IdeaPad U110 Now Available (video)
Lenovo’s IdeaPad U110 is finally available on Lenovo’s Web site and via retailers. The u110 is a very stylish 11.1-inch notebook, and the first compact notebook Lenovo’s marketing to consumers.
The $1,799 price tag and 11.1-inch form factor pits the U110 squarely against the Sony VAIO TZ series.
It’ll be tough for many users to fork over $1,799, especially considering the current configuration is sorely lacking the solid state drive we were told it would include at that price (check out the end of the video below). I’m checking with Lenovo today to see why the SSD disappeared, but the price remained the same.
The The IdeaPad U110 comes with two batteries (4-cell & 7-Cell) for a total run time of eight hours. This is a nice bonus as many thin-and-light notebooks’ primary batteries don’t have nearly enough juice to get you through the day.
I first saw the u110 at CES 2008, where it won a best of show award, and really like the attention to detail. Check out the video walkthrough of the u110 with Lenovo’s Matt Kohut below.
Here’s Lenovo’s IdeaPad U110 product page.
From the Lenovo press release:
IdeaPad U110 Notebook: Striking Design, Ultra-Portability and Cutting-Edge Features
A striking red or black cover finished in textured metal gives the IdeaPad U110 notebook an eye-catching design that is ideal for the fashion-conscious user. Enhanced by a frameless screen and weighing less than 2.5 pounds,2 the 11-inch wide notebook’s infinite-like viewing experience and thin and light frame cater to the highly mobile user, proving style and technology can go hand-in-hand. Equipped with VeriFace™ Face Recognition, users can quickly and easily log-in without having to remember passwords. Dolby® Home Theatre and the MultiMedia Control Center provide excellent sound quality while putting multimedia options at the user’s fingertips.Lenovo tailored the notebook for a perfect fit on performance with a 120 GB hard drive, up to 3 GB of memory, Intel® Centrino® processing technology, a built-in camera, WLAN, Ethernet and Bluetooth (select models) connectivity, an external DVD burner and the Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Home Premium operating system. To keep this ultimate PC accessory running longer without having to plug in for power, it comes with an additional battery for up to eight hours of battery life total. Additionally, Lenovo’s Active Protection System provides extreme durability by temporarily parking the hard drive if the notebook should fall or drop.