Details surface for future ThinkPads: X200, SL, T and R series
By Darren Murph 
posted June 8th 2008 9:40PM
posted June 8th 2008 9:40PM
- 12-inch WXGA panel
- 45nm Core 2 Duo CPUs up to 2.4GHz
- Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology
- SSDs up to 64GB
- WiMAX / WWAN / GPS / WiFi / UWB / Bluetooth
- Magnesium alloy top and bottom covers
- 9.6-hours of battery life on the 9-cell pack
- DDR3 RAM
- 1.3-megapixel camera
- DisplayPort connector
- 3 USB ports
- Starts at 2.93 pounds
Highlights of ThinkPad SL Series:
- SL300 / SL400 / SL500 models
- 13.3-inch / 14.1-inch / 15.4-inch WXGA panels (SL500 has WSXGA+ option)
- Core 2 Duo processors
- Integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD or discrete NVIDIA GeForce 9300 graphics
- ExpressCard / FireWire / 3+ USB ports
- Optional Blu-ray drive
- WWAN / WiMAX / WiFi / Bluetooth / GPS
- T400 / T500 models
- 14-inch / 15-inch panels
- Intel Centrino 2 with vPro up to 2.8GHz
- Optional 64GB SSD / 320GB HDD
- 512MB ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 graphics
- DDR3 RAM
- WWAN / WiMAX / WiFi / Bluetooth
- 14.1-inch R400 / 15.4-inch R500 models
- Montevina Penryn Core 2 Duo processors
- Up to 320GB HDD
- Up to 4GB DDR3 RAM
- Integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD or discrete ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 graphics
- 3 USB / FireWire / ExpressCard / VGA
[Thanks, Timothy]
when I first started reading your comment I was going to say "have you ever heard anyone say linux was 'crappy, bloated, buggy'"
but then you mentioned linux at the end...
I run my laptop with a small win XP partition for running windows only software and games, then the rest is for Ubuntu or Fedora, depending on my mood when I periodically upgrade.
I'm feeling the need to smash your head with a brick.
& I /own/ a mac...
@Velorium:
me too
@Shenzhov - you can put linux on yourself (apparently its free!!!)
or you can hack os x on, its quite easy.
and I don't get what you mean by drm-laden.
The only things that typically don't work when putting OSX on a Lenovo is the sound and maybe the WiFi with an Intel chipset. Other than that, multiboot away!
Guess what vPro is? Yup, more DRM.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/Intels-new-vPro-two-steps-forward-for-x86-and-for-DRM-andor-P2P.ars/2
Great post!
So any word on the new tablet? Maybe X200T?
yes please where is our Lenovo tablet news? (/signed)
I hope the x62 (or whatever they are going to call it) is still the same formfactor as the x61, and don't go wide screen.
Tablet's coming a few months after all of these. We're planning a big T400 order for fall, and were told new tablets would not be available, so we're doing X61t's instead.
Wow, that WiMax is gonna come in REAL useful *roll eyes*
Hey, if you're buying for the future...
I'm sure it will be fairly widespread well within any of these laptops' reasonable life span.
Suuuuuure it will, if you keep laptops for 7-10 years
Hey, I'm not saying it's going to be available in Poke-in-the-ass, Montana; but most major cities should have it within 2-3 years from Sprint alone.
This might be useful if it runs Linux well or we wait until Windows 7 comes out, assuming it actually is an advance.
Hm.
12" ... too big. I want an 8" screen, no bigger.
No pivot touchscreen laptop/tablet version? meh. Maybe a 12" screen would be ok if it had this, and a virtual thumb keyboard (like the samsung Q1).
And what about vendor supported Ubuntu? (like, drivers and such for that nice wireless networking stuff, WiMAX, WWAN, Bluetooth, etc.)
I don't see a lot to get excited about here.
I had a thinkpad. Always hated the blue enter key. Why is it blue?!
With a screw driver, some white-out, a small stencil with the word 'enter' on it, and http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/browse/processRequest.do?requestURI=processProductsCatalog&categoryId=377320&BP=8110&sku=73%2f53821&cm_mmc=NXTG-_-Art%20Supplies-_-Spray%20Paint-_-Krylon%20Interior%2fExterior%20Spray%20Paints%20-%20Semi-Flat%20Black , you can fix that in about 2 hours.
Now that's much a better design than the X300.
9.6 hours? even if they've overshot the estimate by 50%, that's still a hell of a long ass time.
gimme gimme gimme
I love my thinkpads but their displays are crap. Hopefully these LED screens will be much better.
When are they coming out?
Centrino 2 is due out mid July.
You'd think these would be available then....but I am thinking September is a good bet.
Holy cow... I think I might actually be willing to pay up to 2k for this thing. I currently have the HPtx1000z Tablet PC, so I'd lose the touch-screen capabilities if I got this one. Come to think of it, I don't even use the touch-screen often, so this would definitely be a step up. =)
-Blade Genexis
Thinkpad: Still ugly as hell
Or still awesome looking. Eye of the beholder.
Chuck Norris says "awesome looking", you lose.
Chuck Norris says "awesome looking", you lose.
Chuck Norris says "awesome looking", you lose.
...and low resale value - super!
Try doing some research, that's not at all true.
Lenovo needs to use higher quality panels for their screens before I buy one.
Wait a minute, so the X200 with the 6 cell gets up to 8.8 hours and with the 9 cell, only 9.6 hours? Its a 50% increase and less than an hours extra life?
Am I missing something here!?
I think it's because they have started to mix li-po and normal li-ion batteries in a single battery, making it harder to judge what's actually "one cell". But yes, it doesn't make much sense.
Wow those are some great stats, lets hope the price doesn't kill it
Those laptops looks great, especially the R500 (well except for the graphics part, which will certainly retain some people to buy it...)
And furthermore, the laptop doesn't seems a lot expansive (compared to others Montevina laptop) : http://www5.fsa.ulaval.ca/sgc/servicesressources/environnementtechnologique/environnementulysse/ordinateurportatifrecommandefsa/pid/12270 (in french)
$1000 for a P8400 (2.26GHz), 2Go 1066MHz DDR3 RAM, 160Go SATA 5400 RPM, 15.4" WXGA screen. I suppose that with a better processor (the P one at 2.53GHz), a faster hard drive, and a WSXGA+ screen it must cost around $1500 ?
Does a 12" screen mean its a non widescreen?
And is it non glossy?
If would be true, and the battery life would be remotely accurate, then I WANT!!!!!!111!!!eleven!!1!
It's widescreen from now on, get used to it. Most people prefer widescreen and I can see why since it gives more space for a proper keyboard and are better for viewing movies. Lenovo can't fight the tide, every panel manufacturer out there is moving away from the 4:3-format.
I was a bit disappointed that the T-series didn't come with the new quad core mobile chipset. The R-series were always too heavy and bulky for my liking.
Not consumer orientated - but orientated towards SMBs who dont know what the hell they are buying.
Sadly the day we feared has come, covering a generic piece of crap in black plastic and sticking a ThinkPad logo on it does not make it a ThinkPad.
yaaay DisplayPort \o/
.....i hope it will be available on the 12" model
damn these look to be good specs
well lenovo, good job taking over IBM Commercial
this is really good though cause we now know that apple is gonna match if not top this because of what happend to the MBA
yes
but the x200 and the t do look really nice
why cant they plate the things with aluminum or titanium cause magnesium isnt cool
how bout something strange like selenium or iridium or eistienium
that would be coooooooooool
So is this X200 basically the next X series laptop after x60/61?
There will be no x70orx80?
july 15
http://www.law2.byu.edu/admissions/laptop.php