Lenovo in the news

6 June 2005

Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet
By Cisco Cheng (PC Magazine)
Rumors were running rampant when it came to guessing which vendor would be next to dip its toes in the rather tepid waters of the tablet market. Some said Apple, others Dell. It turns out that Lenovo/IBM beat them to it. The new ThinkPad X41 Tablet ($1,899 direct) is the lightest convertible on the market, and is perfectly positioned to help bring tablets into the mainstream. For these reasons and more, it's our new Editors' Choice, hands down, for convertible tablets.
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9 May 2005

Lenovo and IBM: East Meets West, Big-Time
By Steve Hamm (Business Week)
Lenovo's deal for IBM's PC unit led to a merger of talent — and a threat to Dell. The date was Apr. 20, 2004. The setting: the offices of Legend Holdings Ltd. in Beijing. And the event was something akin to a courtroom trial, in which the proposed purchase of IBM's PC division by Legend subsidiary Lenovo Group Ltd. hung in the balance. The judge and jury — Legend's directors, including co-founder Liu Chuanzhi — had gathered in a windowless conference room on the 10th floor of company headquarters to grill Lenovo's execs...
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2 May 2005

Lenovo + IBM = Cool new hardware for the US Market
By Rob Enderle (Designtechnica)
One of the big concerns surrounding Chinese goods is the impression that the quality is sub-standard. Walking around the streets of Beijing, you can see how that impression is generated by the knock-off products sold there. If you weren’t an expert, you could easily be taken by a sub-standard product in an attractive package. For instance, I was able to buy...
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