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IBM PC'S THINK & IDEA LAPTOPS NOW LENOVO THINKPADS: WHAT IS LENOVO?
IMAGE: THE LENOVO THINKPAD
INTERNET, JANUARY 3, 2011 (LENOVO.COM) Lenovo Group Limited (LGL) is a Chinese-based multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures and markets desktops and notebook personal computers, workstations, servers, storage drives, IT management software, and related services. Incorporated as 'Legend' in Hong Kong in 1988, Lenovo's principal operations are currently located in Beijing, China, Morrisville, North Carolina in the United States, and Singapore, with research centers in those locations, as well as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen, and Chengdu in China, and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Lenovo acquired the former IBM PC Company Division, which marketed the ThinkPad line of notebook PCs, in 2005 for approximately $1.75 billion.
In 2009, Lenovo was the fourth largest vendor of personal computers in the world. The company is the largest seller of PCs in China, with a 28.6% share of the China market, according to research firm IDC in July, 2009. It reported annual sales of $14.9 billion for the fiscal year ending 2008/2009 (ending March 31, 2009). Lenovo markets its products directly to consumers, small to medium size businesses, and large enterprises, as well as through online sales, company-owned stores (in China only), chain retailers, and major technology distributors and vendors.
On September 4, 2009, Oceanwide Holdings Group, a private investment firm based in Beijing, bought 29% of Legend Holdings, the parent company of Lenovo, for 2.76 billion yuan ($404.1 million). Legend Holdings is the asset management unit of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
On November 27, 2009, Lenovo Group announced its intention to purchase Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology. Lenovo Mobile now ranks No.3 in China's mobile handset market.
Relationships
Lenovo is now one of the world's largest makers of personal computers. Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Our mission is to provide businesses and consumers with smarter ways to be productive and competitive and to enhance their personal lives. Operating in more than 60 countries.
LENOVO's Competitive Spirit is proud to show the world they value the spirit and ideals of athletic sports competition as a sponsor partner of Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes Formula One Racing <http://mclaren.com/home>.
Innovation: New World, New Thinking
LENOVO's Heritage came about as the result of the merger of two of the most storied companies in technology and business: Legend Holdings in China and IBM's Personal Computing Division in the United States. The merger was heralded as a watershed event in global business with the potential for integrating two disparate cultures, languages, processes and markets.
As a result, Lenovo embodies the unique market possibilities in combining the best of East and West -- joining North American and China-based technology players in the creation of a unified global PC leader with growing market positions in developed and emerging markets alike. With more than $16 billion in annual revenue, Lenovo's market strength spans not only market geographies but also the world's consumer and business PC markets.
Lenovo: New World, New Thinking
Lenovo is one of the world's largest makers of personal computers, including the renowned ThinkPad® notebook as well as products carrying the ThinkCentre®, ThinkStation® and IdeaPad® sub-brands. Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division in 2005, Lenovo today is a world leader operating in more than 60 countries and providing businesses and consumers in more than 160 countries around the world with innovative products.
Lenovo's heritage in both emerging and developed markets has resulted in a business model based on a concept and strategy called "worldsourcing" – where LENOVO ideas, operations and resources are literally borderless and mobile. The result: new thinking for a new world, bringing innovation to businesses and consumers alike.
LENOVO has no world headquarters and, instead, have put in place a distributed management structure that places operational hubs in centers of excellence around the world. Their multicultural management team is free to convene wherever and whenever it makes the most sense. Lenovo has operations hubs in Beijing, Raleigh, NC, Singapore and Paris, a marketing hub in Bangalore, India, and major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh. The company now employs more than 23,000 people worldwide, including 1,700 designers, scientists and engineers, representing a broad collection of nationalities and languages but at the same time working with one unified language and vision: to build the world's most innovative personal computers.
Two Roads to Creating a PC Powerhouse
In 1981, IBM launched its Personal Computing Division which literally invented personal computing with such innovations as the first laptop computer, the precursor to the ThinkkPad notebook, synonymous with innovation and quality.
In 1984, Legend Holdings was founded in China with just 11 computer scientists and $25,000 in cash, with the idea of delivering information technology more rapidly to consumers and businesses in China.
In 2003, Legend began marketing its products under the Lenovo brand, melding the "Le" from Legend with "novo," the Latin word for "new." It officially changed its company name from Legend to Lenovo a year later.
In 2005, Lenovo Group's acquisition of IBM's PC division essentially combined the market strength of Lenovo in China and elsewhere in Asia among consumers with IBM's leadership position in Europe and North America among business PC users.
In 2007, Lenovo launches the IdeaPad line of consumer-branded PC products and drops the use of the IBM logo on all its products two years ahead of schedule.
Lenovo boasts extraordinary research capabilities. Its R&D centers in China, Japan and the U.S. have produced some of the world's most important advances in PC technology, ranging from the original "bento box" PC notebook design in 1992 to the 2008 launch of the innovative ThinkPad X300 "Kodachi," heralded as one of the world's lightest, thinnest and most innovative full-featured notebook PC's ever.
The company is rich in talent, with teams that have won hundreds of technology and design awards – including more than 2,000 patents – and introduced many industry firsts:
a.. TrackPoint pointing device ("the little red button")
b.. ThinkPad design - one of the industry's most silent PCs VeriFace (Lenovo's face recognition technology that creates a digital map that becomes the system's password).
The ultimate goal of Lenovo's R&D team is to improve the overall experience of PC ownership, while driving down the cost of ownership.
Great Minds (Executives)
Lenovo and IBM have a strategic alliance designed to provide a best-in-class experience for enterprise customers. The companies have entered into significant, long-term agreements that give customers preferred access to IBM's world-class customer service organization and global financing offerings, and that enable Lenovo to take advantage of IBM's powerful worldwide distribution and sales network. Lenovo's customers are able to count on the entire IBM team – including sales, services and financing – for access to IBM's legendary end-to-end IT solutions. As part of a five-year commitment, IBM will also provide Lenovo with warranty services and offer Lenovo customers leasing and financing arrangements. Through this long-term relationship, customers will receive the best products with the lowest total-cost-of-ownership.
LENOVO: Our Commitment
Our Commitment to Corporate Citizenship (CSR). Lenovo is committed to being a responsible and active corporate citizen, consistently working to improve its business while contributing to the betterment of our local communities, the environment and society overall.
Lenovo practices corporate citizenship in many ways:
a.. Product quality and safety: Lenovo is focused on the safety of our products throughout their entire lifecycle, from manufacturing, transportation and installation to use, service and disposal.
b.. Safe and Healthy Workplaces: Lenovo's people are its greatest asset. In addition to meeting the legal requirements of the countries in which we do business, we ensure our employees have safe equipment and facilities; offer competitive compensation packages; and support stringent voluntary workplace safety standards.
c.. The Highest Ethical Standards: Lenovo is committed to the highest standards of integrity and responsibility, including respecting and protecting intellectual property. We provide guidance to every employee on a wide range of issues concerning ethical business practices, securities trading, health and safety, and compliance with government regulations.
d.. Concern for the environment: Lenovo is committed to environmental responsibility in all aspects of its business, from product design and supplier selection to manufacturing, facilities management, transportation and logistics and product lifecycle management, including recycling and reuse.
e.. Donating time and resources to philanthropy: Soon after the devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province in May, 2008, nearly 4,000 Lenovo employees made financial donations for disaster relief while hundreds more lined up to donate blood. And, in 2005, the company donated funds to South Asian countries devastated by the tsunami.
Sustainability
Our Values: Our values serve as the foundation of our company and define who we are and how we work. Principle among them are:
a.. Customer service Innovative and entrepreneurial spirit Accuracy and truth-seeking Trustworthiness and integrity
Our Strategy for Success: Worldsourcing
About Worldsourcing
Today's most successful companies are able to quickly capitalize on new ideas from every corner of their operations. They engage the best people from every location and recognize the best contributions and ideas regardless of source or profit center. They sell their products and services wherever profitable markets exist.
Lenovo's adherence to worldsourcing is a strategic outgrowth of today's global economy and enables Lenovo to deliver consistent value to customers worldwide by reacting quickly to local market requirements or changing customer tastes.
Here are some of the key benefits of worldsourcing:
a.. Touches all of our key operations, encompassing manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, talent management, finance and R&D
b.. Makes maximum use of Lenovo's dispersed resources to create the best products in the most efficient and effective way – where and when it makes most sense Recognizes and rewards the best talent and ideas regardless of location with a flexible approach to staffing and distributing company operations and functions
THE ThinkPad T61
Lenovo ThinkPad T61 14.1" Widescreen Notebook
New internal magnesium rollcage on the lid. In the picture above, the blue line represents where the antenna is housed in the screen area. 1. Add airvents at bottom 2. Add airvents under PCMCIA 3. Enlarge air vents
Software shows you how much battery life turning off each feature will give you.
The ThinkPad T61 and ThinkPad R61 notebooks were today announced by Lenovo. Both notebooks will incorporate the new Santa Rosa Intel platform and be initially offered in widescreen format. Following are some thoughts based on a hands-on look at these systems.
The ThinkPad T61 is the evolution of the highly popular Lenovo ThinkPad T60 (see review of ThinkPad T60). The T61 will initially be offered in widescreen format only, which is a deviation of the usual initial launch of a standard screen format for the ThinkPad line. SnapperMail 2.1 is good software.
I had a chance to get some hands on time with the T61 recently and, based on initial impressions, the T61 is all I had hoped for in seeing an update to the T60. Some of the more exciting things regarding the T61 are the following:
a.. The T61 now offers a built-in 4-in-1 media card reader, folks with PDAs and cameras that use SD, XD or MemoryStick flash cards can rejoice (I know I am)
b.. The lid has been updated and improved in two ways:
a.. The lid has an internal magnesium roll cage for extra protection when pressure is applied from above (think notebook in backpack) or in a drop situation
b.. The external lid material now uses a high-tech plastic composite material so that radio waves used in wireless communication get better penetration to the internally housed antennas and thereby the notebook gets longer wireless range. Furthermore, Lenovo can now offer built-in WWAN without the need for adding the "bump" on the side of the lid that was required for the WWAN antenna in the past. The new material also aids in reducing noise produced by the LCD.
c.. Integrated web-camera option is now available, though not a "business" feature it could be handy for some
d.. Full disk encryption (FDE) -- obviously more geared towards business users
e.. Improved cooling ability, this is the coolest running ThinkPad ever (despite the fact Santa Rosa runs warmer than just about any previous Intel mobile processor).
f.. Lenovo product designers have added a new cooling device and a lot more air vents on both the bottom and front edge. Since heat is reduced, the fan will run less often and therefore noise is reduced as well! (Photo above)
g.. New Intel Santa Rosa Processor and chipset. The Intel Santa Rosa platform (GM/PM 965 chipset) now offers an 800MHz FSB and up to 4MB memory cache on the processor for faster retrieval of computer instructions -- especially handy for encoding video and other CPU intensive processes. Core 2 Duo processors with up to 2.4GHz of clock speed will be offered.
h.. Robson 1GB Intel Turbo Memory card will give big improvements to hard drive performance, this will be especially beneficial for speeding up the bootup time in Windows Vista. This was a feature the Lenovo product designers were particularly excited about.
i.. According to Lenovo the combination of a 5400RPM drive + Intel Turbo Memory = Outperformance of 7200RPM hard drive. Of course, if you want you can get the T61 with a 7200RPM drive and the Intel Turbo Memory for a system that really screams.
j.. New battery management utilities allow you to easily reduce the screen refresh rate, disable radios and bluetooth and the software shows you how much battery life turning off each feature will give you.
k.. 802.11n wireless will be offered via the new Intel wireless chip New trendy ThinkPad logo with white lettering and red dot above the "i". Business buyers can still opt to have the red, green and blue IBM logo on the T61 if they prefer it.
For those that are interested in a morphed look of the ThinkPad T61 showing some of the insides and the way the rollcage is implemented, checkout the following image:Here's A look at the guts of the T61
Following is a wrap-up of the basic specs for the ThinkPad T61:
a.. Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (64-bit) processorsup to 2.4 GHz — T7100, T7300, T7500, T7700
b.. Motherboard Chipset: Intel Santa Rosa 965GM/PM
c.. Hard Drive: Up to 160GB, 5400RPM, Up to 100GB 7200RPM
d.. Memory/RAM: 800MHz speed, Configurable up to 4GB
e.. Screen: 14.1" WXGA and WXGA+
f.. Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M or Intel X3100
g.. Optical Drive: Multi-Burner DVD recordable, DVD-CDRW, Blu-Ray to be offered eventually
h.. Wireless: (802.11 a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.0, WWAN (via Verizon, Vodafone, Cingular)
i.. User Input: Touchpad, Pointing Stick, UltraNav buttons, Fingerprint Scanner
j.. Warranty: 3-years parts and labor, 1-year battery
k.. Dimensions of 14.1" widescreen system: Width: 335 mm (13.2 in) x Depth: 237 mm (9.3 in) x Height: 27.6 to 31.9 mm (1.09 to 1.26 in)
l.. Weight for 14.1" widescreen: As light as 5lb
m.. Ports:
a.. 3 USB 2.0 ports
b.. dock/port replicator
c.. Display-out
d.. IEEE 1394 FireWire
e.. AC adapter port
f.. RJ-11 (Modem)
g.. RJ-45 (Ethernet LAN)
h.. Audio line out for headphone/speakers
i.. Microphone
n.. Slots:
a.. PC card slot (PCMCIA)
b.. 1 ExpressCard 54 slot
c.. 4-in-1 media card reader (optional)
d.. Smart Card Reader (optional)
o.. Buttons:
a.. Power on/off
b.. Volume up/down/mute (3 buttons)
c.. Wireless on/off
d.. ThinkVantage shortcut button (shortcut to system support, security and diagnostics suite)
e.. Battery lock and release
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