Lenovo Launches Its First US Consumer Desktop - InformationWeek

Lenovo on Monday launched its first consumer desktop outside of People'S Republic Of China with the release of a low-priced in the United States.

The IdeaCentre K210 release followed Lenovo's launch this twelvemonth of consumer notebooks outside of China, starting again in the United States with the IdeaPad series of mobile PCs. Among the unusual characteristics in the desktop theoretical account is facial-recognition technology that lets users to by having the computer's photographic camera acknowledge their faces.

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Another characteristic Lenovo is hoping to utilize to distinguish the merchandise in a crowded marketplace is an anti-microbial keyboard that usages particular stuff to suppress bacterial growth. The is expected to be utile in environments where multiple people utilize the same computer.

The K210 also includes Lenovo's system-recovery technology, which salvages information on a particular system in the event of a failure. Specifications of the new machine include an Intel Core 2 quad-core and GMA 3100 incorporate graphics. In addition, the computing machine have an optional Blu-ray thrust and the option of upgrading to an ATI Radeon 2600 crosstalk for personal computer gaming.

The IdeaCentre K210 is available in U.S. retail stores. Prices begin at $379, after a mail-in rebate. A 19-inch is available for an further $229, and a 22-inch for $299. Both terms are after a mail-in rebate.

In late April, Lenovo, which is best known in the United States for the ThinkPad concern notebooks, called the U110. The portable was the up-to-the-minute improver to the IdeaPad line in the United States, which also includes 13-, 15- and 17-inch models.

The U110 pronounced the company's greatest going from the ThinkPad workhorse. The computing machine come ups in multiple colours and have a stylized, textured designing embedded in its aluminium metal cover. Among the most noticeable differences, besides the exterior, is the computer's keyboard, which have a glistening achromatic coating that's level to the touching as a individual moves from one key to the next.

Lenovo in the first one-fourth was the fourth-largest PC shaper in the human race in footing of shipments, Hewlett-Packard and Dell were Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, and Genus Acer was third. Lenovo was not among the top five in the United States.