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Lenovo Announces the IdeaPad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the branching-away-from-ibms-old-market dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Marking the start of news releases from this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Lenovo has dropped a major announcement on consumers - the arrival of a new line of notebooks. The IdeaPads will be the consumer-friendly companion to the ThinkPads. The announcement covers three notebooks, the 17" Y710, the 15" Y510, and the 11", 2.4lb U110. The IdeaPads will bring a number of firsts to Lenovo's notebooks, including a SSD upgrade option, dual hard drives (Y710 only), and a 17" notebook."

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  1. Ordinary Motors! Common Oil!!! by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    An apocryphal story claims that when the Japanese started aping the American way of doing things and they use a thesaurus to name their companies. Thus they founded companies with names like Ordinary Motors and Common Oil!

    So, now the Chinese are aping the Japanese method and renamed the thinkpad the ideapad?

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    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
  2. Slasvertisement? by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First slashvertisement for the new year I see. Cool

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    "Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
  3. RON PAUL 2008! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:Where's the Cheap Webpads? by Orange+Crush · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What we need are lightweight little touchtablets running VNC. That weigh a handful of ounce, unfold from 8" to 17", last a week on a charge, and cost under $100. All they have to do is display a remote tappable desktop, with mutable little speakers, maybe bluetooth headphones/keyboards for occasional use.

    Screw that, I want a pony.