Boasting a beefy 23-inch, full HD 1080p, touchscreen display with “surface acoustic wave (SAW)” technology is Lenovo’s rather luscious -looking new IdeaCentre A700 all-in-one PC.
Netbooks have come a long way since the basic offerings of a few years back, and although the initial surge in sales may be relaxing slightly, they’re still very useful things and very much in demand.
With hundreds of different models now competing for your wallet, we’ve taken a look around at the very best and selected four netbooks which we think are in the current cream of the crop.
Rarely has a single tech company been associated with so many different takeover contenders, and fresh whispers of an imminent buy out today (Wednesday) saw mobile phone makers Palm’s stocks soar 20%.
Sparking the share price surge was a rumour that Chinese computer maker Lenovo was casting its beady eye over the company for a potential takeover bid.
Looking impressively slick in its black curvy lines is Lenovo’s latest all-in-one PC, the affordable, front room friendly, Atom-powered C200.
The shiny black fella packs an 18.5 inch HD 16:9, 1366×768-widescreen display and comes in a variety of CPU options up to an Intel Atom Dual Core processor D510.
Graphics max out at a NVIDIA ION 256MB graphics processor and there’s an optional single-touch touchscreen panel if you fancy getting close up and smudgy with the screen.
Coming with enough bells, whistles and unexpected add-ons to grant it a space on the Glastonbury bill is Lenovo’s new ThinkPad W701 series of workstation laptops.
It’s still under development and not expected out until the second half of this year, but Lenovo ‘s U1 Tablet/PC Hybrid has already got us a lot more excited than Apple’s frankly underwhelming iPad offering.
Showcased at CES earlier this month, the tablet packs everything you’d need from a fully functioning tablet PC – touchscreen, full multitasking, automatic screen orientation, 3G, Wi-Fi, onboard camera etc, but comes with a very clever twist: it can clip into a special shell to become a full Windows 7 laptop with a proper keyboard.
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Surging the desirability factor up to underpant-threatening levels of excitement is Lenovo’s new stunning new Lephone handset.
A truly wondrous piece of super-shiny design, the Android handset packs a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and comes with a snap-on docking station with a full QWERTY keyboard. It looks nice. Very nice.
Say hello to Lenovo’s new Skylight netbook, the industry’s first ARM-based, Qualcomm smartbook, purring along on the freshly minted 1GHz Snapdragon processor (as seen in the Google Nexus One phone).
It’s a curious but attractive looking affair, but at least no one could accuse Lenovo of releasing a “me too” netbook, with the super-thin, shiny clamshell serving up a feast of curvy lines with the added bonus of an oddball attachable USB stick.
Lenovo have just announced their all-in-one IdeaCentre A300 OPC, a stunning piece of design, dominated by an ultra-thin, 21.5-inch LCD screen.
Lenovo has official unveiled its new ThinkPad X100e today, a natty slimline and light machine sporting a 11.6 inch display (1366 x 768 pixels) and classic Lenovo looks.
Powered by an AMD processor (with three different CPU options offered in the AMD Neo line), the x100e is the company’s first “entry-level ultraportable” and offers both a touchpoint pointing stick and a touchpad supporting multitouch gestures.
We have to admit we’re rather keen on Thinkpad laptops – heck, if they’re good enough for the Space Station, they’re good enough for us – so we’re rather looking forward to Lenovo’s new thin and light ultraportable Thinkpad x100e machines.
A little larger than your average netbook, the specs seem to be – as Leslie Phillips would say – ‘bang on’ with the diminutive laptop sporting a 11.1″ 1366 x 768 screen and AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor.
Purring along on either Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium or Pro (32 bit or 64 bit flavours), there’s capacity for up to 4GB of RAM, with storage being catered for by 2.5″ 5400rpm HDD drives coming in 160GB, 250GB or 320GB capacities.
A new study by warranty company SquareTrade analysed failure rates for over 30,000 new laptops covered by their plans, and found Asus and Toshiba to be the most reliable machines, with Sony not far behind in third place.
Worryingly, one in three of all laptops failed within 3 years, with SquareTrade discovering that netbooks were 20% more unreliable than regular laptops.
Looking meaner than Clint Eastwood after someone’s run over his pet moggy, Lenovo’s new gaming-oriented IdeaCentre B500 serves up heaps of power in a rugged all-in-one package.
Sporting more angles than a protractor factory after an explosion, the matt black and moody IdeaCentre B500 packs a 23-inch, 1,920×1080 display, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, JBL-brand integrated speakers and a motion-control remote.
Lenovo have announced the availability of their snazzy new range of IdeaCenter Q110 nettop machines in the States.
Powered by NVIDIA’s Ion platform, the Q110 measures up at just six inches wide, 0.8 inches deep and 6.8 inches high and looks – as we’d say in Wales – well lush, with both the silver and black patterned glossy finishes cutting a considerable dash to our eyes.
Designed to be used in the office, living room or bedroom, the book-sized nettops come with Windows Vista Home Premium 64 installed (or Windows 7 on free upgrade, when it becomes available), with the package offering 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive for $399 (currently around £250).
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