A Lenovo Live update which provides Lenovo staff with the status status of existing products and the timeline of upcoming products was leaked. This month we should be seeing an update to the X1 notebook that is great but offers tragic battery life, the “…
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Ultrabook, MacBook Air, Pro Shipments May Be Affected By Chinese Plant Shutdown
One of the Chinese manufacturers, Charter, that produces metal laptop chassis for the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Ultrabooks, has been partially shut down due to foul odors being reported by residents living near the plant in Suzhou, China.
Some of Charter’s production lines have…
Amazon May Ship 5 Million Kindle Fire Tablets in Q4 2011
Reports looking at Amazon’s pre-order trends as well as trends in shipments for 7-inch tablet displays suggest that Amazon could ship 5 million Kindle Fire tablets before the end of this year.
An analyst report from Ashok Kumar originally stated that Amazon would ship around…
$199 Lenovo IdeaPad A1 Now Starts at $229
When we first reported on Lenovo’s IdeaPad A1, it was fairly big news because they were the first big-name manufacturer to offer an Android tablet under $200.
However, in the time it took them to finally release the IdeaPad A1, other companies, most notably Amazon,…
Lenovo’s $199 IdeaPad A1 Now Available for Pre-Order, Shipping Oct. 27
Lenovo got a fair amount of buzz around IFA 2011 for announcing a 7-inch Android tablet for $199. Up until then, many of the cheaper Android tablet manufacturers were lesser-known brands, not necessarily known for their top quality. Lenovo’s low-cost, entry-level Gingerbread tablet would give…
Lenovo May Not Ship More Than 2 Million Tablets This Year
While Lenovo is trying to compete with the Apple tablet juggernaut, they still seem too skittish about manufacturing and shipping enough tablets to make a real dent in Apple’s sales. Loose-lipped parts suppliers have given Digitimes estimates indicating only 500…,000 ThinkPad tablets will be
Lenovo IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook Product Tour
Intel is launching its new product category the Ultrabook and Lenovo has jumped on the bandwagon in addition to ASUS with their UX21 & UX31… and Acer with its 3951. Lenovo is going to be releasing the U300S which is a 13.3 inch a 14.9mm
Manufacturers Outwardly Confident About Ultrabooks, Tentative with Supply
IFA 2011 saw a big push for the Ultrabook computer. Almost every major PC manufacturer — Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and Toshiba — announced their Ultrabook models to be released in the next month or two. All of the brand-new Ultrabooks looked sleek and thin, poised…
Another Ultrabook Round-Up For Your Perusal
Liliputing has a great round-up of specs for the 5 ultrabooks that were introduced at IFA 2011. It’s a nice companion article to the one we posted earlier from This is My Next, since that one mainly had video and lots of photos.
These…
Ultrabooks Galore at IFA 2011
It seems that IFA 2011 has ushered in the era of the ultrabooks category of laptops. These Intel-based, Ultra…-thin, and light laptops hope to lure you away from the MacBook Air with their sleek hardware designs, beefy hardware specs, and, most importantly, pricing competitive
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Hands On at IFA 2011
Here’s our hands on look at Lenovo’s business focused ThinkPad Tablet. One of the tablet’s key features, seen only on a few Android tablets, is adoption of a digitizer pen, and we briefly check out how one of Lenovo’s notetaking apps converts writing into text.…
Lenovo IdeaPad A1 Hands-On at IFA 2011 [video]
Yesterday we reported on the Lenovo IdeaPad A1. It was making waves in tech news because Lenovo is going after the budget-conscious consumers by offering the IdeaPad starting at $199. Until now the bigger companies offering Android tablets didn’t have inexpensive tablets in the market.…
Lenovo IdeaPad A1: 7″ Budget Android Tablet for $200
As we all saw with the buying frenzy over the $99 HP TouchPads, pricing of consumer electronics is as important (sometimes moreso, for some people?) as the device itself. It seems that Lenovo is testing the waters of the budget Android tablets by introducing the…
Lenovo IdeaPad K1 with Android Honeycomb & Nvidia Tegra 2 at IFA 2011 [video]
Sascha took a quick look at Lenovo’s entry-level Android Honeycomb tablet, the IdeaPad K1…. From the video, it looks like a solid offering from Lenovo, but nothing too exciting. Based on performance of the accelerometer and scrolling between home screens, Sascha guessed that the
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet: A Quick Hands-On Tour
The Lenovo ThinkPad seems to have taken a page from the Toshiba Thrive by supporting a multitude of ports — full-sized USB, full-sized SD slot, and mini-HDMI, for example — as well as a page from the HTC Flyer… by offering stylus-optimized functionality. However, unlike
