Technology by Stephanie M. Roy MAY 2010 ISSUE 71
LENOVO THINKPAD Performance, Productivity & Portability
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et’s face it, the world both personal and professional has gone the way of the laptop. They’ve gotten smaller, thinner and more personalized than ever. Emailing photos of your new apartment to your mother while sipping a mocha latte at your neighborhood coffee shop wouldn’t be possible without these portable wonders of technology. As companies downsize, office space shrinks, and more professionals opt to work from home, laptops are becoming workstations that efficiently manage projects and assignments from wherever we are. At the start of 2010, Lenovo introduced four new ThinkPad Laptops that offer business professionals higher levels of performance and productivity from their personal computers. The T410s, T410, T510 and W510 are equipped with Intel® Core™ processors, which provide users with faster multi-tasking abilities and greater manageability, especially for IT departments.
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The new ThinkPads were designed for the person on the go. As select models have 22-hour battery lives, layovers in airports and long journeys shouldn’t affect productivity. As for accessibility, the laptops offer optional 3G connectivity with Qualcomm Gobi 2000 technology. International deployments within corporations are simplified as businesses may standardize a single hardware platform that can be deployed globally. The T410s boasts a thin and light design, which makes it extremely portable. The W510 mobile workstation is ideal for professionals working with data and graphics, computer aided design and photography. More powerful than before, it now boasts four memory slots for up to 16 GB of space and quad core processors. The T410 and T510 complement more mainstream business users. ThinkPads are efficient for work in and outside the office. A powered USB port comes on all the new PCs, which can be used to charge MP3 players, phones and other devices. Lenovo ThinkPads are available through business partners. For more information, visit www.lenovo.com/smb/th
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