New Lenovo Ultraportable

Looks like Lenovo is making another jump into the ultraportable market:

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Lenovo has launched a new product in its 3000 series of notebooks, this time it's an ultraportable. The V100 is targeted at small business users and regular old consumers. The V100 comes with a choice of Core Duo or Core Solo processors. It has a 12.1" widescreen display, non-glossy. Included is a 5-in-1 card reader, 3 USB ports, 1.3 Megapixel web camera, fingerprint reader for security, 40 - 100GB hard drive @ 5400 RPM, and FireWire.

The Lenovo V100 weighs in at about 4lbs with 1.25" of thickness. It's thicker than the sibling ThinkPad X60 series of notebooks, but this notebook has a built in optical drive (combo drive or DVD burner) while the X-series of ThinkPad notebooks do not. The idea is to be portable yet have everything built-in.

Graphics are integrated, as you would expect with this sized notebook. The great news is that prices will start in the $1,000 range and not the typical $1,500 range that many ultraportable notebooks do. Availability is expected for the beginning of June for the V100.

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