So, uh, what’s up Lenovo? Honeycomb tablets you say? Three of them launching later this year, eh? Alright, let’s take a look.
To start off, the Thinkpad Tablet is a business-oriented tablet which has a 10.1-inch 1280×800 IPS Gorilla Glass display, a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, runs Android 3.1 (Honeycomb), has a full-size SD card slot and a USB port, and can be bought with an optional digitizer pen. The 16GB and 32GB ThinkPad Tablets will be available on August 2nd for $479 and $589, respectively of course. The Ideapad Tablet K1 will be targeted at the regular consumer and is equipped with a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 resolution screen (non-IPS), HDMI-out, a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity, and a Netflix-sponsored app to boot. The 32GB IdeaPad Tablet P1 will be available on July 20th for $499.99; a 3G model is in the works, says Lenovo.
And last but not least (but the most lackluster of the bunch), the IdeaPad Tablet P1 runs Windows 7 and is powered by a 1.5GHz Intel processor. It will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. Not like anyone will care for a Windows 7 tablet, but whatever. PR after the break.
This is now one of my personal favorite laptops to hit the market in recent months: the Lenovo X1. Launching tomorrow starting at $1,399, you get a 13.3-inch Gorilla Glass display with 1366×768 resolution, tough as nails construction which can survive several spills and falls, a fully-backlit keyboard, Intel’s WiDi 2.0, Dolby enhanced speakers, HD webcam, weighs 3.89 pounds, is .87 inches thin at its thickest point, and .67 at its thinnest. Processor options include a dual-core Core i7, Core i5, and Core i3.
Just two days before Earth Day, Lenovo has released the new L series, aimed at being very, very eco-friendly. Starting striaght off the bat with specs — as always — an entry-level model starts at $649 and gets you a Celeron P4500 CPU, 160GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM. You can upgrade the 14-inch L412 and 15-inch L512 with a Core i3 or Core i5 processor, ATI Radeon HD 5145 graphics, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 500 GB HDD, has 4 USB ports, a 7-in-1 card reader, and purported battery life of up to 10 hours on a 6-cell battery. The only main drawbacks here are weight: 5.22 lbs is the L412 and the L512 adds an extra half pound on top of that. In the meantime, you can check out the gallery and press release, which is hiding somewhere after the cut.
Yawwwn. If for some reason you’ve taken into your right mind you need a desktop instead of a laptop, but it needs multitouch for some reason, Lenovo has the C315 for $649 coming out in April, which should fit the bill. Not much to see here: 20-inch multitouch display, unspecified AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon graphics (of some kind), and lots of pre-loaded apps for the multitouch. That’s all.
