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Lenovo's World Of Leather
Blog Comment I have always seen the thinkpad as the audi of laptops - with all the smart thinking employed inside the box. and completely at odds with the understated, matt black look of the Thinkpad. This would mark a departure into the hideous territory of...
[September 6, 2007, 11:04]
Notebook Makers Tune Into Wireless
News A source close to IBM said the ThinkPad T23, which could be up to a couple of months from launch, will add integrated wireless networking to the company's line of thin-and-light portables. The source said the antenna needed for the wireless...
[May 11, 2001, 8:12]
Lenovo Recalls 205,000 ThinkPad Batteries
News Lenovo is offering to replace, for free, 205,000 extended-life nine-cell batteries that shipped in several of its ThinkPad models. The nine-cell battery packs were sold as part of the following ThinkPad models, or as optional or replacement packs:
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
IBM Floats New ThinkPad Prototypes
News IBM will unveil two prototype ThinkPad notebook PCs today, designed to illustrate how laptops could be designed to fit more comfortably into everyday use. IBM designers, envisioning the next generation of the 10-year old notebook ThinkPad line...
[September 16, 2003, 10:35]
Caisse Centrale De Reassurance's Mobile Information Channel Boosts Productivity And Sales
White Papers IBM Business Consulting Services teamed with CCR to develop a wireless information channel - using IBM ThinkPad T41 laptops and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-enabled phones - that allows CCR's 30 mobile sales executives to access company...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Cisco Case Study: St John's University
White Papers John's considered several laptop vendors and selected Cisco Global Strategic Alliance partner IBM based on the quality of its ThinkPad laptop computers. They were driven by a desire to create truly ubiquitous access and that meant a combination of...
[January 10, 2006, 23:00]
Lenovo To Launch Super 3G Laptops
News Lenovo will add this integrated networking to its ThinkPad T60 and X60 notebooks. While HSPDA support will not be available immediately, ThinkPad customers will be able to upgrade their notebooks to this faster technology in the future, Lenovo said...
[February 1, 2006, 17:10]
The ThinkPad At 15
Blog Comment I only started using my first ThinkPad about 6 years ago but I have been a convert ever since. I have not always had the luxury of being able to select my own laptop for work use, but based on experience of using ultra-portable machines from Dell...
[July 24, 2007, 10:26]
Lenovo To Make And Sell IBM XServers
News Lenovo will sell IBM-based x86 servers to small and medium-sized businesses through the same channels as its ThinkPad laptops and ThinkCentre desktops, the company said earlier this week. However, it is merely licensing the technology rather than...
[January 25, 2008, 15:31]
IBM Pushes The Linux Envelope
News On Monday, the company announced stepped-up support of Linux on a host of platforms, ranging from ThinkPad laptops, to RS/6000 workstations, to AS/400 servers. IBM also announced strategies for preloading Linux on Thinkpad systems, delivering a...
[June 12, 2000, 16:53]
HP Investigates Greenpeace Toxic Claims
News Meanwhile, Chinese computer giant Lenovo, which came bottom in a another Greenpeace toxic report, announced this week that its ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre Desktops and ThinkVision monitors have received high ratings from EPEAT, a procurement...
[September 20, 2006, 17:45]
Lenovo Denies Ditching Linux
News Because different companies use different configurations of Linux on their ThinkPad notebooks, Lenovo doesn't provide licences for the software, he said. Chinese computer supplier Lenovo has denied a report that it is planning to stop offering...
[June 5, 2006, 16:25]
ThinkPads Will Get Suse Linux Preloaded
News The Linux laptops will be geared toward engineers and other high-end users, but they will be available for purchase by anyone on Lenovo's Web site, said Bill Iori, worldwide segment manager for ThinkPad T Series.
[August 15, 2006, 9:55]
OpenBSD 3.8 Improves Hardware Support
News OpenBSD, which celebrated its tenth birthday on 18 October, offers improved hardware support in its latest version, including support for the accelerometer found in some IBM ThinkPad laptops and for additional
[November 1, 2005, 16:00]
Nintendo's GameCube To Be Co-branded By IBM
News Although IBM is best known for branded products such as its ThinkPad laptops, it also supplies chips and other parts for a number of outside companies. IBM's newest business partner is a mustachioed Italian plumber with gorilla issues.
[August 23, 2001, 10:42]
Bluetooth Shatters Milestone As New Standard Debuts
News Bluetooth comes as an option on laptops including IBM's ThinkPad, Toshiba's Portege, Dell's Latitude D800 and Sony's Vaio, and is standard in Apple's G4 PowerBooks. Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology, has passed another landmark in its...
[November 7, 2003, 11:20]
Wireless LAN Security
News Hitoshi Takanashi, chief technology director at NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratory, Palo Alto, a division of NTT America, says that before installing the Vernier Control Server and Access Manager for its WLAN, the company had weak access...
[April 17, 2002, 13:39]
Linux Laptops Get Centrino Inside
News Rob Herman, a programme manager with IBM's ThinkPad division, said IBM is a major Linux backer, but it sees only pockets of customers such as engineers and programmers with interest in Linux laptops. Improvements to Linux have led Intel to permit...
[January 20, 2005, 8:25]
Defra Equips Staff With 'green' Laptops
News The department said that staff will receive a Lenovo ThinkPad X61, running Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 software, along with a laptop rucksack. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is moving 10,000...
[July 21, 2008, 9:23]
Dell Will Sell AMD Notebooks 'this Year'
News With Dell embracing AMD chips on the notebook front, Toshiba and Lenovo — with its ThinkPad series — are the only major PC makers that have yet to offer AMD-based products. Following its recent partnership with AMD to put the latter's chip in its...
[August 9, 2006, 12:30]
