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The ThinkPad That Never Runs Out Of Battery

7:20AM Joanna Stern | Or gets a blue screen of death. Or has a trackpoint that gets dirty and worn down. Nope, the precursor to the original IBM ThinkPad was just a pad, with the word “Think” imprinted on its leather cover. More »
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Lenovo Installs Adware With Latest Automatic Update

10:30AM Don Nguyen | A recent automatic update from Lenovo contains adware that subjects users to irremovable pop-up ads that advertise various accessories contained in the Lenovo website. More »
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You Can Run Over A Lenovo ThinkPad T400s With A 11,750Kg Truck

1:30PM Adrian Covert | I mean, I don’t really see why you’d want to run over a non-rugged, Lenovo T400s laptop with a large truck. But as I was told many times as a kid, it’s a free country. Anyways, the spinnerific HDD survived. More »
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Lenovo ThinkPads Officially Semi-Rugged Certified to Withstand Ass-Beatings, Mr. Freeze

11:20AM Matt Buchanan | Good news if you own a ThinkPad X200, X300 or T400 or a few other Lenovo laptops: You actually got a mil-spec semi-ruggedised computer and didn’t even know it! More »
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Dell Mini 9 Has a More Pro Screen Than MacBook Pro

4:40AM Matt Buchanan | Rob Galbraith checks out the screens on the three hottest notebooks in their respective classes from a pro photographer’s standpoint—new MacBook Pro, Dell Mini 9 and Lenovo W700—and how they stack up will surprise you More »
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Crazy IBM ThinkPad W700 Has Integrated Secondary Display

8:56AM Jesus Diaz | The new IBM ThinkPad W700 has an integrated secondary display. Foldable, 10.6 inches of it, with 768 x 1280 pixels and LED backlight. Colour us impressed. The amazing feature list doesn’t stop there. More »
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Lenovo ThinkPad X200t Photographed in the Wild

4:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | The tablet version of Lenovo’s ThinkPad X200 laptop, sensibly named the X200t, was photographed in the wild, looking pretty much like an X200 with a swiveling screen. (That means it’s also awfully similar to Lenovo’s last tablet, the X61t.) Tablets don’t really rock our world, but the X200’s form factor and build quality should mean the X200t is also a solid machine. [GottaBeMobile via Engadget] More »
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Lenovo ThinkPad W700 Has a BUILT-IN Wacom Tablet and Professional Grade Screen

2:01PM Adrian Covert | Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700 is a 17-inch behemoth that’s the first notebook ever with a built-in Wacom digitiser. Designed for professional use in industries such as graphic design, photography and CAD, the digital tablet lets you manipulate images in programs like Photoshop without any extra gear. In addition, the 3.6kg notebook features a professional grade, WUXGA screen with 400 nit brightness (it’s actually stunning) and an auto colour-calibration sensor that lets you adjust display settings on the fly. Except for the fact it runs Vista, it’s like the perfect pro photographer’s workstation. galleryPost('lenovow700', 3, ''); More »
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Lightning Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X200

4:00AM Matt Buchanan | The Gadget: Lenovo’s ThinkPad X200, the leeettlest member of their revamped X notebooks, with Intel’s recently released Centrino 2 inside. More »
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ThinkPad X200 Tablet Revealed in Spec Sheet

5:39AM Matt Buchanan | Well, look at what’s hiding out in the spec sheet for the X200 UltraBase docking station: a listing for a ThinkPad X200 tablet. The X200 is a perfect size for a tablet, and it’d solve our slight anxiety over just having the nub as an input. If it had some capacitive multi-touch like Dell’s Latitude XT in addition to being bulletproof like ThinkPads ought to be, consider us sold (if it’s not, you know, some insane price). [UltraBase Spec Sheet (PDF) via Engadget] More »