Affordable? - The 3000 LenovoSeries

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In a suprising move, Lenovo, the China corp who purchased the Thinkpad brand in a billion dollar deal, have decided to release their own line of business class laptops. The N100 is a centrino dual core notebook with a glossy, widescreen display. The C100 is more of a budget business offering, boasting an attractive sub 600 dollar price tag.

Image of the Lenovo C100When Lenovopurchased the coveted Thinkpad brand from IBM in a billion dollarplus deal back in 2004, many tech journalists where sceptical asto the quality of future Thinkpads. The X41 Tablet PC helped soothe concerns, since then we've had morelaptop goodness in the form of the widescreen Zseries, and dual core thin and light X60 and T60ultraportables.
Flushed with the success of their stewardship of the Thinkpadlegacy, Lenovo are now feeling confident enough to release a line of affordablelaptops under their own brand, aimed at the small business sector. Introducing the Lenovo 3000 series:

N100 Lenovo 3000
Tipping the scales at 5.8 pounds, this silver lidded widescreennotebook has a choice of two WSXGA glossy screen sizes - 14.1inch and 15.4 inches. The N100 is available with a 1.83 GHz dualcore processor, and a 100 GB hard drive. Of course this kind ofconfiguration is standard fare in 2006, but when you take a lookat the entry level price of 799 dollars, you can see that Lenovoare really offering value for money.

The N100 is bluetooth enabled, and also has a number of usefulfeatures for the small business user. These include an integratedfingerprint reader for improved laptop security, and a system recovery button, to help restore the C3000N100 if it comes under critical attack from trojans, worms andviruses. Memory can be upgraded to a useful 2GB DDR2.

C100 Lenovo 3000
Not as good looking, and a little chunkier than it's N100brother, (it weighs in at a robust 6.2 pounds), the C100 isunfortunately a little lighter in the processor department. Noblazing dual core this time, instead the C100 sports a 1.73-GHzPentium M 740 processor.

Before you get disapointed, this 3000 Lenovo notebookis also lighter on the wallet, indeed entry level C100s can bepurchased for 599 dollars. The C100 is available with 15 inch XGAscreen, 80 GB of hard drive capacity, and like the N100 2GB ofRAM. Unfortunately no bluetooth capability, or fingerprint readeron the C100.

In my opinion Lenovo 3000 series notebooks are not as stylish assome of the elegant Thinkpads that have graced the marketrecently, however the C100 and the N100 are certainly affordablelaptops, and do offer excellent value formoney.

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