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Lenovo, chinese computer manufacturer that bought the Thinkpad line from IBM several years ago, has announced a new line of ThinkPad workstations that come with NVidia Quadro FX video cards for GPU acceleration, and the Elemental Accelerator software from Elemental Technologies, to make a great video processing workstation.

“Digital content creators require the highest level of encoding performance to produce cutting-edge products,” said Peter Schrady, vice president, Software and Peripherals, Lenovo. “By pairing ThinkStation workstations with Elemental Accelerator and NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs, we are building computing solutions that deliver the fastest and highest quality video encoding experience available for Adobe Creative Suite 4 users.”

The workstations can be configured online now at www.lenovo.com/thinkstation and start as low at $799 (but the Elemental Accelerator software adds an extra $200).

via Lenovo Accelerates Video Performance for ThinkPad Workstations | Business Wire.

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Lenovo has just recently released their new ThinkPad T400s, breaking their previous record for a slim-laptop.  The T400s is a mere 0.83 inches thick and weights just 3.9lbs, putting it between the aluminum unibody MacBook and MacBook Air.  All this is nice and good, but in a recent interview with ComputerWorld, David Critchley drops this little bombshell:

Lenovo is also thinking about adding a multitouch screen to future ThinkPads and it will consider releasing a slim model of its T500 with 15-in. OLED screen “if demand is there ” Carias said.

More important than demand is price, I suspect.  OLED isn’t cheap, but the contract and resolution alone would have people clamoring for it.

via Lenovo slims down new ThinkPad T400s.

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Lenovo has shocked us all by actually showing some interesting new hardware at GDC today.  They’ve announced two new ThinkStation desktops (the S20 and D20) that come with Intel’s new Nehalem-based Xeon chips and an NVidia Tesla C1060 (or ATI FirePro) inside, for only $1070 or $1550.  They’re available in Q1, and EnGadget has pics and the press release.

Lenovo ThinkStation S20 / D20 sport new Xeon CPUs, Tesla C1060 GPU.

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