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New ThinkPad Goes Widescreen |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
One of the last bastions of 4:3 aspect ratio displays has
succumbed to customers demand and economic reality today with Lenovo announcing
its latest edition to the ThinkPad range with a widescreen display.
The ThinkPad T Series is unashamedly corporate, but the
range now sports what is the company's first-ever 15.4-inch widescreen display.
Just a week ago we were reporting the latest market
statistics from DisplaySearch indicated the widescreen format had all but
taken over the laptop world. Now it seems that migration is all but complete
with one of the last bastions of old-world screen ratios now being phased out.
Notebook makers initially became interested in widescreen displays
because you can cut more of them form an LCD sheet than you can with a 4:3
display. Higher yield per substrate means lower prices and higher margins. IT
also made sense to customers who were becoming more interested in watching multimedia
on their notebooks following the inclusion of DVD players as standard and the
rising availability of downloadable content.
The all this began in the consumer segment will soon be
forgotten as widescreen becomes standard issue for laptops from all makers.
Dusi, executive director for marketing, Lenovo Notebook
Business Unit says that "As the widescreen PC's popularity spills over from the
consumer market to business customers, the new ThinkPad T60 widescreen is
giving users more choices."
See it's not just about DVDs. Business travellers will benefit
from the new form factor says the company. The 15.4-inch ThinkPad T60
widescreen display is shorter in height than a 15-inch ThinkPad T60 standard
display, allowing frequent flyers to gain more space between the open
widescreen and backrest in front of them, says Lenovo.
Hey and it makes it easier to read a spreadsheet too (four
more columns). Lenovo points out that you can actually get 30 percent more data
on the screen with the T60's new WXGA than either today's current 14.1-inch or
15-inch ThinkPad T60 XGA displays.
Widescreen improves multi-tasking as it allows multiple
windows side-by-side for easier online shopping, Web browsing, digital
photography manipulation, video presentation development and DVD movie viewing.
Sporting the latest Core 2 Duo processors, the T60
widescreen is only 1.1-inch and weighs just 2.3 kilos. It's tough too, as a
business notebook should be and has the airbag-like Active Protection System, spill-resistant
keyboard amnd has the latest Lenovo security tools, such as the Embedded
Security System and an optional fingerprint reader.
The new notebook is rated at up to eight hours on a nine-cell
battery.
Priced from RRP US$1,399, the ThinkPad T60 widescreens are
available immediately in the United States,
though no announcement of availability has been made in Australia.
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