17 Sep 09 Thin and Light With Powerful Performance in Latest ThinkPad Laptop

Inspired by Lenovo’s thinnest and lightest full-function laptop, the featherweight ThinkPad X300 , Lenovo engineered its latest laptop, the ThinkPad T400s, to be super-slim at just 21 mm thin¹ and ultra-light starting under 1.8 Kg². The laptop achieves its skinny frame thanks to the thin 14.1-inch LED screen, solid state drive storage and the second generation Top Cover Roll Cage, which Lenovo first introduced in the ThinkPad X300 laptop. The roll cage’s monocoque carbon reinforced fiber, also used in bicycle frames and airplanes, helps keep the laptop extremely light yet surprisingly sturdy. With this design the laptop weighs nearly 20 percent less than its Thinkpad T400 predecessor, also making it much thinner and lighter than the Dell E6400 and HP 6930P laptops.

We’ve created products like our ThinkPad T400s laptop to bring thin and light computing to mainstream corporate users,” said Peter Hortensius, senior vice president, ThinkPad, Lenovo. “We’ve applied thoughtful design in balancing the need for greater portability with strong performance and usability.”

Loaded for Performance
The ThinkPad T Series is comprised of Lenovo’s most powerful and performance-heavy laptops. The ThinkPad T400s laptop allows users to enjoy the best of both worlds – thin and light mobility without sacrificing the powerful performance they need.

The laptop comes with:

· Choices of Intel® 2.53 GHz Core™2Duo processors (standard voltage) and graphics
· Choices of solid state drive storage up to 128 GB or 250 GB hard drive storage
· 9.5 mm slim DVD burner or Blu-Ray player
· Ethernet, WiFi and optional WWAN³ and Bluetooth
· 34mm Express Card slot or 5-in-1 multimedia card reader
· Nearly six hours of battery life
· Supports up to two monitors via a Display Port and VGA connector
· Meets the Energy Star 5.0 criteria for energy efficiency
· Built-in USB/eSATA port

Lenovo is also introducing three new options for ThinkPad T400s laptop users who want to expand their work space by connecting to other peripherals such as mice and keyboards, printers and monitors. The ThinkPad Port Replicator Series 3, ThinkPad Mini-Dock Series 3 and ThinkPad Mini Dock Plus 3 feature new slim and sleek footprints, provide one-step “rip and go” docking and include a range of multi-monitor support while meeting a variety of needs including support for USB, Display Port and eSATA.

Because more people are using PC’s for unified communications at the office, at home or on the road, Lenovo optimized its latest laptop to make voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) calls simple. There are three main ingredients for a high quality VOIP experience – the quality of the video, the quality of the audio and the quality of the network connection. For a great video experience, Lenovo equipped the laptop with a two megapixel camera for better quality images and to help in low lighting conditions. Lenovo also pumped up the speaker volume more than two times greater than audio levels on the ThinkPad T400 laptop and added a convenient toggle switch at the top of the keyboard to increase and decrease volume. A similar feature can be found on the steeringwheel of sports cars. Finally, Lenovo’s range of connectivity options give uses flexibility in how they want to connect online.

Pricing and Availability⁴
The ThinkPad T400s laptop is available beginning immediately through Lenovo business partners and www.lenovo.com. Pricing details available on request. The ThinkPad Port Replicator Series 3, Mini Dock Series 3 and Mini Dock Plus Series 3 will be also available immediately.

About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is dedicated to building exceptionally engineered personal computers. Lenovo’s business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see www.lenovo.com.