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How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names
Source: CIO.com

Makers of these 10 tech products—the iPod, BlackBerry, Firefox, Twitter, Windows 7, ThinkPad, Android, Wikipedia, Mac OS X and the "Big Cats," and Red Hat Linux—all have displayed certain amounts marketing savvy, common sense and fun-loving spirit in settling on their product …

Thinkpad X300 With SSD Performance Evaluation
Source: Slashdot

"Hard drives are typically one of the more significant performance bottlenecks in any system today. An evaluation of Lenovo's new ultra portable Thinkpad X300 notebook shows a fast solid state hard drive can substantially improve the performance of a system.

Lenovo X300 ad takes the MacBook Air: "Everything Else is just Hot Air"
Source: Engadget

Pencil thin laptop? Check. Floating with drop shadow? Check. Catch phrase in Helvetica Light? You bet.

Ultralight Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad Specs Leaked
Source: Gizmodo

It appears that Lenovo have themselves a new ultralight X300 series Thinkpad—and outside of the price and release date, we have all of the specs that you need to know.

Lenovo Celebrates 15th Anniversary of Thinkpad with "Reserve Edition"
Source: TechnologyExpert

This isn't a laptop for someone looking for performance, but rather bling. It's just a business notebook, but one with serious executive-class accoutrements. It also has a serious price, at $5,000. It is, after all, the 15th anniversary of the Thinkpad.

Lenovo quietly selling Linux-compatible laptops
Source: desktoplinux.com

Lenovo seems to have a love/hate relationship with Linux. Last year, it began offering its high-end T60p ThinkPad laptop with SLED 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop).

What Carelessness Brings

When Morpheus says in The Matrix that "fate it seems, is not without a sense of irony", you can count me as a firm believer.

Lenovo recalls 500,000 batteries
Source: BBC News

Chinese computer-maker Lenovo has announced the worldwide recall of more than 500,000 laptop batteries made by Sony because of a fire risk. Just when you thought this was over with...

Computer Notebook Tips
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Computer Notebook Tips, Guide to choose cheap notebooks and laptops. How and where to get recertified notebooks at dirt cheap prices

Lenovo Debuts SUSE Linux Laptops
Source: CNET News.com

Lenovo debuted its first Linux-based laptops at LinuxWorld in San Francisco on Tuesday, running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 provided through a partnership with Novell.

Lenovo Preloads SUSE On ThinkPad
Source: desktoplinux.com

Analysis -- Finally. For years, the holy grail of the Linux desktop has been to get a major computer vendor to commit to preloading a Linux desktop. It finally happened.

One Year With IBM PCs, Lenovo Looks To Competition
Source: techweb.com

A year after taking over IBM's personal computing business, Lenovo has integrated and restructured. Now, the company is turning attention to more intense competition.

One year later, Lenovo looks for second act | CNET News.com
Source: CNET

Lenovo tries to develop global strategy for ThinkPad line.

Indiana State adds Laptop to list of essential school supplies
Source: tribstar.com

Indiana State University has selected the Lenovo ThinkPad as its preferred computer for students and faculty as the university moves toward becoming a notebook institution.

Running OSX on an IBM Thinkpad

I was playing around with OSX running on an IBM Thinkpad at a friends house the other evening and it was surprisingly nice. Zippyy, for sure. Most everything wored, except the WiFi. Seems this was a developer build.

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