BANGALORE, INDIA: Lenovo has launched a new consumer PC brand - "Idea" in India. The new consumer-oriented IdeaPad notebooks and IdeaCentre desktops will complement Lenovo's business-oriented ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops. The Idea range has been engineered for the best user experience with cutting edge capabilities, trendsetting design, and built-in peace of mind.
The Idea range makes a bold design statement with frameless screens, touch-sensitive control surfaces and unique textures. It combines cutting-edge and easy-to-use technologies such as face recognition, Dolby Home Theater surround sound and dedicated gaming controls. The range also comes with Lenovo's legacy of unmatched engineering and built-in peace of mind with features such as One Key Recovery, outstanding durability, the legendary ThinkPad inspired keyboard and an extended battery management feature to customize user-specific battery usage patterns, antibacterial keyboards.
IdeaPad Notebooks
The IdeaPad line delivers notebooks designed for a variety of lifestyles with features integrated across the line such as:
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Convenient log-in and authentication: Users can make their face their password with VeriFace Face Recognition, a new, convenient way to log into the PC and a host of applications. The combination of the VeriFace software and an embedded camera can recognize a user's face for log-in and help eliminate the need to remember passwords.
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Fully-loaded entertainment and multimedia: The notebooks are equipped with 4 speakers and a subwoofer creating the Dolby® Home Theater, which delivers exceptional surround sound for movies, videos, music and games and offers a cinema-style experience for listeners through the PCs multiple speakers (most models have five speakers). Lenovo's Multimedia Control Center provides an excellent multimedia experience with easy-to-use software to play movies, listen to music and view photos. With touch sensitive controls, users can quickly select among multimedia choices, volume and equalizer.
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Distinctive look and design: Lenovo notebooks set the trend for stylish design in blue, red or black and with smooth, weave or raised textured top covers. Frameless screens provide a unique viewing experience in addition to an impact-resistance screen.
In addition to these shared innovations, each notebook offers a number of extra features intended to maximize the experience that the notebooks were designed for, such as:
IdeaPad Y710 - For gaming enthusiasts
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17-inch widescreen notebook for users who desire a high level of performance for entertainment
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Game Zone includes enlarged directional buttons for enhanced game play, four user-customizable buttons
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Halo Lighting - With this a user can set the notebook to emit a different color light from the side bezel and Lenovo logo on the front of the notebook
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Secondary display showing system information such as CPU speed
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Includes a performance control switch with Turbo mode for maximum power, including CPU over clocking, and quiet mode for energy savings
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Hot-swap with 2 hard drives to easily store and transfer data
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Distinctively designed with a smooth blue- metallic finish
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Equipped with Intel Centrino processor technology, ATI graphics, WLAN connectivity, five speakers including a subwoofer
IdeaPad Y510 - The ultimate entertainer
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All-in-one 15.4-inch widescreen notebook
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Dolby 4.1 Home Theater speaker system for enhanced sound output and theatre experience
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Sleek touch-sensitive pad to control the various multimedia features are accessed and controlled
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In-built TV tuner card helps ensure instant television connectivity accentuating the multimedia experience
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Lenovo breaks away from the typical gloss and matt finish and presents a progressively-styled light weave texture for a classy, elegant look in black, textured, linen-like top cover
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Latest Veriface face recognition software that gives users a convenient and secure way to log on to the PC
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One Key Recovery to restore factory preload settings, to provide consumers with a peaceful ownership experience
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The Y510's keyboard offers outstanding feel and durability, inspired by the legendary ThinkPad keyboard, and an extended battery management feature to customize user-specific battery usage patterns
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Equipped with Intel Centrino processor technology, integrated graphics, WLAN connectivity, five speakers including a subwoofer, an integrated camera, battery life indicator and a DVD-RW optical drive
IdeaPad U110 - CES Best of 2008, Las Vegas
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An ultraportable 11-inch widescreen notebook PC
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Weighs only 1.05 kg and is 0.7 inches deep
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The textured design embedded in its red aluminum alloy top cover blends style and durability
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Extensive computing time with an additional battery
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Equipped with Active Protection System, an air-bag like device that parks the hard drive to help protect data during a fall
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11.1" back lit LED display
IdeaCentre K200 Desktops - The ideal PC for families
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Lenovo's Bright Vision for eyesight protection
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Also engineered with an anti-bacterial keyboard which uses special materials on the surface of the keys to restrain bacterial growth
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Equipped with Card Reader Support and Dual tone color
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Incorporates Lenovo's vantage technology along with one-key recovery, one-key antivirus, file management and installing drivers and software
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Tool free design and Dust free design
IdeaCentre Q200 Desktops - Living room digital performance PC
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IdeaCentre Q200 is a living room digital performance PC with a "new form" or "new image"
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Its slim design and style is based on an absolute harmony of straight lines and pure colors underlying the visible world and takes inspiration from the Artist Piet Mondrian
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Boasts of reliability and high quality
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Incorporates Lenovo's vantage technology along with one-key recovery, one-key antivirus, file management and installing drivers and software
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Lenovo's Bright Vision for eyesight protection
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Vista remote control