{"id":19504,"date":"2012-08-06T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=19504"},"modified":"2012-08-06T14:09:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:09:51","slug":"lenovo-unveils-new-thinkpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/19504\/lenovo-unveils-new-thinkpad\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo unveils new ThinkPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lenovo has unveiled a lighter, quicker ThinkPad notebook computer inspired by the convenience of tablets and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese computer maker displayed the new ThinkPad X1 Carbon on Monday and said it would go on sale later this month.<\/p>\n<p>A Lenovo vice president, Dilip Bhatia, said it will have a longer battery life and lighter weight. He said that was in response to demands by customers who want a tablet&#8217;s convenience but need a notebook&#8217;s wider range of functions.<\/p>\n<p>Lenovo acquired the ThinkPad brand with IBM Corp.&#8217;s personal computer unit in 2005. Lenovo passed Dell Inc. last year to become the second-largest PC manufacturer after Hewlett-Packard Co.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/16348\/lenovo-shares-drop-on-shaky-outlook\/\"><strong>Lenovo shares drop on shaky outlook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/16195\/lenovo-has-offered-no-new-guidance-on-growth-forecasts\/\">Lenovo has offered \u201cno new guidance\u201d on growth forecasts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/14295\/lenovo-targets-400000-units-in-africa\/\"><strong>Lenovo targets 400,000 units in Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/14201\/lenovo-triples-sa-market-share\/\"><strong>Lenovo triples SA market share<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lenovo looks to lay pressure on HP, Dell\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/13438\/lenovo-looks-to-lay-pressure-on-hp-dell\/\"><strong>Lenovo looks to lay pressure on HP, Dell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenovo has unveiled a lighter, quicker ThinkPad notebook computer inspired by the convenience of tablets and smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,273,1388,3787],"class_list":["post-19504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-lenovo","tag-thinkpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19506,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions\/19506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}