Lenovo Offers New Notebooks

By Digital Trends Staff January 5, 2009

Lenovo Offers New Notebooks

Lenovo introduced its Ideapad notebooks at CES last year, and this year they’re bringing some new laptops to the party.

The IdeaPad Y650 will have a 16-inch display. At $1,199 it offers up to 4GB of DDR3 (double data rate 3) main memory and can go up to 500GB of hard disk drive data storage, using an Intel Centrino 2 platform with Intel Core 2 dual processors.

The IdeaPads Y550 and Y450 both retail for $829. The Y550 has the same memory and data configuration as the Y650 with a 15.6-inch screen, Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the Intel GM45 chip set. The Y450 is the same, but with a 14-inch screen.

And then there’s the desktop, the IdeaCenter A600, which packs a whopping 4GB of DDR3 memory and 1TB of hard disk drive data storage, along with an Intel Core 2 Duo or Pentium Dual Core processor. With a 21.5-inch frameless monitor, it’s set to sell for $999. It should go on sale in April, with the laptops available from March.

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