Straddling the divide between ultraportable and mainstream notebook, Lenovo’s ThinkPad T400s squeezes a business-friendly 14.1-inch LED-backlit display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor and integrated WWAN into a chassis just 0.83-inches thick. SlashGear had the opportunity for a pre-release hands-on; check out our first impressions after the cut, together with some preliminary T400s benchmarks.
We’ve been singularly cellularly obsessed here at SlashGear over the past seven days, and it’ll come as no surprise that the run-up to the iPhone 3G S has occupied much of our attention. The new Apple smartphone may not look much different to its predecessor, but if our hands-on first impressions are anything to go by, Cupertino have done their best to make the user-experience as polished as the casing. Still, it’s not just shiny Apple hardware that’s caught our eye this week; Novatel Wireless’ GSM MiFi 2352 piqued our interest when we talked to the company themselves on Monday, and then proceeded to impress us considerably in our full review.
Considering a new Lenovo ThinkPad in the next nine months? You’ll be interested in the latest leaked notebook roadmap from the company, then, which tips such delights as the Lenovo ThinkPad T400 – which we last saw being run over by a 26k pound truck – as dropping in mid-July, plus a storm of new Intel Calpella-based machines arriving in early 2010.
The latest batch of new laptop and ultraportable rumors are spilling out of the Far-East, tipping new touchscreen models running Windows 7 and at least one ultra-thin from LG. According to industry sources, HP, Acer and Lenovo have all placed orders with Taiwanese capacitive touchscreen manufacturer Cando; meanwhile MSI are said to be supplying LG with an ultra-thin notebook that will ship in the second half of 2009.
The first image and set of rumored specs for the ThinkPad T400s was leaked a few days ago. While Lenovo is still mum about the release date, price or specs come these two videos of the T400s. The first video demonstrates just how well built and tough this thing is. No worries, I won’t spoil the ending for you – just make sure to click on over to watch it get run over by a 26,000 pound DOW truck. The second video shows the T400s getting physically abused by the “tornado chasing” team members. It’s a crime treating such a great laptop this way!
We got a look at the latest Lenovo ThinkPad T400s today now that new images have leaked out. This new slim model is only 0.83-inches thick, bringing down the size considerably from the 1.12-inch thick original T400 model.
UPDATE: Lenovo ThinkPad T400s laptop review (SlashGear.com)
Lenovo have announced a trio of entry-level machines, in the shape of the IdeaCentre C300 all-in-one desktop (shown here), the IdeaPad U350 13.3-inch ultraportable and the G550 15.6-inch notebook. The patterned C300 packs a single-core Intel Atom 230 processor, integrated graphics and 20-inch 16:9 display; RAM is up to 2GB while storage is up to 640GB, and WiFi a/b/g is optional.
Lenovo have announced the IdeaPad S12, the first netbook to offer NVIDIA’s Ion GPU. A 12.1-inch model, the S12 pairs the 1080p-capable Ion chipset with an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and 160/250/320GB hard-drive options. As well as the usual VGA output, there’s also an HDMI port.
Video demos after the cut
More hands-on feedback regarding Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10-2 netbook today, and this time a video to go along with it. GottaBeMobile’s Xavier grabbed a demo with the S10-2 and, aside from the switch from a matte display to glossy, it’s more good news about the refreshed ultraportable.
Video demo of the S10-2 after the cut
We only heard official word of it yesterday, and the full announcement isn’t due until later today, but that hasn’t stopped LaptopMag from going hands-on with the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2. The netbook is, as the name suggests, an update to the original IdeaPad S10, with a newly rounded case design, 0.4lbs of weight shaved off and 0.1-inches of thickness. Unfortunately Lenovo have left the N270 Atom processor in place, rather than switch it out for the newer N280.
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