Rumor: Lenovo leaks new ThinkPad’s, some to accompany X300
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
One of the more, innovative laptops in recent days, the Lenovo X300 is about to get some company with the new ThinkPad line-up. By September, we should be seeing the X200, X400, and the X500, all to accompany the popular X300. Now, all three of these laptops will feature HSDPA and EVDO, sport a 25% better battery life and 6MB L2 cache, all guaranteed to please just about everyone. The differences between these new laptops is that the X200 will be sporting a 12-inch screen, the X400 has a 14.1-inch screen and the X500 has a 15.4-inch screen.
Next, we have the Lenovo R-Series, which doesn’t seem to come with a whole lot details, but will be your basic Lenovo laptops. The 2 models of the R-Series that we know of so far are the R400 and the R500. They weigh 5.1 pounds and 6.4 pounds, respectively. These new laptops are slated to be on sale sometime in July of 2008, and no word on pricing.
Moving on, Lenovo will also be adding more laptops to the T-Series. These laptops are a little more advanced than the R-Series, but still not the best Lenovo has to offer. They sport 256 or 512MB of ATI HD3650 graphics, and the cool thing here is that they can be turned off, especially if you want to conserve battery life. Not much other information on the laptops, however, we do know that the T400 weighs 4.3 pounds and the T500 weighs 5.8 pounds. Word is that these laptops will be available in June 2008, and again, no word on pricing.
Furthermore, we have the totally new W-Series from Lenovo, which features some pretty nice laptops, and instead of the “w” standing for widescreen, it now stands for workstation replacement, which tells you something that Lenovo is refraining from just making widescreen laptops. The new W900 sports a 15-inch screen and comes with the aforementioned graphics of the T-Series. There are also reports indicating they are working on making a 17-inch model which should be available later on.
There is also a number of things in which almost all of these laptops have in common. Beginning with 6MB of L2 cache, optional Turbo Memory up to 2GB, optional Blu-Ray drive, 2 PCI express slots, 1.6GHz DDR3 RAM, all but the R-Series comes with LED Backlighting, HSDPA and EVDO, 9 cell batteries with the 25% more battery life, GPS, WiMAX, wireless USB (not available in all laptops), and solid state hard drive - not for the W-Series.
Lenovo has a good plan and they are going to start manufacturing all of these laptops in May, so there will be plenty available for their slotted shipping dates. All in all, I think that with all these new laptops, Lenovo will get a lot more popular in the laptop sales department. Especially, with the X300 getting their name known, these laptops will probably sell nicely.
Via [Gizmodo]
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