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Continuing Lenovo’s CES range, the Chinese laptop maker outed a new ThinkPad Edge range that comes in 13-,14-,15-inch sizes. This too, goes for the SMB crowd due to its affordable price tag and decent features to get the work done. The Edge’s 13-inch model is the first notebook from Lenovo to offer dual core AMD [...]

For classic ThinkPad lovers, Lenovo has got four new notebooks on offer. From mobility to decent to high performance, Lenovo has covered it all. The 14-incher T410s comes with Core i5 CPU, HDD or SSD storage, Windows 7, Nvidia switchable graphics, up to 8GB RAM, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, multi-touch trackpad, 3G, DisplayPort, eSATA port and more. [...]

 
Lenovo has launched its first 11.6-inch ultraportable notebook targeted at small and medium businesses. Hailing from the X Series, ThinkPad X100e is touted as one of the thinnest and lightest laptops carrying an affordable $449 starting price.
The X100e will come in options of AMD CULV processors, starting with Neo MV-40/M780G while Turion and other [...]

 
So what do you do when you’ve to show your laptop as one of the toughest from the competition? Transform them into bus seats, of course. Lenovo and its creative agency in Germany thought of this unconventional idea to attract sales dialogues by highlighting the rugged feature of ThinkPad notebooks. Needless to say, this caught [...]

 
Lenovo had confirmed their interest in churning out ThinkPad netbooks for business users and it seems the first netbook has come to life, courtesy a leak at a Chinese website. Though new details are still hard to come by, the netbook is supposedly known as X200e and will feature few cosmetic changes. With the recent [...]

 
Lenovo US has announced couple of new laptops for business users loaded with Windows 7. The notebooks, SL410 and SL510 are specifically targeted towards SMBs with its affordable starting price and decent feature set.
Both the notebooks come with options of Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs, 16:9 high definition screen with a provision to attach [...]

 
UPDATE: Lenovo contacted to let us know that this isn’t a recall but a measure to ensure complete customer satisfaction. “Lenovo has not had a battery recall. This is a service extension program to provide (bonus 12-month) coverage above and beyond the normal warranty to ensure complete customer satisfaction. Service and warranty upgrades and special [...]

 
Lenovo is trying to build the hype around its T400s ThinkPad notebook. After showing the notebook doing the tornado chasing and getting run over by a heavy duty vehicle, the new video is more subtle and explains the few simple yet important design changes. David Hill, designer for Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks speaks about T400s’ larger [...]

 
Lenovo has got as many as 17 notebooks to be launched by the end of the next year. Engadget China got hold of a roadmap slide that reveals interesting tidbits, including the notebooks powered by Intel’s Calpella platform. According to the roadmap, Lenovo will have a Calpella model for every notebook launched in this year [...]

 
Lenovo’s dual way Blackberry email synchronization tool, Constant Connect card is now available with Lenovo’s business partners and on their website. For those who are wondering what’s the big deal, this card allows emails from a Blackberry device to be synced onto the card via Bluetooth and when a user inserts it into his ThinkPad, [...]

 
Lenovo currently sells netbooks under the IdeaPad line. However, a Lenovo executive has confirmed that they are looking to reach suit clad consumers in the coming months. Lenovo will be offering a ThinkPad branded netbook to businesses while the IdeaPad netbooks will focus on average consumers. The details on the netbook is scarce at the [...]

 
Lenovo and Blackberry maker revealed a nifty solution for people using Blackberry device and Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. Called as Constant Connect, it is a card that can be inserted in the laptop that automatically synchronizes all the e-mails from Blackberry to the PC via Bluetooth.
The functioning of the card is pretty simple. As it [...]

 
Dell didn’t seem to like it when HP’s Fred Bullock compared the excellent battery life of its Elitebook 6930p with a Dell laptop. Apparently in a bid to prove themselves, Dell put its Latitude E6400, HP Elitebook 6930p and Lenovo ThinkPad T400 to test.
Dell hired Principled Technologies to commission the study and used MobileMark [...]

 
Lenovo’s first dual screen laptop, ThinkPad W700ds is on sale now. Its pricing starts from $3,663, keeping most of the wannabes away from this expensive offering. A quick run through the specs say that W700ds’s 17-inch screen is the brightest of the lot at 400-nits and also features 72% color gamut for greater color intensity. [...]

 
The upcoming CES will be a special one for Lenovo because they are going to show off first-of-its-kind laptop that sports dual LCD. It is the same 17-inch ThinkPad W700 that was launched in August, but this time the main screen hides a small 10.6-inch screen behind it.
The W700ds, as they call it, features [...]