racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

Lenovo Philippines is prepared to hit it big next year as far as offering more ground-breaking and inventive products and technologies is concerned. This is in line with the significantly higher market share and sales in the market of Lenovo desktops and laptops.

Vicky Agorilla, Lenovo Philippines country general manager, shared during the launch of new computers that 2010 is a big year for them. In figures, this translates to the overall number of sold ThinkPad reaching 60 million.

The launch of new high-quality products is just the beginning of the long-term mission of the world’s 4th largest selling PC vendor to provide what customers deserve to have.

The U260, a recent addition to the IdeaPad U series of Lenovo, is the first 12.5 inch ultraportable consumer laptop in the world. The ThinkCentre M70z and M80, on the other hand, are the latest desktops offered by Lenovo.

[via Infochat News]

My first notebook computer was a Thinkpad, and so reading this post on Yugatech made me wax nostalgic. It’s not that Lenovo hasn’t been releasing Thinkpads since it acquired the brand from IBM. But what I find interesting are the form factor and price of the latest Edge and x100e series.

Yugatech cites the x100e to have the following specs:

AMD Athlon Neo single and dual core processors or a Turion dual core. It comes in an 11.6″ form factor, a multi-touch trackpad. Aside from black, it’s also available in color red. WiFi 802.11n is standard but Bluetooth and 3G is optional.

The retail price of PhP 28,990 is particularly attractive, I think. Thinkpads used to be quite expensive (think PhP 100,000 plus expensive). I guess with the popularity of smaller, inexpensive computers, they need to compete. Thinkpads are, after all, geared toward the business market rather than the consumer market. Maybe that’s why I’m so attracted to it.