IdeaPad

You can now find the Lenovo B560 laptop, IdeaPad Z565 and Lenovo V560 at your local Best Buy retail store. This is the first time Lenovo's consumer laptops have been offered at Best Buy. All Best Buy stores in the U.S. will offer the Lenovo B560 laptop as well as the IdeaPad Z565 laptop, while select stores will carry the Lenovo V560 laptop.

Lenovo B560
This laptop features a 15.6-inch LED HD display, 2GB memory, 320GB hard drive, DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support, a 0.3MP webcam, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and built-in 100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN.

Additional features include a fingerprint reader, 4-in-1 digital media reader and 3 high-speed USB 2.0 ports. It runs Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit, weighs 4.9 lbs. and measures just 1.3" thin. Read more

Lenovo is announcing the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid with LePad Slate at CES on Wednesday, but they gave us the go-ahead to tell you about this unique two-in-one device now. The IdeaPad U1 Hybrid combines a multitouch Android slate (LePad) and the U1 laptop PC base, making the device both a slate and a fully functional Windows 7 PC.

The ultra-portable LePad weighs less than 2 pounds, is only half an inch thick and touts a battery life of up to eight hours. Built on Android 2.2, it features a 10.1-inch widescreen that runs in landscape and portrait modes, is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor, and has a front camera for video chat. Using the Hybrid Switch feature, LePad seamlessly switches to a Windows 7 PC once it is attached to the U1 base. The base features a Windows 7 Home Premium operating system and an Intel CULV processor. Lenovo plans for LePad to support Adobe Flash Player 10.1.

LePad will be available beginning in China in the first quarter of 2011 and come in two colors – scarlet and white – and with two different textures - brown "leather" and black "leather." The LePad slate can be purchased separately from the U1 base. The LePad slate starts at about US $520. The U1 Hybrid laptop with LePad Slate starts at approximately US $1,300.

Lenovo last week unveiled its first 3D multimedia laptop. The Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d features a 3D screen, software and glasses, what the company calls "the TriDef 3D technology solution." Part of this solution is the TriDef Media Player, which transforms 2D movies into 3D. Photos can even be viewed in 3D too, thanks to the TriDef Photo Transformer.

The 15.6-inch Y560d 3D-enabled laptop runs Windows 7 with RapidDrive technology (for faster boot-up time), is powered by (up to) an Intel Core i7 processor, includes the ATI Radeon HD5730 1GB graphics card and has a High-Def 16:9 widescreen. You can get up to 8GB DDR3 memory, up to 750BG HDD, and it offers an optional Blu-ray Disc drive. It also sports JBL-designed speakers, Dolby Home Theater surround sound and has HDMI output. In addition, the Y560d comes with optional high-speed integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.

The Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d laptop will be available by the end of June on www.lenovo.com and will start at approximately $1,199.99.

Lenovo today introduced new laptop, desktop, all-in-one and nettop PCs. Designed with features to fit specific needs, the models include new IdeaPad Z series notebooks, IdeaPad U series ultraportables, the IdeaCentre A700 AIO, and the IdeaCentre B305 AIO. The company also added a new ultra-thin nettop PC, the IdeaCentre Q150 and a new slim tower desktop PC, the H320.

More info:

• The IdeaCentre Q150 – an ultra-thin nettop that turns your HDTV into a PC. It will start in price at $249.
• The sleek and sexy IdeaPad U series (U160, U460 and U460s) feature fashionable etched metal designs and a "closed book" shape. They will start at $699.
• New touch screen all-in-ones- the IdeaCentre B305 and IdeaCentre A700 (the first consumer AIO with Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology). The A700 will start in price at $999, with the B305 starting at $699.
• The IdeaPad Z series (Z360, Z560 and Z565) is a new line of affordable, multimedia notebooks. They will start at $649.
• The affordable H320, Lenovo's first slim tower desktop will start at $549.

Lenovo this week added two new PCs to its lineup, the all-in-one C200 desktop computer and the IdeaPad S10-3s netbook.

The C200 all-in-one computer features an 18.5 inch HD 16:9 display, (up to) Intel Atom Dual Core processor D510, DVD reader/writer, optional touchscreen panel, and (up to) NVIDIA ION 256MB graphics processor. It also comes with integrated stereo speakers, the Lenovo Rescue System for file back up, and Lenovo's High-Sense Webcam which has a larger lens and more color and shading sensitivity than your standard webcam…even in low light.

The C200 will be available this month on Lenovo.com. Prices start at just $399.Read more

Lenovo is going after the MacBook Air, Dell Adamo and the Voodoo Envy with its own ultra-thin laptop. By putting less horsepower and leaving some weight to the design of the new IdeaPad U350, Lenovo has created the cheapest ultra-thin laptop to date. The 13.3-inch Lenovo IdeaPad U350 will weigh around 3.5lbs and will have a thickness of less than 1-inch.

The IdeaPad U350 will give you the choice of a Core 2 Solo, Pentium ULV or Celeron processor, up to 8GB of RAM and up to 500GB of HDD space. Your IdeaPad U350 will also come with the OneKey™ Rescue System to help recover data if it becomes corrupted.

Expect to see the Lenovo IdeaPad U350 this July for an estimated price of $600 - $700. Grab the full press release here.