Bangkok--26 Sep--Spark
Lenovo Adds DO Machines For Small Business With Edge Family Additions
- Sharply designed ThinkCentre Edge 91z and 71z All-in-One bring advanced performance and streamlined features
- Get style and attitude for your business with the ThinkPad Edge E220s and E420s laptops
- Chic and classy ThinkPad Edge 120 and 320 ultraportables offer robust performance and innovative conferencing features
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) announced today the ThinkCentre Edge 91z and ThinkCentre Edge 71z All-in-One (AIO) desktops that blend a sophisticated image, purposeful function and extreme productivity into a small, compact model. The new AIOs, the first PCs in the ThinkCentre Edge range, join the growing family of Edge products and supplement the sophisticated ThinkPad Edge E220s and E420s laptops and the ultraportable ThinkPad Edge E120 and E320.
Designed for the unique needs of small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), Lenovo’s latest DO machines for business keep customers doing more for their business. These computers offer the image-raising style, advanced performance and simple-to-use features needed to keep daily productivity humming along.
Jeerawut Wongpimonporn, Country General Manager, Lenovo Thailand said: “The latest AIO PCs are perfect additions to the ThinkCentre Edge family, built from the ground up for SMBs. Our Edge ranges of desktops and laptops have been designed to meet the needs of these businesses and show that innovation, performance and style and design can go hand-in-hand to fit almost any budget.”
Professional Grade Computing with ThinkCentre Edge All-in-Ones
The striking ThinkCentre Edge 91z and 71z AIOs fit style and space-saving design into one machine. The ThinkCentre Edge 91z sports a 21.5-inch glossy high definition screen for crystal clear images. While the screen makes a large visual impact, its industry-leading thin frame helps it fit into even the tightest of work spaces. The ThinkCentre 71z gives SMBs the technology equivalent to the office power suit with its sleek 20-inch display, glossy black shell and impressive appearance.
The new AIOs keep simplicity and purposeful design constant throughout their construction: From an optional spill-resistant wireless keyboard, front-facing control buttons and wall mount capability to multiple-display support, the AIO makes operation worry-free and intuitive. The new PCs solve everyday computing hassles to make the experience more enjoyable and productive. Upgrading storage and memory requires no tools and only a few minutes, while a hidden, rubber grip handle makes moving these AIOs no big deal.
Without a doubt, the desktop duo can double as an SMB’s power-pounding, number-crunching productivity machine during the day and as a perfect entertainment device for watching movies or TV, listening to music, and relaxing online off the clock. Equipped with up to 2nd Generation Intel? Core? i5 processors on the ThinkCentre Edge 71z and up to 2nd Generation Intel? Core? i7 Quad Core processors on the ThinkCentre Edge 91z, users have plenty of performance at their fingertips.
Adding to all that, they’re both equipped with Lenovo’s suite of ThinkVantage Technologies including Rescue and Recovery, Power Manager and System Update to restore, manage and update the PCs with ease. For times when SMBs need IT support, they can turn to Lenovo’s ThinkPlus Priority Support program that offers a variety of services from damage and accident protection to technical assistance and online data backup.
Hardworking ThinkPad Edge Portables To Suit Your Style
For the mobile warrior, the ThinkPad Edge laptops bring SMBs a heightened sense of personal technology style with a new matte finish, business-class performance, simple computing features, and video and voice tools.
The chic and modern 12-inch ThinkPad Edge E220s and 14-inch ThinkPad Edge E420s have been designed to turn heads while taking care of business. Both strikingly thin and light, these laptops also have the power to perform and offer choices of 2nd Generation Intel? Core? i3, i5 and i7 processors. Whether for work or play, the Dolby Home Theatre? audio ensures that your laptop has never sounded this good with its enhanced, crisp clear sound.
Uncompromising Business-Class Ultraportables
The ThinkPad Edge ultraportables pack innovative tools into a small and slim form factor while projecting a smart, polished image. Enhancements like an up to 13 percent thinner frame makes them even more striking and easier to slide into a briefcase or bag. Weighing just 3.4 and 3.6 pounds[i], respectively, the 11.6-inch ThinkPad Edge E120 and 13.3-inch E320 ultraportable laptops strike a strong balance of size and weight, battery life and full-featured performance. Additionally, all the laptops come in soft matte finishes in heatwave red or midnight black while offering anti-glare or glossy displays. The spill-resistant, island-style keyboard provides not only hours of comfortable typing, but also contributes to the laptop’s clean, modern design.
All laptops are equipped with a range of connectivity options including mobile broadband, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Gigabit Ethernet. To play multimedia on the big screen, they include an HDMI port and a host of USB ports and slots for connecting to other devices, all while being able to run over nine hours on a single charge.
More and more business users are turning to voice and video conferencing. To give them the best experience possible, the laptops are equipped with advanced tools including a low-light sensitive web camera, noise suppressing keyboard, microphone mute key and the ThinkVantage Communications Utility 2.0, an assistant program for video and voice over the internet software that enables you to change all settings for the integrated camera, MIC and audio functions. Wireless connections can also be managed while on-the-go as the laptop can hold the wireless connection for several seconds even the lid needs to be closed.
Super-Charged, Crystal Clear Biz Performance
Using Lenovo’s Rapid Boot technology leveraging solid state drive storage, select models boot up to 30 percent faster than typical Windows 7 laptops[ii]. Less waiting means more working. The ThinkPad Edge series offer visibly smart performance and rich, vivid graphics and 2nd Generation Intel? Core?. With high processing power, users can open presentations, load browsers and websites and transfer multimedia files faster.
Lean, Green Machines
The ThinkCentre and ThinkPad Edge series incorporate several significant environmental attributes: They use a significant amount of recycled content in chassis materials. They include power supply units that surpass Energy Star 5.2 efficiency requirements and they are EPEAT Gold rated. The ThinkCentre Edge desktops are also TCO Certified Edge for their strong environmental and usability features.
Pricing and Availability
The ThinkPad Edge E220s and E420s are available for THB 43,800 (excl. VAT) and THB 36,300 (excl. VAT) respectively.
The ThinkCentre Edge 91z and ThinkCentre Edge 71z are available now from select business partners and retail stores nationwide for THB 30,900 (excl. VAT) and THB 26,900 (excl. VAT) respectively.
The ThinkPad Edge E120 and E320 ultraportables are available now. Pricing starts at approximately THB 21,900 for models of the ThinkPad Edge E120 and THB 23,900 for the ThinkPad Edge E320.
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About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$21 billion personal technology company serving customers in more than 160 countries, and the world’s third-largest PC vendor. Dedicated to building exceptionally engineered PCs and mobile internet devices, Lenovo’s business is built on product innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and strong strategic execution. 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. Its product lines include legendary Think-branded commercial PCs and Idea-branded consumer PCs, as well as servers, workstations, and a family of mobile internet devices, including tablets and smart phones. Lenovo, a global Fortune 500 company, has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
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[i] With 3-cell battery.
[ii] Lenovo Enhanced Experience 2.0 for Windows? 7 uses RapidBoot technology to start your PC on average 20 seconds faster than a typical Windows? 7 computer. Compares averaged data from Lenovo EE 2.0 PCs with averaged data from 42 competitor products of similar configuration. Testing conducted by CNET Labs,Beijing in November 2010, using the independent Microsoft VTS tool to measure start-up, shutdown, resume and other Windows? 7 performance measurements. Data from competitor and Lenovo PCs were averaged and compared to calculate the claims used. Performance will vary by model and configuration.