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| 04/07/2010 |  | | Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops Pass the “Tough Test":Meet Military Specifications for Semi-Rugged Computing
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – February 24, 2009: Lenovo today announced that it is designating eight ThinkPad laptops for use in field and vehicle semi-ruggedized computing environments such as in public safety, utilities, construction and the military. The ThinkPad X200, X301, X200s, X200 Tablet, T400, T500, R400 and SL300 laptops meet a barrage of military specifications tests and are enhanced with uniquely-designed durability features such as an airbag-like protection system and a roll cage in select models. Because field computing requires excellent screen viewability, Lenovo is also adding a new optional 680-nit high brightness panel to its most popular laptop, the ThinkPad T400 laptop.
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| 02/17/2010 | | | Live Webcast on new entry level Workstation by Lenovo, Intel® and Autodesk
Entry level meets Power, Price, Performance (P³)
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| 10/22/2009 | | | Lenovo Boosts Digital Entertainment and Personal Productivity with Windows 7-Based PCs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – October 22, 2009: Lenovo today announced that it is now offering a broad portfolio of Think and Idea-branded PCs running the new Windows 7 operating system. Lenovo is also introducing two new ThinkPad laptops geared for the way small to medium businesses (SMB) work. Packed with performance and the little extras that make a big difference, the new ThinkPad SL410 and SL510 laptops feature crisp and clear 16:9 high definition screens, make voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calls rich and seamless and sport a new look and feel with a matte-finish cover.
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| 10/20/2009 | | | Lenovo Delivers On Vision for Greener Computing with New ThinkVision Monitors
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - October 20, 2009: Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) today unveiled five new ThinkVision monitors that advance “green” design and usability while providing an unmatched visual-rich experience. The new line-up includes Lenovo’s flagship ThinkVision L2251x Wide monitor, the company’s most environmentally-responsible monitor for its use of recycled plastics, low power consumption and first PC monitor to be TCO Certified Edge. As Lenovo’s greenest monitors yet, the new ThinkVision L1711p, L1951p Wide, L2250p Wide, L2251p Wide and L2251x Wide extend Lenovo’s environmental product commitment to “Reduce. Reuse. and Recycle.” All the new monitors are TCO Certified, EPEAT Gold Rated1 and are more than 50 percent more energy-efficient than previous models, exceeding the Energy Star 5.0 criteria.2
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| 10/01/2009 | | | Lenovo Unifies Channel Strategy and Launches New Channel Partners Organisation
Paris, October 1, 2009: Lenovo today announced a new channel partners organisation with a single primary objective: to be the vendor of choice for the channel. The unification of the channel strategy will deliver an improved sales relationship and a consistent approach in support of its customers. This dedicated channel interface and the enhancements that Lenovo is introducing will bring significant benefits to channel partners and customers alike in both Enterprise & Public Sector and Transactional segments.
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| 09/17/2009 | | | Lenovo Extends Mobile Thin Client Portfolio with Wyse Technology
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK and SAN JOSE, CA – September 17, 2009: Lenovo today announced an agreement with Wyse to extend both companies’ product portfolios to reach customers in the thin mobile client market worldwide. Beginning next quarter, Wyse will add its expertise in thin client operating system optimization, management and virtualization software to select models of high performance Lenovo mobile clients. The companies will jointly market the products to meet a growing demand for powerful mobile thin clients, leveraging Wyse’s sales channels.
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| 09/15/2009 | | | Lenovo Adds Touch of Simplicity to New MultiTouch Screen ThinkPad PCs
“We see now as the right time for multitouch screens on PCs,” said Sam Dusi, vice president, worldwide ThinkPad product marketing, Lenovo. “With touch screens increasingly becoming part of more devices we use routinely and continued improvement of the technology including the integration of touch in the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, the environment for making touch part of our Tablet PC and ThinkPad T400s laptop experience couldn’t be better. We’ve also extended the touch experience with SimpleTap to make frequent hardware-based functions touch-enabled and simple.”
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| 09/01/2009 | | | Lenovo and VMware Expand ThinkServer Virtualization Capabilities
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - September 1, 2009: Today at VMworld 2009, Lenovo and VMware announced an agreement to provide VMware vSphere™ 4 on Lenovo ThinkServer offerings around the world. Starting in the fourth quarter of 2009, Lenovo will distribute and market VMware vSphere 4 through Lenovo’s sales channels. This enhanced relationship builds on a previous agreement to provide VMware virtualization on Lenovo servers sold in China.
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| 06/30/2009 | | | New Lenovo Servers Rack Up on Performance, Virtualization and Usability
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – June 30, 2009: Lenovo today announced its latest line of servers, the ThinkServer TD200 and TD200x tower servers as well as the RD210 and RD220 rack servers. The new servers offer small to mid-sized businesses the latest in performance with several choices of Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors and vastly expanded memory and storage. These ThinkServers are also equipped for virtualization and several power saving features to help customers cut their energy usage without sacrificing performance.
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| 06/29/2009 | | | Lenovo Offers Portfolio of PCs Meeting Energy Star 5.0 Specification
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – June 29, 2009 – Lenovo announced today that more than 25 of its Think-branded business and Idea-branded consumer PCs meet the new ENERGY STAR Version 5.0 Specification for Computers, which goes into effect on July 1, 2009. Lenovo PCs including the ThinkPad X301, T400s, W700ds and the IdeaPad U330 and Y430 laptops and select ThinkCentre M58, M58p and M58e Eco desktops have been 5.0 certified and available to purchase for up to six months.
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| 06/23/2009 | | | The Best of Both Worlds: Lenovo Combines Thin and Light With Powerful Performance in Latest ThinkPad Laptop
Paris, France – June 23, 2009: Lenovo today announced the ThinkPad T400s laptop, created to give business users a thin and light yet powerful, feature-packed PC. Lenovo’s designers sweat every detail, and the new laptop includes a series of significant enhancements invented to make the laptop more intuitive and easier to use, leading to an improved overall computing experience.
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| 05/25/2009 | | | Lenovo Gives New Look to Thin and Light with New Consumer “Idea” PCs
PARIS, FRANCE – May 25, 2009: Lenovo today announced three new PCs designed to give consumers cool, fun-to-use and highly reliable technology with the latest capabilities at a surprisingly affordable value. The new IdeaPad U350 laptop balances thin and light design with excellent performance without breaking the bank. The new IdeaPad S12 takes the best in connectivity, style and entertainment features from Lenovo’s existing netbooks, the IdeaPad S10 and S10-2. The Lenovo G550 laptop brings small-to-medium business users the essential computing performance they need with fast memory and processing and powerful graphics in a new stylish, professional design.
“Users are demanding thinner and lighter PCs with enhanced connectivity and extra long battery life to fit their increasingly mobile lifestyles,” said Dion Weisler, vice president, Business Operations, Idea Product Group, Lenovo. “To meet this growing category for ‘thinbooks’, we’re bringing customers products like the new IdeaPad U350 laptop, the IdeaPad S12 netbook and our recently introduced IdeaPad Y650 laptop.”
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| 05/12/2009 | | | New Lenovo Netbook Steps Ups Design for Extra Portability and Style
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – May 12, 2009: Lenovo today announced the IdeaPad S10-2 netbook to give online enthusiasts, social networkers and mobile consumers the latest in connectivity, entertainment and performance features to keep them better connected and enjoying their computing experience anytime, anywhere. The new IdeaPad S10-2 netbook gives consumers even cooler netbook features – models with 3G connectivity1 and 2, the rich sound of Dolby headphone technology for music and movies and long battery life. Lenovo also made the IdeaPad S10-2 netbook thinner and lighter than the previous IdeaPad S10 netbook, and packaged the netbook in an expressive, colorful new ring pattern design.
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| 04/17/2009 | | | New Lenovo Hardware Password Manager Unlocks Key to Stronger Data Security
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC USA – April 17, 2009: Lenovo today announced the Lenovo Hardware Password Manager, the latest advancement for businesses to manage data security and the only universal tool to work with all brands of hard drives with full disk encryption (FDE). This new tool allows IT administrators to remotely manage employee hard drive passwords, including drives that are self-encrypting, on many Lenovo Think-branded laptops and desktops. Remote management helps make adoption of FDE hard drives a more viable option for many companies now that IT administrators can easily centrally control and reset hard drive passwords. Hardware Password Manager not only helps companies increase their overall level of data security but also helps them reduce the time and expense associated with resetting employee passwords.
"Encrypting drives offer state of the art protection for PC data, but companies everywhere previously had difficulty managing them," said Peter Schrady, vice president and general manager, Enterprise, Software and Peripherals, Lenovo. "Lenovo's new Hardware Password Manager product provides an easy tool to reset passwords by remote control, including full-encryption drives. This is the world's only solution to centrally manage all available brands of fully encrypting drives. The fact that it can also utilize our fingerprint reader to access encrypted drives makes it even better."
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| 01/07/2009 | | | Lenovo UK Web Shop Opens Door to Online Sales
Hook, UK, 7th January, 2009 – Lenovo, one of the world’s largest PC manufacturers today announced that VSB, SOHO and consumers in the UK can now buy direct from www.lenovo.com/shop/uk. The move opens up a new customer segment for Lenovo, to complement its traditional indirect route to market.
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| 01/06/2009 | | | Lenovo Lays Stake on Prime Screen Real-Estate with Industry’s First Dual Screen Mobile Workstation
Paris, France – January 6, 2009: Lenovo today is bringing users the highest levels of mobile workstation innovation and performance with the introduction of the ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation. The ThinkPad W700ds gives users prime screen real-estate as the first mobile workstation in the industry with two screens. Lenovo combines a new balance of unique design with complex engineering and unparalleled performance to give users in the most demanding of fields such as digital content creation, oil and gas exploration, computer-aided design and photography, the ultimate mobile workstation.
“The ThinkPad W700ds dual screen mobile workstation challenged our international development team to engineer a notebook to fit the way workstation users work - in the office and on the road,” said Mark Cohen, vice president, Notebook Business Unit, Lenovo. “Bringing this level of innovation to the most extreme PC users required continually balancing size and functionality with keeping the PC cool and quiet. This mobile workstation is the result of where Lenovo innovation and performance intersect.”
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| 12/17/2008 | | | Global PC Company Lenovo Teams Up with Leading Formula 1 Team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
WOKING, UK, December 17, 2008 --
Global PC manufacturer Lenovo and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes today announced a partnership ahead of the 2009 Formula 1 season. Lenovo notebook and desktop PCs will provide the team’s mission-critical computing solutions, both at the race track and at the team’s headquarters.
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| 11/25/2008 | | | “Lockdown Now PC.” Lenovo Locks Out Thieves from ThinkPad Notebook PCs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – November 25, 2008: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced plans to bring customers a new security defense against unauthorized data access on Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. The Lenovo Constant Secure Remote Disable feature lets users send a simple text message command via a cell phone to render their PC useless to unauthorized users when the notebook is lost or stolen. Lenovo worked with Phoenix Technologies (Nasdaq: PTEC), a leader in embedded technologies that improve the user experience, to develop this capability. Lenovo’s Remote Disable feature will be available on select ThinkPad notebooks equipped with mobile broadband1 starting in 1Q 2009.
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| 11/25/2008 | | | Lenovo Launches IdeaPad netbook PC
BASINGSTOKE, UK – November 25th 2008: Lenovo today introduced the IdeaPad S10e netbook. Designed for mobile users from all walks of life, the new 10.1’ inch netbook with an LED backlit display, combines the portability of a small and light PC device starting under 1.2kg with Internet and multimedia functionality at an affordable price.
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| 11/18/2008 | | | Lenovo Introduces High Value Desktop PC for Cost-Conscious Buyers; Ideal for Emerging Markets
Basingtoke, UK – November 18th, 2008: Lenovo today announced the ThinkCentre A57e, a new desktop PC that brings quality-assured, hassle-free, energy-efficient, secure and affordable computing to SMB customers. Available immediately in the EMEA and APAC regions, the A57e is particularly ideal for small businesses and first time buyers who are looking for high value personal computing solutions but are constrained by budgets.
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| 11/13/2008 | | | Lenovo Introduces Mobile “Vault” with ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – November 13, 2008: Lenovo today announced the ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive to give customers a secure way to protect sensitive data in a lightweight and easy-to-use design. The award winning, high capacity hard drive, available in either 160 or 320 GB versions, uses a numeric keypad allowing users to type in their passcode to access their data. At less than an inch thin, and approximately the size of a 3 x 5 inch index card, it’s small enough to fit in a shirt pocket.
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| 10/29/2008 | | | LENOVO TURNS THE LIGHTS DOWN LOW WITH POWER MANAGER ON NEW THINKCENTRE PC
Basingstoke, UK – October 29, 2008: Lenovo today announced its greenest, most secure and most manageable ThinkCentre desktop PC yet, the M58/M58p, with Power Manager1, a ThinkVantage technology that allows PC users to control their electricity consumption remotely, and available for the first time ever on a ThinkCentre PC.
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| 10/28/2008 | | | Lenovo Launches New Line of 15.4” Widescreen Notebooks in EMEA
Basingstoke, UK – 28th October, 2008 – Lenovo today announced the Lenovo 3000 N500 notebook, a new 15.4” widescreen notebook, available in the EMEA region, designed to address the specific needs of Very Small Business (VSBs) customers. It combines performance, stylish design, Lenovo Care for worry-free computing, enhanced multi-media tools for an easy end-user experience and connectivity options for on-the-go flexibility – all at a great price.
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| 09/23/2008 | | | Breaking the Mold: New Lenovo ThinkPad Notebook and Tablet PCs Defy Ultraportable Computing
Paris, France – September 23, 2008: Lenovo today announced two new ThinkPad notebooks that significantly address the key factors mobile computer users consider today – light weight, long battery life and usability. With models starting at just 2.4 pounds[1] and with models offering maximum battery life lasting up to more than 13 hours[2], the ThinkPad X200s notebook leads Lenovo’s business-class notebook portfolio for lightest weight and longest battery life. Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC also leads the industry for its light weight design, with models shedding almost 10 percent over the previous generation Tablet PC’s weight. Additionally, the Tablet PC also offers models with nearly 50 percent longer battery life.
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| 09/17/2008 | | | Lenovo Pioneers next generation of Display technology with
six New energy-efficient ThinkVision Monitors
Interop, New York – September 17, 2008: At the Interop show today, Lenovo announced the latest additions to its ThinkVision monitor portfolio that pioneer a new level of energy-efficiency for PC displays. Delivering outstanding performance, the new ThinkVision L1700p, L1940 Wide, L1940p Wide, L2240p Wide, L2440p Wide and L2440x Wide monitors use 30-60 percent less energy than previous ThinkVision models1, are EPEAT Gold rated and GREENGUARD certified, and include packaging for select models with 65 percent recycled materials.
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| 09/16/2008 | | | LENOVO DELIVERS BIG FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES
WITH GLOBAL LAUNCH OF THINKSERVER LINE
NEW YORK – September 16, 2008: Lenovo announced at Interop today its worldwide entry into the server market with its new ThinkServer line. ThinkServers are tuned to provide an out-of-the-box solution for small and medium businesses that require robust performance and high levels of storage but don’t have dedicated IT staff to set up and manage a server environment. ThinkServers are complemented by easy-to-use management software and a 90-day trial of ThinkPlus Priority Support to help customers acclimate to their new server environment.
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| 09/15/2008 | | | Lenovo Joins The Climate Group,Announces New Program To Encourage Recycling And Renewable Energy Use
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC and NEW YORK, September 15, 2008. Lenovo today announced it has joined international non-profit organization, The Climate Group, and as part of that membership unveiled a comprehensive program that rewards consumers for recycling end-of-life devices, and offers consumers incentives to power new computers with renewable energy. This new program encourages consumers to make more environmentally responsible choices throughout the lifecycle of the computing device – and complements what Lenovo is doing to "green" its own operations.
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| 08/28/2008 | | | LENOVO'S NEW DESKTOP PC MARRIES STABILITY AND SAVINGS FOR BUSINESS
Basingstoke, UK – August 28, 2008: Lenovo today announced the ThinkCentre A62, one of the most cost effective and stable ThinkCentre PCs ever. The A62 is among the most environmentally friendly desktops on the market, and comes with such features as Dash 1.1, a highly touted remote management system and Express Repair, which allows the system to rapidly fix many system corruptions. ThinkCentre A62 is Lenovo’s latest PC offering in a summer 2008 blitz aimed at helping businesses with cost effective computing solutions.
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| 08/12/2008 | | | Lenovo Unleashes PC Beast on Mobile Workstation Market with ThinkPad W700
Basingstoke, UK – August 12, 2008: Lenovo today introduced the ThinkPad W700, a 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation engineered with game-changing technologies and innovations to exceed the demands of the most data and graphics-intensive users. Lenovo brings the industry’s first built-in digitizer and colour calibrator to a mobile workstation and combines these innovations with first-in-market technologies such as new NVIDIA® Quadro FX mobile graphics and supporting the upcoming Intel® mobile quad core processor. Other features such as optional dual hard drives with RAID configurations, up to 8 GB of high speed DDR3 memory, a range of wireless connectivity options and excellent multimedia capabilities including an optional Blu-ray™ DVD burner/player make the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation the standard-bearer for power and performance in a mobile workstation.
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| 08/04/2008 | | | Lenovo Dives into Sub-Notebook Computing with First Consumer “Netbooks”
Basingstoke, UK – August 4, 2008: Lenovo today announced it is entering the “netbook,” market with the new IdeaPad S9 and S10 netbooks. Lenovo designed the super-slim, super-small IdeaPad's to complement a customer’s primary PC or as a first-time, introductory PC purchase. The IdeaPad's allow users to do simple activities such as dive the Internet, check and write emails, listen to music and run basic applications. Approximately one inch thin with models weighing just over two pounds, the IdeaPad netbooks typify thin and light design.
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