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Lenovo Readies New ThinkBook Family of Laptops
Lenovo is gearing up to launch a new series of notebooks aimed at mainstream users. The new ThinkBook laptops were recently showcased at a trade show in China and are currently listed by at least two European retailers. Meanwhile, based on model numbers, it looks like that when they launch in the coming weeks, the new ThinkBooks will succeed certain IdeaPad models within Lenovo's laptop product stack.
[...] The flagship Lenovo ThinkBook S models are based on Intel’s Core i7-8565U (Whiskey Lake) processors and are paired with 16 GB of RAM as well as a 512 GB M.2 NVMe SSD. Select models will also come with a discrete AMD Radeon 540X GPU, but expect this one to be available only inside premium SKUs. In fact, based on Lenovo’s usual approach, expect to see the Lenovo to release the ThinkBook S in a wide variety of configurations in order to cover several market segments.
Both demonstrated ThinkBook S models will also be outfitted with Lenovo’s Accutype keyboard, a rather large touchpad, a 720p webcam with IR sensors for Windows Hello, stereo speakers with Harman badge, a microphone array, three USB Type-A ports, a USB Type-C port, an HDMI output, and a 3.5-mm audio jack for headsets. As for dimensions and weight, the 13.3 and 14.1-inch machines feature 15.9 and 16.5-mm z-heights and weigh 1.34 and 1.5 kilograms respectively.
from the ideapads-but-with-higher-margins dept.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday May 04 2019, @04:47PM
An Acer I had to use overheated in a short while. Seems to be one of the more cheaply made, as you can tell from the low price. My experience of an ASUS laptop had no end of problems. The brittle, ultra-thin plastics gradually cracked and splintered off as well. Why do they go to the trouble of dressing a laptop with a load of brushed metal if they're going to make the structural bits around the ports, power socket etc. out of the crappiest, lightest plastic ever?! I already know the answer: built-in obsolescence, plus the Apple-inspired drive for thinness and lightness over substance. Maybe ASUS have made some more robust models--I don't know and I know longer care--as far as I'm concerned, they should stick to making bulletproof motherboards.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?