My dad is an avid user of his ThinkPad.  Some time ago I got him a 15? T61p on sale and he?s been thrilled with it.  He surfs the web almost nightly while watching Fox News and sometimes doesn?t go to bed until the battery runs down, which thanks to Power Manager, can be a [...]

I have had a lot going on post-CES.  Here is what I am thinking about these days: AC/DC Combo Adapter A few months we switched from the Slim AC/DC combo adapter to the next generation ULTRAslim AC/DC Combo Adapter.  Our team made a lot of improvements. On DC power, you no longer need to carry the brick with [...]

An internal assignment to consider the implications of competitor CES announcements with respect to Lenovo?s future strategy got me thinking about the implications of CES 2010.  As a result, you get an unasked for bonus post. I was really impressed with the maturity and collaboration that went into our three star products of CES 2010.  Though [...]

When I first wrote about SSD technology on this blog about 2 years ago, I mentioned that we could expect to see hybrid SSD/HDD implementations in notebooks where you could use fast SSD flash memory for commonly accessed files and spinning drives for bulk storage. With our just announced Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 and Y560 notebooks, our [...]

Compared to a scant 6 months ago, today Lenovo is awash in All in One PCs.  There is no question that we see this category as a growth area.  For anyone considering an All in One, allow me to present my compact guide to help you choose from our myriad of offerings. For those who have [...]

I was wowed when I played with a prototype of this device.  It is about the slickest piece of hardware I have seen in a very long time.  It is one of those truly innovative products that I want to show off to everyone and makes me proud to be associated with Lenovo.  Don?t underestimate [...]

In my previous post I mentioned that we?d have offerings for those who wanted a ThinkPad in something other than a black, rectangular box.  We have two of them which announced yesterday:  the ThinkPads EDGE and X100e systems. In introducing these systems, we wanted to extend the appeal of ThinkPad while offering something that looks different [...]

I realize that many readers of this blog are first and foremost ThinkPad T Series fans, so how could I not talk about the new T Series first?  Since a lot of information has already leaked out, most of this will not be a surprise, but nonetheless, these new ThinkPads are solid offerings. We just announced [...]

Mark Hopkins has written a nice preview post of CES 2010 over on Lenovo Connections.  I will be joining about 100 of my colleagues at CES starting tomorrow, January 4.  In addition to posts on this blog, I will also be participating in a special Lenovo CES micro site to be unveiled in the next [...]

I am retiring yet another venerable workhorse this week. I first got my IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Gateway in late 2001 and have been using it non-stop ever since.  This was back in the heady days of wireless when 802.11b was the hottest thing going, with 802.11a on the horizon.  With my ThinkPad T23 (one [...]