Though it won’t be officially introduced until tomorrow, Lenovo will be announcing their IdeaPad S10-2 netbook and it’s got a thinner form factor than the previous IdeaPad S10. Plus, the body weighs less and you’ll have the option to choose from four different colors.
Lenovo’s Matt Kohut has been fleshing out the company’s vision of netbooks over the next five years, and the worldwide competitive analyst isn’t shy of a strong opinion. Key themes mentioned are nothing new but generally welcome: Windows 7, touch and multitouch, integrated WWAN connectivity and lower prices.
Lenovo are preparing to release their second-generation netbook, the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2, which will include integrated 3G but lose the ExpressCard slot that helped differentiate its predecessor. According to the IdeaPad S10-2’s user manual, which was prematurely posted to the company’s support site, the netbook will still use Intel’s Atom processor.
Lenovo Canada are offering ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC buyers a newly-expanded range of processor options, more than twice as many as US buyers can configure their touchscreen ultraportables with. The Canadian X200 gets not only a choice of the original SU9300 1.20GHz and SL9400 1.86GHz CPUs as the US model, but up to a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo SL9600 low-voltage chip.
According to a leak, Lenovo is apparently working on a new ThinkPad X200 that features a CULV processor. While this rumor is not confirmed, it would make sense since Lenovo has themselves admitted they are thinking about creating a CULV ThinkPad in the future, though they did not commit to a timeframe.
The ThinkPad X200 models currently feature a SL-series Core 2 Duo processor. This has made the price go up considerably, but with a 1.2GHz Celeron M chip, the cost would decrease, as would the voltage use. The new system would also have a 160GB hard drive and 2GB of memory.
Pricing is not known, nor is a release date. It may not even come to pass. We’ll just have to wait and see. But it would make sense in this economy for Lenovo to be looking to drop their price point a bit.
Lenovo’s existing IdeaPad netbooks are sturdy, safe choices in the segment, but they could soon gain a ThinkPad-branded sibling. Likely targeted more at business use, compared to the consumer-focused IdeaPad line, the ThinkPad netbook is not yet confirmed, but according to Lenovo’s Worldwide Competitive Analyst Matthew Kohut, “it’s an area [Lenovo are] exploring.”
After the cut, why Atom may not be the CPU for the new ThinkPad netbook
We can’t get enough of the MSI X-Slim X340 ultraportable here at SlashGear, and after catching up with MSI themselves at CTIA this week this is one notebook we’re really looking forward to trying out. You can see our video demo of the X340 here, but if you’re wondering just how thin the latest X-Slim is, NewGadgets’ photoshoot should prove educational.
The Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one desktop PC is now available to order, offering a 21.5-inch 1920 x 1080 16:9 HD-display, slot-loading DVD or Blu-Ray drive and a range of Intel Core 2 Duo processors. First announced back at CES 2009 in January, the IdeaCentre A600 is apparently the world’s slimmest all-in-one PC.
Lenovo have announced a pair of new workstations, the Lenovo ThinkStation D20 and S20, intended for CAD and digital content creation. The blocky towers are fitted with Intel Xeon 5500 and W3500 series processors with optional Turbo Boost, together with NVIDIA Quadro or ATI FirePro graphics. Buyers can also specify the NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU platform.
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