Tag: Lenovo
Best of CES 2013
The Notebooks.com team presents our best of CES 2013 awards. While CES 2103 didn’t feature as many Notebooks as years past, our team scoured the show floor and met with the top computer companies to see nearly every notebook announced at CES 2013. After looking through all the notebooks and notebook technology we picked the [...]
IdeaPad U & IdeaPad Z Series Updated with Touch for Windows 8
The Lenovo IdeaPad U series and IdeaPad Z series gained small updates at CES 2013 where Lenovo unveiled touch-screens models of their popular IdeaPad notebooks. These new touch screen models arrive with Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows with a standard desktop mode and a touch-friendly modern user interface with Live Tiles. The IdeaPad [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad Twist Review: Ultrabook Convertible
The Lenovo ThinkPad Twist is the first business Ultrabook Convertible to arrive with Windows 8. The Twist twists from a small portable ThinkPad notebook with the well-known ThinkPad keyboard to a small Windows 8 tablet thanks to a rotating hinge. Switching from a notebook to a tablet isn’t new, but combined with Windows 8′s touch-friendly design, [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch Arrives with Windows 8
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is even more attractive now that Lenovo put the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch up for sale with Windows 8. This new version of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon that we loved includes a 14.1-inch touch screen and a 3G radio for on the go productivity anywhere there is a cell signal. The [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 Review
The ThinkPad Edge E530 is a budget priced business notebook that delivers the build quality users expect from Lenovo and a quality typing experience on Lenovo’s newer island style keyboard. Mobile users will appreciate the matte display, but the thick bulky design detracts from the appeal of taking the Edge E530 on every trip out [...]
IdeaPad Z Series Stay Slim, Pack Dedicated NVIDIA GPU
Rounding out the new IdeaPad notebooks, Lenovo brings the IdeaPad Z series to consumers with a 25% thinner design than the company’s G series without commanding a premium price. The new IdeaPad Z series are configurable up to an Intel Core i7 3rd generation processor with up to 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 and Y500 Multimedia Notebooks Arrive
The new Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 and Y500 notebooks launched this morning at the IFA 2012 show in Berlin Germany. These new notebooks focus on multimedia users with a new feature from Lenovo called the UltraBay. This interchangeable opening allows users to switch between dual graphics, more storage or an extra fan for better cooling. The [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad U510 Ultrabook Brings a 15.6″ Display to the Party
It was only a matter of time before big screens hit the Ultrabook market. We first heard about 15-inch Ultrabooks at CES 2012, and now Lenovo is offering up the IdeaPad U510. The IdeaPad U510 is an Ultrabook, but it is thicker and heavier than we are used to seeing. For the added size and [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad S300, S400 & S405 Notebooks Launch, Start at $499
Lenovo showed off a new batch of thin and light notebooks at IFA 2012 in Berlin Germany this week. The IdeaPad S series is not as thin and portable as an Ultrabook, but remains mobile without the higher price found on Ultrabooks. The IdeaPad S 300 and IdeaPad S 400 use the latest Intel 3rd [...]
ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review: Best Business Notebook (Editor’s Choice)
The new ThinkPad X1 Carbon is an impossibly thin 14″ premium Ultrabook that should be standard issue in corporate America. Like the ThinkPads before it, the X1 Carbon has a sturdy, minimalist appearance coupled with a great keyboard. Unlike business computers of yesterday, users no longer have to trade off portability for a large screen. [...]
