Lenovo at CES 2013: touchscreens, touchscreens, and more touchscreens – The Verge

Lenovo’s Erazer X700 gaming PC has a big red ‘overclock’ button

2013-01-06T20:32:33-05:00

Gallery Photo: Lenovo Erazer X700 gaming PC hands-on

Lenovo is demoing a brand new gaming tower PC here at CES, the Erazer X700. It's aggressively styled to the point where it almost looks like a parody of other companies' towers, with harsh angles and more blue lights than we cared to count. It features what Lenovo is calling "OneKey Overclocking," which automatically overclocks the CPU and GPU for when you need some extra power. It's configurable with a choice of Core i7 Extreme processors, either dual GeForce GTX660 or AMD Radeon HD 8950 graphics cards, and up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM. You'll also be able to choose from a wide range of storage options and optical drives. The Erazer X700 will be …

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Lenovo brings touch to the ThinkPad Edge range (hands-on)

2013-01-06T19:22:34-05:00

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We're here at CES with a first hands-on look at Lenovo's new ThinkPad Edge E431. Like the Edges of the past it's an attractive machine, but unlike earlier models it comes with a 10-point multitouch 14-inch 1600 x 900 display. Apart from the new touchscreen, this is the exact same Edge it's always been - fantastic keyboard, flimsy trackpad, trademark red trackpoint. The prototype model we looked at had a Core i5 processor with 8GB of RAM, but the final product will be configurable with Core i7 processors and up to 16GB of RAM. There's also a bigger brother to the E431, the E531, which comes with a larger 15-inch full HD display. Both models w …

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Lenovo ThinkPad Helix tablet / laptop hybrid gets a power-up when it docks

2013-01-06T19:01:13-05:00

Gallery Photo: Lenovo ThinkPad Helix hands-on pictures

Did you think you'd seen every possible way a laptop and tablet could merge? Lenovo's ThinkPad Helix is here to show you otherwise. Rather than simply flipping head over heels, twisting in place, or detaching from a battery-laden slate of keys, the ThinkPad Helix is a powerful tablet that actually gets more powerful when you combine it with its keyboard docking station - think Mighty Morphin Power Rangers but with Lenovo's trademark rack of keys rather than giant robotic animals.

Not only does the 11.6-inch Windows 8 touchscreen tablet come with a bright 400-nit screen at full 1080p resolution, with up to a Core i7 processor, 8GB of memory, 25 …

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Lenovo revamps 11-inch IdeaPad Yoga with Intel processors, full Windows 8 operating system (video)

2013-01-06T18:59:59-05:00

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S

Lenovo's backflipping IdeaPad Yoga 13 garnered a good bit of praise, but when the company launched a smaller, cheaper version of the touchscreen Wintel laptop, it chose to use the hamstrung Windows RT operating system and an ARM-based Nvidia Tegra 3 chip instead. You won't have to choose between size and capabilities forever, though, because Lenovo's introducing the IdeaPad Yoga 11S today. The Yoga 11S maintains the attractive $799 starting and design of the original 11-incher - adding only a smidgen of thickness and weight - but brings back the Intel Core processor (up to an i7) and full Windows 8 operating system necessary to run desktop ap …

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Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon brings touchscreen gaming to a massive 27-inch surface (video hands-on)

2013-01-06T18:00:19-05:00

Apparently Lenovo liked what it saw from Sony's Tap 20, because here at CES the company is introducing its own "portable" desktop PC. The IdeaCentre Horizon is primarily a Windows 8-enabled all-in-one - Lenovo calls it a "table PC" - with a 27-inch, 1080p 10-finger touchscreen, Intel's Core i7 processors and discrete graphics. But it's also portable, at least in theory, thanks to an internal battery that Lenovo says will power the gigantic device for two hours at a time. The gigantic slate is only 1.06 inches thick, but it weighs 17 pounds, so its actual viability as a tablet will vary with your upper-body strength. In a more practical nod t …

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Lenovo updates its laptops and all-in-ones with multitouch for Windows 8

2013-01-06T18:00:05-05:00

Lenovo has announced a slew of touchscreen devices ready for Windows 8, including a pair of new ultrabooks, a high-res all-in-one, and a 13.3-inch multitouch monitor. Perhaps the most interesting of the new products are a pair of new touchscreen ThinkPads, the Edge E431 and E531. Measuring one-inch thick and weighing in at 4.7 (E431) and 5.4 (E531) pounds, they'll be configurable with up to Core i7 Ivy Bridge processors, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. The E431 will max out with a 14-inch 1600 x 900 "HD+" display, while the E531 will be available with a full HD anti-glare panel. They'll also arrive with "next generation" Nvidia graphics wit …

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