Lenovo sticks to the high end

March 25, 2008 10:21 AM PDT – Posted by Jonathan Skillings
Lenovo X300

Outside China, where it has home field advantage, Lenovo is in no rush to sell volumes of low-end PCs. For its export markets, the company plans to concentrate for some time to come on hawking its high-end models like the newly introduced, and roughly MacBook Air-skinny, X300 notebook--those products that it says show "the spirit of innovation." That thinking will also determine how and when Lenovo might come out with a laptop based on Intel's Atom processor.

Read more at InfoWorld: "Q&A: Lenovo takes the high-end road"

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by montex66 March 26, 2008 12:49 AM PDT
Look! A laptop small and thin enough to fit into a standard size business envelope! Amazing! What an innovative marketing campaign. Why hasn't anyone thought to do this before?
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by mishmash0101 March 27, 2008 3:12 PM PDT
More so, does anyone remember the original Sony VAIO 505? The AirBook is just a repeat of that super-thin laptop with a larger screen.

Oh wait, that's already been do too! Anyone remember the Toshiba Portege R100? That one had a 12" screen (the airbook has 13") but the Toshiba was thinner (0.65" for the Toshiba versus 0.76" for the Apple). Neither the Toshiba or the Apple has a DVD/CDR drive.

Can someone tell me the big deal about the AirBook?
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by tatianahunt April 16, 2008 6:34 AM PDT
I have bought a notebook a few weeks ago, and it has 4 gb of op. mem. But stupid windows that was in set detect only 3 gb. (x32 Windows home edition) And it?s absolutely wrong marketing.
So I have found a new windows x64 that do not need license here http://fileshunt.com also I ve found a social project for megaupload - http://filesfinds.com
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