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Friday, 6 October 2017

Lenovo celebrates the ThinkPad's 25th anniversary

Source: Lenovo. The ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25.
Source: Lenovo. The ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25.
Lenovo has launched a limited-edition ThinkPad at Yamato Labs in Japan, the birthplace of the iconic laptop, to celebrate 25 years of design and engineering innovation. Designed by Richard Sapper and engineered in the Yamato Labs in Japan, the original ThinkPad 700C was announced on October 5 1992. Inspired by the traditional Japanese bento box, the 700C went on to win more than 300 awards and became a status symbol for presidents and CEOs in just two months

The ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25 includes “retro” features such as a backlit seven-row ThinkPad Classic keyboard, dedicated volume buttons, multiple status LEDs and a multicolour logo. Powered by an Intel Core i7-7500U processor with discrete NVIDIA GeForce 940MX graphics and a 14" full HD display with touch, the ThinkPad “Retro” performance is a far cry from the original 700C.

One hundred and thirty million unit sales later, the ThinkPad marks a milestone in the IT industry. It has helped explorers reach Earth’s most remote places, supported space missions and facilitated business growth. “ThinkPad design creates a powerful and synergistic relationship between form and function. It balances sophisticated aesthetics, thoughtfully crafted user experiences and renowned engineering in order to deliver superior products,” said David Hill, former Chief Design Officer, Lenovo. “Twenty-five years after the introduction of the original 700C, the latest X1 Carbon is immediately recognisable as a ThinkPad.”
Arimasa Naitoh, former head of the Yamato Labs and known as the father of ThinkPad, says that the future of the ThinkPad is in safe hands. “From the original 700C to the latest X1 Series, ThinkPad has proved it can enable business transformation and offer customers uncompromised mobility,” he says. “Our team of engineers imagine a future world where ThinkPad creates new segments and further enriches user experiences as technology becomes more embedded in our lives.”

“ThinkPad has helped revolutionise how we do things. Business, education, healthcare, supply chain, transportation and finance are just a few segments that have been transformed by mobile computing over the past 25 years,” said Gianfranco Lanci, President and COO, Lenovo. “The next 25 years are an opportunity for new generations to discover the wonders of ThinkPad. As long as there are customer pain points, there will be a ThinkPad to fix them.”

“Our collaboration with Lenovo has driven true mobile PC innovation and transformed how businesses get things done,” said Jim Johnson, VP, Client Computing Group and GM, Client Customer Engineering Group at Intel Corporation. “From the 1992 ThinkPad 700C to today’s ultralight, connect-anywhere X1 series 2in1s, we continue to push boundaries together for commercial-class performance, security and manageability that empowers the modern workforce.”

“It has been a privilege to partner with the ThinkPad team to evolve mobile computing from the first ThinkPad notebook computers running Windows 3.1 to the latest ThinkPad X1 Yoga that lights up modern experiences in Windows 10,” said Peter Han, VP, Partner Devices and Solutions, Microsoft. “We look forward to our continued collaboration with Lenovo to deliver new experiences such as mixed reality and artificial intelligence (AI) that will help ThinkPad users achieve even more.”

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The ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25 is available in limited quantities in select countries at US$1,899. The product is available on Lenovo.com and through business partners.

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