ll focus on the outward changes to this most favored road warrior model.
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Lenovo launches USB 3.0 dock
Space is a premium commodity on ultrabooks and thin-and-lights, so OEMs need to cut out ports where necessary to get the chassis as thin as possible. Sony has its own solution in the Power Media Dock, plugging into the VAIO Z in order to provide additional ports and a discrete GPU. Now Lenovo has a similar solution, serving as USB 3.0 hub and port replicator.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook revealed
The next level powerhouse in workhorse Ultrabook has been revealed by Lenovo as being the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, complete with the claim that it is indeed “the world’s lightest 14-inch professional Ultrabook.” This Ultrabook “exceeds Ultrabook specifications” as Lenovo says with its premium Carbon Fiber roll cage enclosure and full package weighing in at 3 pounds. This notebook has a 14-inch display which works with Vibrant Hi-Resolution technology, it being 1600 x 900 pixel resolution with a thin bezel and 300 nit brightness. The keyboard is Lenovo’s latest setup with backlighting as well, so get prepped for a premium experience.
Lenovo ThinkPad laptops T, X, L, W series grab Ivy Bridge
It's time for the 3rd Generation Intel Core update to Lenovo's line of ThinkPad laptops including their T, X, L, and W series, these including software updates as well. What we're dealing with here in this update is a series of upgrades for each of the unique series with one common strain between the lot of them: Intel's Ivy Bridge processors bumping them all up to ultra powerful. Have a peek at how Lenovo is bringing the heat across the board with their ThinkPad series all across the board.
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p and M72e tiny desktops revealed
Lenovo has outed a pair of diminutive desktops, the ThinkCentre M92p and M72e tiny, along with a new LCD display that has been specially tuned to deliver perfect VoIP and video conferencing results. The M92p and M72e tiny pack a choice of Intel 3rd Gen Core Ivy Bridge processors in a form-factor that's as small as 3-inches thick, with integrated graphics and WiFi.
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Lenovo ThinkCentre all-in-ones add Ivy Bridge
Lenovo has a trio of new ThinkCentre all-in-ones for your delectation, the Edge , M92z, 92z and 72, available in 20-, 21.5- and 23-inch sizes and packing Intel’s 3rd-Gen Ivy Bridge processors. The Edge M92z is perhaps the slickest of the bunch, fronted with an optional 10-point multitouch display and support for WiDi for wirelessly hooking up a second screen, and with up to 1TB of storage, SSD options and the choice of adding in a 1GB AMD Radeon video card on the 23-inch model (though not on the 20-incher).
Lenovo Smart TV gets first review
This time last month Lenovo was taking pre-orders for its K71 Smart TV for release in China, and now the first review is in. The all-round specs are impressive: a 42/55-inch 1080p IPS 120Hz panel is combined with a dual-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon processor, five megapixel webcam, 6GB of local storage, and Ice Cream Sandwich. The usual array of TV connections can be found too, with four HDMI ports, two USB ports, and Ethernet.
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Lenovo pumps $800m into ambitious mobile scheme
Lenovo will pump around $800m into a new mobile-focused facility tasked with investigating and producing innovative smartphones, tablets and other devices, the Chinese company has confirmed. The new plant, located in Wuhan in China, will concentrate "on the R&D, production and sales of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices that will cover the Chinese and global markets" Lenovo says, targeting $1.59bn in sales revenue by 2014 and five times that within the next five years.
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iPad hits 68% share
There's no denying that Apple's version of what everyone else in the world calls a tablet has been one of the greatest successes in gadget history, the iPad today being shown by IDC as having a 68% share in the market for tablets and tablet-like devices. The IDC group shows the Apple worldwide tablet market share increasing on the whole from 54.7 percent in the holiday quarter at the end of 2011. These numbers have been shown to be sucking the blood of the Amazon Kindle fire market, it falling steeply from a 16.8 percent share in the fourth quarter of last year to a rather scary 4 percent here in the first quarter of 2012.
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Lenovo Ivy Bridge ThinkPad pic leaks
We've been expecting a lot out of Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors. The parts are starting to show up in computers that should be hitting the market soon. Lenovo will be offering notebook computers using the Ivy Bridge processor and the photograph of one of those new notebooks has turned up online. Lenovo has an altered book and the tablet coming up that will be using Ivy Bridge.
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Lenovo A720 brings Ivy Bridge to touch
Today is going to be a flood of Ivy Bridge-toting computers of all shapes and sizes, I can tell you that now, and Lenovo's massive touch-screen A720 is not the least of the super powerful! We've had our hands on this beast just this spring at CES 2012 and it's certainly set to impress. Will the 3rd Generation Intel Core processors bring this computer to the forefront of the futuristic Windows 8 market?
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Lenovo roadmap leaks Ivy Bridge laptops on June 5
Although Intel hasn't announced yet when exactly it's next-gen 22nm Ivy Bridge-based processors will be hitting the market, rumors suggest the release is just around the corner. Now a leaked Lenovo product roadmap further pinpoints that the laptop implementation called Chief River will be available by at least June 5, when Lenovo is expecting to see its first Ivy Bridge laptops go on sale.
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