The ThinkPad T60 will use a 15.4-in. widescreen, yet hold its weight down to 5.1 pounds, lighter than any comparable notebook from the top five PC vendors.
November 29, 2006 (Press Release) --
Looking to compete with Dell Inc. for business users, Lenovo Group Ltd. has launched a widescreen version of its ThinkPad line of notebook PCs.
The ThinkPad T60 will use a 15.4-in. widescreen, yet hold its weight down to 5.1 pounds, lighter than any comparable notebook from the top five PC vendors, Lenovo said today.
The company also hopes that adding this feature will regain consumers' confidence after Lenovo was forced in September to recall the batteries from 526,000 ThinkPad models -- including the T60. Like notebooks sold by competing vendors Dell, Apple Computer Inc. and Toshiba Corp., those computers used lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony Corp., whose faulty design could lead to overheating and fire.
Lenovo already sells widescreen notebooks in other product lines, such as the Z-series and 3000-series for small businesses. But this is the first widescreen model for corporate users, said Rajat Aggarwal, product marketing manager for the T-Series at Lenovo.
Those customers can already choose a T60 notebook with 14- or 15-in. screen, but have recently been asking for the full widescreen version, allowing them to display more columns on an Excel spreadsheet, show multiple windows and fit better onto airplane tray tables, Aggarwal said. In another nod to high-end users, the notebook will be capable of running Microsoft Corp.'s new Vista OS, with a dual-core Core 2 Duo processor from Intel Corp. and graphics card from ATI.
Despite this package, Lenovo is lagging behind its rival PC vendors in delivering widescreen notebooks to the business market, analysts said.
"Lenovo is playing catch-up in the widescreen game," said Samir Bhavnani, research director at Current Analysis Inc. "Lenovo is a little late to the game because Dell's entire lineup of corporate systems is available in widescreen right now. Dell just identified a market shift before Lenovo did."
Still, the product should be popular with Lenovo's core audience, the corporate user, Bhavnani said. Since acquiring IBM Corp.'s notebook PC division in 2005, Lenovo has succeeded at preserving the ThinkPad brand's history of innovation, rolling out features such as the tablet PC and integrated wireless broadband.
Lenovo is selling the ThinkPad T60 notebook with 15.4-in. display for $1,399 in the base model. Users can upgrade to a version that works as a laptop workstation for faster numeric computation or to run the Vista Premium OS.
Author: Ben Ames
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/
The ThinkPad T60 will use a 15.4-in. widescreen, yet hold its weight down to 5.1 pounds, lighter than any comparable notebook from the top five PC vendors, Lenovo said today.
The company also hopes that adding this feature will regain consumers' confidence after Lenovo was forced in September to recall the batteries from 526,000 ThinkPad models -- including the T60. Like notebooks sold by competing vendors Dell, Apple Computer Inc. and Toshiba Corp., those computers used lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony Corp., whose faulty design could lead to overheating and fire.
Lenovo already sells widescreen notebooks in other product lines, such as the Z-series and 3000-series for small businesses. But this is the first widescreen model for corporate users, said Rajat Aggarwal, product marketing manager for the T-Series at Lenovo.
Those customers can already choose a T60 notebook with 14- or 15-in. screen, but have recently been asking for the full widescreen version, allowing them to display more columns on an Excel spreadsheet, show multiple windows and fit better onto airplane tray tables, Aggarwal said. In another nod to high-end users, the notebook will be capable of running Microsoft Corp.'s new Vista OS, with a dual-core Core 2 Duo processor from Intel Corp. and graphics card from ATI.
Despite this package, Lenovo is lagging behind its rival PC vendors in delivering widescreen notebooks to the business market, analysts said.
"Lenovo is playing catch-up in the widescreen game," said Samir Bhavnani, research director at Current Analysis Inc. "Lenovo is a little late to the game because Dell's entire lineup of corporate systems is available in widescreen right now. Dell just identified a market shift before Lenovo did."
Still, the product should be popular with Lenovo's core audience, the corporate user, Bhavnani said. Since acquiring IBM Corp.'s notebook PC division in 2005, Lenovo has succeeded at preserving the ThinkPad brand's history of innovation, rolling out features such as the tablet PC and integrated wireless broadband.
Lenovo is selling the ThinkPad T60 notebook with 15.4-in. display for $1,399 in the base model. Users can upgrade to a version that works as a laptop workstation for faster numeric computation or to run the Vista Premium OS.
Author: Ben Ames
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/
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