Tablets may be the next big thing in mobile computing, but don’t count out ultrabooks just yet. At least not until you’ve given Lenovo’s Thinkpad X1 Carbon — a featherweight, carbon fibre workhorse a closer look. It’s tough, it’s light, and you don’t have to be an office drone to crave it.
The model of rejecting refills is one that’s bought in big bucks for the printer industry; so much so that the most expensive fluid in the world is indeed printer ink. Is that a model that will translate to laptop batteries? Lenovo is apparently mulling the idea around.
Got one of Lenovo’s ThinkPad or IdeaPad tablets? Good news! You’re getting Ice Cream Sandwich. Bad news: You’ll be waiting a while.
Who pays RRP these days? Lenovo has a three-day sale on its ThinkPad laptops that ends today, offering between 10 and 30 per cent off the recommended retail price, depending on how much the laptop costs. Considering Lenovo make some of the best Windows notebooks on the market, it’s a great chance to grab a good deal on a new machine. [Lenovo via OzBargain]
That Lenovo K800 phone, just announced at Intel’s CES keynote and running off of the company’s 32-nanometre mobile 1.6GHz Medfield chip? It’s here. I played with it. It’s… OK?
It has a 27-inch screen, 10-finger capacitive multitouch, an aluminium body and a fully articulating screen that folds to your liking. If there was ever a touchscreen all-in-one that had all the elements to succeed, Lenovo’s A720 might be it.
So it looks like those rumours about touchscreen ultrabooks were true. Lenovo’s Yoga is the first such device of its kind (that being a Windows device), equipped with a multitouch panel capable of tracking 10 fingers. And though I’ve been dismissive of such devices, it wasn’t nearly the awful experience I thought it would be.
I just got some mitts-on time with Lenovo’s new notebook, the X1 Hybrid. What’s interesting about it is that it can boot into a battery-doubling, low-power mode that runs off a snapdragon processor and custom software based on a certain kernel we all know.
Asus aren’t the only ones who get to have transforming tablet fun. Lenovo just joined the party with their 10.1-inch, Ice Cream Sandwich-equipped IdeaPad S2, complete with all the versatility, speed and power you could ask for from a tablet, and then some.
Lenovo’s 55-inch first-generation Idea TV will make you wish you lived in China — because that’s the only country that’s going to see its smartly designed Android interface for now.
