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Lenovo unveiled recently two new ThinkPad notebooks PCs — the first ThinkPad T61 and the first-ever R Series widescreen, the ThinkPad R61, both with 14.1-inch widescreen displays.

The ThinkPad T61 and R61, featuring the latest Intel Centrino Pro and Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology, respectively, offer users the strongest, coolest, quietest and best performing ThinkPad lineup yet. 

Lenovo engineered the new notebooks with its latest innovations, including a new top cover roll cage for excellent durability, an improved cooling system, enhanced wireless connectivity with Ultra Connect II, and longer battery life through its Battery Stretch control option.

With the new top cover roll cage in addition to the original hard drive magnesium roll cage, the new notebooks provide solid reliability with top-to-bottom protection.

The new honeycomb-designed roll cage cushions the notebook’s LCD, reinforcing the screen and helping reduce stress on the display structure and antenna. The new top cover roll cage reduces the stress on the LCD screen by 25 percent on average when the notebook is dropped, compared to previous ThinkPad notebooks.

Combined with features like the airbag-like sensor of Lenovo’s Active Protection System and a shock-mounted hard drive, these notebooks provide the highest level of Lenovo notebook reliability and durability.

Cooling-wise, Lenovo looked to the unique shape of an owl’s wing to improve cooling system design. The system reduces surface temperature by up to 10 percent and lowers the noise level by three decibels over previous ThinkPad notebooks, giving Lenovo its coolest and quietest notebooks yet. 

Lenovo, meanwhile, offers its best wireless performance with Ultra Connect II. This connectivity design helps reduce the effect of conductive material and LCD noise, boosting WWAN and WLAN performance and eliminating the need for external antennas.

The notebooks offer several different connectivity options such as WWAN (on select ThinkPad T61 models) and WLAN with 802.11n technology, GB Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth and modem. When used with Access Connections, Ultra Connect II helps give road warriors an easy to manage wireless experience.

Battery Stretch, on the other hand, allows individuals to select and manage options like minimizing refresh rates and disabling radios and Bluetooth options in the Power Manager ThinkVantage Technology software to maximize battery life.

The new notebooks offer cutting-edge security with select models offering full disk encryption hard drives, an integrated biometric fingerprint reader, and a smart card reader.

Users can also opt for Intel Turbo Memory with both notebooks and new IT management capabilities with Intel Active Management Technology in the T61. To enhance the multimedia experience, the notebooks offer choices of Intel integrated or NVIDIA discrete graphics and a four-in-one media card reader. Users can also opt for an integrated camera with the R61.

“The technologies we’ve designed and integrated into our new ThinkPad notebook PCs demonstrate Lenovo’s best engineering at work,” said Vicky Agorrilla, country general manager of Lenovo Philippines.

“Improvements in durability, reliability and wireless connectivity will help make our customer’s PC experience more enjoyable and productive. With the latest Lenovo technologies, we are continuing to set the standard for innovation and reliability,” Agorrilla added.

Lenovo also introduced the 3000 N200 15.4-inch widescreen notebook offering top connectivity and graphics capabilities with the latest Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology.

The 3000 N200 features a thin and light form that packs WLAN with 802.11n technology, 10/100 Ethernet and Bluetooth connectivity options. Integrated fingerprint readers help individuals manage their passwords and information. And to help lower the total cost of PC ownership, Lenovo Care Tools help manage IT tasks with automatic updates, one-button system recovery and simple network connectivity.

Choices of Intel integrated graphics or NVIDIA discrete graphics combined with options like an integrated camera and microphone, a five-in-one multicard reader and Vibrant View display add up to an excellent multimedia experience. 

The ThinkPad T61 and R61 14.1-inch notebooks start at P85,595 and P68,895, respectively. The Lenovo 3000 N200 15.4-inch widescreen notebook will be available next month.