

Lenovo's New PCs and Laptops 61
pimpimpim writes "WebWire is reporting that Lenovo has introduced their 3000 line, a budget line of PCs and notebooks." From the article: "Researchers, scientists and product design teams from China, Japan and the U.S. combined Lenovo's heritage in enterprise and consumer PC technology to design an optimal computing experience for small businesses. The Lenovo 3000 product line features several new desktop and notebook models with the latest processor technologies in a new silver chassis."
Goodbye thinkpad's! (Score:2)
Look back in a year or two and see how many of the think* lines remain, my bet is one or two models of each just to keep the enterprise's whith competent it managment, and the cheap ones for the rest.
pictures (Score:2)
Ugly! (Score:2)
Re:Ugly! (Score:1)
---John Holmes...
Re:Ugly! (Score:1)
Re:pictures (Score:2)
Especially since the Intel desktops (J100) will use a SiS chipset (SiS 661) and the AMD desktops (J105) will use a VIA chipset (K8M800). The notebook chipset they're using (Intel 915GM) has a reputation for reliability, but notebook reliability depends on more factors outside the chipset.
Maybe I'm being unfair in my judgement of SiS and VIA, but since I value reliability, I would have liked to se
lenovo == the next dell (Score:2)
Fast forward today, and now we have Dell, the GM of cars (ubiquitous despite questionable styling and quality), with nowhere to go but down, in the face of Chinese manufacturers like Lenovo who have inherited IBM's great tech, and have the workforce and facilities to make new machines for rock bottom prices.
As
Re:lenovo == the next dell (Score:1)
What will likely happen is that lenovo won't be able to fulfill the warranty or guarantee facilities they need to in order to keep consumers happy. That is an area where dell traditionally lead the pack.
Say what you will about Dell in any other area but most will agree their warranty service is second to none. IBM was very good also.
I don't think Lenovo will be ab
Re:lenovo == the next dell (Score:1)
The grandparent post is FUD. Just that Lenovo started elsewhere does not mean it will flop. 20 years ago a lot of people though the same about Toyota. Hasn't anyone learn from history?
As for customer service, Lenovo has done a pretty good job in China. The US might be a different market. But...hey, let time tell...
Re:lenovo == the next dell (Score:2)
Most products are made like crap nowadays, built by american OR chinese hands.
Re:lenovo == the next dell (Score:2)
Reminds you all the more of how much you're overpaying?
LK
Truth hurt? (Score:1)
Spoken like a true fanboy who knows he's wrong, knows why, and just doesn't have any other rebuttal besides, "I'm tired of hearing it."
Don't shoot the messenger, pal. It's not his
Re:lenovo == the next dell (Score:2)
I'd never buy a Dell either. The difference is that I can and have built my own Windows/Linux PC that is faster, cheaper and more reliable than an equivalent Dell.
LK
No Track Point? (Score:4, Interesting)
More info and pics [notebookreview.com] on the new Lenovo's.
No Track Point?
Re:No Track Point? (Score:1)
That really sucks!! But maybe for the best.. (Score:2)
I loathe those Alps trackpads. There is something about them that makes them hard to use - once you disable tapping (so you can't mistakenly drag stuff around when you lift your finger by accident) and get over the fact you can't use them with anything but a finger press (I get the impression they work by heat, but I would rather it was more like a stylus or touchscreen so I could use my fingernail) and the scrolling stuff while SO useful, doesn't work in such a small
Re:No Track Point? (Score:1)
Re:No Track Point? (Score:2, Insightful)
Why would they do this? Looks like they are ditching every thing they bought from IBM. What exactly did they buy?
Doen't look like I'll be getting a thinkpad again.
Re:No Track Point? (Score:2)
And they bought partial IBM ownership of them, which will keep IBM tech flowing into their more competitive operation.
Re:not on this model at least, maybe never (Score:2)
1. The early Track Points had a few issues. This really isn't that big of a point because most of these were fixed rather quickly and also the fact that the notebook world was still trying to find a truly usable pointing device. This was the era of trackballs and even the pop out mouse [246.dk].
2. The Track Point III was functionally solid and very usable. Around that time many
Re:not on this model at least, maybe never (Score:2)
Nothing of the sort. Everybody I have ever seen using ThinkPads for a long time is pretty much addicted to the thing. All of the new combo trackpoint/touchpad units at my clients' have the touchpad permanently disabled. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the wants of consumers but with IBM licensing policies to other makers and later, their eventual efforts to adopt the "don't stick out of the crowd" mentality of marketing drones. "
Re:not on this model at least, maybe never (Score:1)
They aren't addicted, they've just been forced to use it for so long that they no longer remember how much better a touchpad is.
Re:not on this model at least, maybe never (Score:2)
Right. That is why when offered, by all the combo pointer system ThinkPads in the last 3 years, the "thrilling", "exciting", "superior" joy of having one's palms move the mouse all over the screen while typing and rendering the "palm-rest" area ... well "unrestable", not to mention all the fun of having to move your hands back and forth between the pad and the keyboard all the tim
Re:not on this model at least, maybe never (Score:2)
I suppose using a trackpoint has a longer training period to get accustomed to using it. But I suspect that a trained touchpoint user is much more accurate than a touchpad user. I could play a FPS with a touchpoint if I had to, but I can't imagine doing it with a touchpad.
Oh, and I absolutely h
Thinkpad Fan (Score:1)
---John Holmes...
Re:Thinkpad Fan (Score:1)
For laptop, I suggest check the machine yourself. Of course, ignoring salesperson too
Specs... (Score:1, Troll)
I thought the article was maybe way out of date for a moment when I read this bit about these laptops,
and these bits about the desktops,
WTF?! Why not
Re:Specs... (Score:1)
Re:Specs... (Score:1)
Re:Specs... (Score:3, Interesting)
I did miss the budget line bit, mea culpa, but that still doesn't mean they can't be using Turion 64 ML-28's and MT-28's, or Athlon 64 3200+'s (939pin) in the desktops.
Maybe not the dual-core Intel's, fair enough, but 17 inch screens shouldn't be ignored because the laptops are "budget models".
Why can't anyone seem to bring out a design that has a starting configuration that is "budget" but can be configured to match almost any high-end DTR on the market? Look at the size of the new laptops from Dell
Re:Specs... (Score:1)
In Lenovo's defense . . . (Score:2)
--Ryv
Re:In Lenovo's defense . . . (Score:2)
Latitudes are nice machines, though not nearly as nice as the T series
Slow news day? (Score:1)
Adverts need not apply.
Well bugger me (Score:1)
Good point. Well made.
I hadn't even noticed I was doing it..
Re:Slow news day? (Score:1)
Meanwhile Apple is hosting today a special event for fun new products [businessweek.com] - Wake me up when the fun arrives...
Re:Slow news day? (Score:2)
Fun new products from Apple are real funny btw
Re:Slow news day? (Score:1)
At least with Apple's mac mini it's a different form factor.
Re:Slow news day? (Score:1)
Here is where my concern for the fate of the thinkpad comes. They are expensive, not using state of the art tech (for a reason, though), no flashy d
Re:Slow news day? (Score:1)
Re:Slow news day? (Score:1)
I hope that down the road they continue the performance and reliability of the Thinkpads. These new models don't give me much hope, though.
As for the alternati
Re:Slow news day? (Score:2)
Tsk Tsk. (Score:1)
Cheap stuff (Score:2)
the latest cpus.
This doesn't look like an ad for lenovo to me. This looks like an advertisement for apple.
As far as the Z60 goes (Score:2)
The Nipple (Score:1)
Budget? (Score:2)