Lenovo ThinkPad 8 review - Pocket Windows, with a sharp screen

 

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CNET Editors' Rating

4.0 stars - Excellent

$399.00

The good: The Lenovo ThinkPad 8 runs full Windows 8.1, has an excellent higher-res 8.3-inch display, 64GB of storage standard, all the basic ports you'd need, and fits into a super-slim package.

The bad: More expensive than other 8-inch Windows tablets; doesn’t come with a stylus, or keyboard; other tablets have better battery life.

The bottom line: If you’re craving full Windows 8 on a tablet the size of an iPad Mini, and want a great display, the ThinkPad 8 is one of the best we’ve seen...but not by much.

 

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Lenovo ThinkPad X240 review: A no-nonsense business laptop

PCWorld - If Lenovo’s spendy ThinkPad X1 Carbon is the laptop every corporate drone craves, Lenovo’s thrifty ThinkPad X240 is the laptop their employer is more apt to spring for (assuming, of course, that the company’s IT department has standardized on Lenovo and not Dell, HP, Toshiba, or some other commercial laptop builder). 

You might think the ThinkPad X240 is too thick and too heavy to qualify for Ultrabook designation, but it’s only 0.79 inches thick and it weighs just 3 pounds. And there’s a very good reason why the X240 doesn’t taper to a knife edge like the X1 Carbon does: The X240 is outfitted with two batteries and a battery bridge that enables you to swap a depleted battery for one that’s fully charged without turning the machine off. That’s slick.

 

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Lenovo's ThinkPad X240 looks thick only next to wafer-thin notebooks like Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon. This machine is only 0.79 inches thick and it weighs three pounds.

PCWorld’s Worldbench suite rewards laptops equipped with SSDs—the configuration reviewed here includes a 256GB model—but the X240’s score of 282 leaves it slightly behind Dell’s XPS 12 Ultrabook Convertible (which has the same dual-core CPU) and Samsung’s Ativ Book 7 (which is powered by a third-generation Core i5-3337U, another dual core). This is a little surprising considering that the ThinkPad had twice as much DDR3/1600 memory: 8GB versus 4GB in the Dell and the Samsung.    Read More

Lenovo ThinkPad Twist Review

 

CNET Editors' Rating

4.0 stars - Excellent

$879.00 to $974.95 

The good: The ThinkPad Twist has great Lenovo construction, a responsive touch screen, and a center hinge for flipping into tablet mode, all for a very reasonable price.

The bad: The screen accelerometer can have a mind of its own, flipping into portrait view randomly. Battery life is merely OK, and the screen resolution is low for a modern laptop/tablet convertible.

The bottom line: Slightly less conservative-feeling than the average ThinkPad, the well-made ThinkPad Twist offers one of the better tablet modes from the first wave of Windows 8 convertibles.

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Lenovo shows off Windows 8 gear: Tablets, RT convertible laptops, and Ultraportables

PCWorld - Lenovo on Tuesday announced a new range of Windows 8 and RT hybrid computing devices that can function as tablets or laptops.

The devices include the IdeaPad Yoga 11, which is the company's first hybrid laptop/tablet with an ARM processor and Windows RT. The device has an 11.6-inch screen and a touchscreen that flips to become a tablet. The device weighs 1.27 kilograms, offers 13 hours of battery life and will become available in December starting at US$799.

The Yoga 11 is aimed at highly mobile users, said Peter Hortensius, senior vice president of the product group at Lenovo, in an interview. The Windows RT OS will not run existing Windows applications, so products with the OS may attract a new generation of laptop and tablet users, Hortensius said. The devices may take off just like tablets, which also attracted a new user base.

The Yoga 11 is a smaller version of the IdeaPad Yoga 13, which was shown at the Consumer Electronics Show and was one of the first tablet/PC hybrids shown. The Yoga 13 has a 13.3-inch screen and weighs 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds). It will come with Windows 8 and has Intel's Core processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. The Yoga 13 offers a battery life of eight hours and will become available for $1,099 on Oct. 26.

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Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon: The Ultralight, Semi-Rugged Carbon Fiber Ultrabook

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Tablets may be the next big thing in mobile computing, but don't count out ultrabooks just yet. At least not until you've given Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Carbon—a feather-weight, carbon fiber workhorse a closer look. It's tough, it's light, and you don't have to be an office drone to crave it.

The X1 Carbon it the latest addition to Lenovo's popular X1 series. Despite a spacious 14-inch screen, the X1 Carbon tips the scales at a scant three pounds—making it the lightest rig of its size—thanks to its carbon fiber roll cage. The screen displays at a native 1600x900 resolution. The system supports up to 8GB of integrated DDR3, runs 64-bit windows 7 Pro, and has that Intel Ivy Bridge goodness you've been hearing so much about.

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Lenovo IdeaPad S2109 gets a video unveiling

One of the informative scenes from the bass-heavy announcement 
video of Lenovo’s new IdeaPad tablet.  
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Franklin/CNET)


CNET - The new tablet sports a 9.7-inch, IPS screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio and an iPad2-matching resolution of 1024×768. This obviously falls short of the new iPad’s 2048×1536 resolution and even most Android tablets, which usually top out at 1280×800.

The S2109 includes micro USB, a microSD card slot, and a single 1.3-megapixel front camera. However, say what you will about its unibody design, 8.9mm thickness, or its purported 10 hour battery life, the most intriguing detail has to be its inclusion of quad speakers on the back.

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