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Lenovo Bringing Chromebook ThinkPads For Education To K-12 Schools Starting February 26

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Lenovo announced today that it will be introducing a special version of its ThinkPad X131e, an education-focused notebook, running Google’s Chrome OS, ZDNet’s James Kendrick reports. The Chromebook will be sold exclusively to the education market, and the K-12 segment in particular, beginning February 26 via special bid for volume subscription ordering through schools.

The Chromebook is a version of the existing X131e, which runs Windows and which Lenovo already sells to the education market, but running Google’s lightweight OS. It’ll manage an entire school day’s worth of work on its 6-cell battery, the company claims, with a 1366×768 resolution screen, Intel processor and 4-pound body weight. The company also said that it will be making the new Chromebooks available with customization options designed to help schools configure them to suit their specific needs, Kendrick reports.

Unlike other Chromebooks already on the market, the ThinkPad X131e has a degree of ruggedization that should help it better withstand the rigors of being lugged around and used by younger children. Google has promoted the Chromebook as particularly well suited to classroom adoption, and even ran a program discounting the Series 5 from Samsung to $ 99 during the 2012 holiday season to try to encourage its adoption.

This is a definite win for Google, which gets to capitalize on Lenovo’s brand to help it further the Chromebook cause, specifically in education where it clearly wants more mindshare. And for Lenovo, it’s another way to attach a market it wants to get into in a bad way. Back in August, Lenovo North America VP and General Manager spoke to Bloomberg about how the company wants to take over Dell’s strong position in the education market, and he said at the time that his company can do so with agressive pricing and “the right products.” A Chromebook is another attack vector for challenging Dell, one that could potentially allow for considerable pricing advantages, since Chrome OS doesn’t carry the hefty licensing fees of Microsoft’s Windows.

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Lenovo Bringing Chromebook ThinkPads For Education To K-12 Schools Starting February 26

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Author: Brandon Zimmerman

Lenovo announced today that it will be introducing a special version of its ThinkPad X131e, an education-focused notebook, running Google’s Chrome OS, ZDNet’s James Kendrick reports. The Chromebook will be sold exclusively to the education market, and the K-12 segment in particular, beginning February 26 via special bid for volume subscription ordering through schools.

The Chromebook is a version of the existing X131e, which runs Windows and which Lenovo already sells to the education market, but running Google’s lightweight OS. It’ll manage an entire school day’s worth of work on its 6-cell battery, the company claims, with a 1366×768 resolution screen, Intel processor and 4-pound body weight. The company also said that it will be making the new Chromebooks available with customization options designed to help schools configure them to suit their specific needs, Kendrick reports.

Unlike other Chromebooks already on the market, the ThinkPad X131e has a degree of ruggedization that should help it better withstand the rigors of being lugged around and used by younger children. Google has promoted the Chromebook as particularly well suited to classroom adoption, and even ran a program discounting the Series 5 from Samsung to $ 99 during the 2012 holiday season to try to encourage its adoption.

This is a definite win for Google, which gets to capitalize on Lenovo’s brand to help it further the Chromebook cause, specifically in education where it clearly wants more mindshare. And for Lenovo, it’s another way to attach a market it wants to get into in a bad way. Back in August, Lenovo North America VP and General Manager spoke to Bloomberg about how the company wants to take over Dell’s strong position in the education market, and he said at the time that his company can do so with agressive pricing and “the right products.” A Chromebook is another attack vector for challenging Dell, one that could potentially allow for considerable pricing advantages, since Chrome OS doesn’t carry the hefty licensing fees of Microsoft’s Windows.

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90 Seconds on The Verge: LG Nexus, ThinkPads, and Steve Jobs

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Author: James Cliff

David 90 Seconds

“So glad of this as they I cannot be, / Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing / At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book, / For yet ere supper-time must I perform / Much business appertaining.”

[Exit]

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Lenovo Mobile Access bringing contract free broadband to ThinkPads in US and Europe

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Author: Stefanie Jenkins

Tired of fussing with touchy phone tethers, expensive MiFi devices and spotty hotspots? Lenovo feels your pain, and wants to take the guesswork out of getting an internet connection when you need it. Say hello to Lenovo Mobile Access, your dongle-free destination for on-the-go broadband — assuming you’re rocking a Lenovo rig with the right hardware, of course. In partnership with Macheen, Lenovo is serving up no-contract broadband access to owners of select ThinkPad laptops. Just need a few minutes to check your email? That’ll be $ 2 — as long as you keep it under 30 minutes and 30MB. Full day passes (capped at 200MB of usage) are available for $ 9, and monthly plans (at both 2GB and 6GB) are on the way. 3G equipped ThinkPads will be able to access the service in the United States, UK, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands on a single SIM, though pricing may vary by location. Looking for the official skinny? Skip on past the break for a pair of official press releases.

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Lenovo Mobile Access bringing contract free broadband to ThinkPads in US and Europe originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sixty million ThinkPads sold to date, Lenovo updates the T Series with NVIDIA Optimus in celebration

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Author: Rod Sutherland

Boy, have we covered scores of ThinkPad laptops in the last few years — everything from the introduction of the X300 to the first dualscreen W700 workstation to the older R50e that left unforgettable burn marks in a mattress have graced our internet pages. We apologize for getting all nostalgic, but hearing that sales of ThinkPad laptops will surpass 60 million this month just gets us all sappy. Actually, Lenovo’s estimating that 14 ThinkPad laptops are sold every 60 seconds — it’s certainly impressive, but obviously the history of the company’s business laptops must go onward and upward. And the updated T Series is a step in that direction. Starting today, the T410, T410s and T510 will have an NVIDIA NVS 3100M GPU option and rely on Optimus to take care of the dynamically switching between the integrated and discrete graphics. While we’re a bit bummed they’re not using the newest 400M Series, the rigs are the first with Optimus to be able to dock and then drive four simultaneous displays. All T Series models are available with Core i5 CPU options and a selection of hard drives / SSD options — the T410 / T510 will start at $ 1,299 and the thinner T410s at $ 1,849. We guess this is where we raise our coffee mugs and say, “Here’s to the next 60 mil, Lenovo!”

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Lenovo ThinkPads Get Eco-Friendly Facelift With L Series [Thinkpad]

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Author: Alexander McQueen

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While Earth Day’s not until later this week—but you’ve already got that circled in your hemp calendar, right?—Lenovo’s celebrating early with their new ThinkPad L Series: 14- and 15-inch notebooks that contain more recycled material than any other. More »

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