Lenovo is busting out a bevy of new notebooks and desktops today in the Asia Pacific realm. Its Y-series laptops and Q / H-series desktops were unveiled, each diverting from the traditional paths previously taken on (the admittedly bland)
IBM-branded counterparts. The yet-to-be-priced 13-inch widescreen Y300 touts discrete NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 graphics, a built-in webcam that automatically recognizes its owners face to log them in, and weights just 4.85 pounds. The Y400 maintains the "same design theme" on the Y300, but packs a 14-inch LCD, a "flush-mounted" touchpad, and swaps in a two-watt "subwoofer" for the uber-snazzy webcam. On the desktop side, the Q lineup starts at $1,017 and offers a stylish, trendy design, detachable swivel webcam, multimedia jog dial, tower speakers, ATi Radeon X1300 graphics card, VGA / S-Video outputs,
Sonic Gear HS555 headset, and an optional 19- or 20-inch LCD. If you're scouting a design-focused PC on the cheap, the H series hits at just $699, offers an optional 17- or 19-inch widescreen display, touts an "
anti-bacterial keyboard," and boasts its ability to be a "basic, family-friendly computing system." While Levovo certainly spruced up its latest offerings, warranty lengths were slashed right along with prices (just 30 days of free phone support and one-year of coverage), and while the desktop systems will begin shipping anytime, the fancy new notebooks won't hit shelves until mid-December.
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posted November 15th 2006 6:41PM
Bland rules bitches! The Y Series looks like every other craptastic Toshiba, Fujitsu, Vaio out there. I still stick with the T-Series, at least until they blow that too. (I all ready noticed things I didn't like from purchasing T43's to T60's.
I love my T60, running ubuntu 6.10 right now.. everything works great. i have used a t42 before and i do notice that the hinges on the T60 are not as stiff as the T42 but everything else is pretty much the same.. well the mouse buttons are not as squishy as the T42. but w/e for 1200 dollars it was the best notebook i could buy.
I wonder what Lenovo will do after they fill the alphabet with uninspired computers.