News & Reviews:   Lenovo ThinkPad

When it comes to laptops, Lenovo is well-known for its business models. The ThinkPad family has reliable laptops that are often used by corporate folks, and it's just grown bigger at CES 2022. Let's take a look at what the new ThinkPad X1 and Think Z models offer.

After the cancellation of MWC 2020 last year, this year’s MWC 2021 began with a number of innovations including being virtual and utilizing technology to implement COVID 19 safety measures. Despite this, we were able to easily and virtually attend all the keynotes and events accordingly following the MWC 2021 theme of Connected Impact. 

Lenovo has recently announced they had developed a new patent-pending, Low Temperature Solder (LTS) process to improve PC manufacturing while conserving energy and increasing reliability. This will drastically reduce carbon emissions by an estimate of 35%, as well as improving power consumption and reduce heat thru an improved tin-based solder process which replaces the older lead-based process. This new manufacturing process can be universally applied to all electronics manufacturing that involves printed circuit boards, with no cost or performance impact to customers.

More 8-inch touchscreen tablets running Windows 8.1 are coming and one of the most recent is the Lenovo ThinkPad 8 which is aimed at the business crowd more than the common consumer. This means more premium features and tech specs which include an 8.3-inch screen with full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, a metal body, a micro HDMI port, an 8MP rear camera wih flash and the option to add 4G LTE. The tablet runs an Intel Z3770 processor and chipset with 2GB of RAM and 128GB storage. The resulting price is still quite affordable at $399 (RM1313). While there isn't any mention of business-class features like Intel vPro it does have Intel Anti-theft technology in place but if you're looking for a bit more security expect to have to set it up yourself with a third-party app. No news on Malaysia release dates but we should see it reach Malaysia in 2014.