At CES 2019, Lenovo announced their latest line up of smart devices or home use to computers for work and play.
Lenovo’s new innovations are built for Intelligent Transformation, the idea of people improving their lives through the use of transformative technology – for play, work, or in the home, and the Lenovo announced at CES 2019 that their products do just that.
Lenovo has partnered up with Google again to unveil the Lenovo Smart Clock with the Google Assistant. The Lenovo Smart Clock helps you unwind in the evening, kickstart your day, control your smart home and listen to your favorite music with multi-room audio grouping. The Lenovo Smart Clock adds to an ever-growing line-up that now includes the Lenovo Smart Display and the Lenovo Smart Home Essentials, further strengthening Lenovo’s continued commitment to making our daily lives easier and more productive.
Collaborating this time with Amazon, Lenovo created Lenovo Smart Tabs, a new category of 2-in-1 tablets which turn into fully functioning smart screens with Amazon Alexa. With Lenovo Smart Tabs, you can now have access to a fully-featured Android tablet that can also be used as a hub for your smart home devices. Not only is it a must-have for your home, but it’s also simple to set up. Just place the Lenovo Smart Tab into the Lenovo Smart Dock, and the tablet transforms into a “Show Mode” smart screen device, with full-screen visuals and crisp, room-filling sound that complements Alexa’s responses from nearly anywhere in the room, making this new 2-in-1 tablet plus smart dock much more than the sum of its parts, opening up new and exciting ways to make homes easier to manage.
AI coupled with advanced audio and display technologies is making Lenovo’s Yoga computer series their smartest yet. Whatever your profession is, the technologies in the new Yoga S940, Yoga A940, Yoga C730 with AMOLED and Yoga Mouse with Laser Presenter can help you get things done faster and make life easier.
The Yoga S940 ultra-slim Windows 10 laptop delivers security and privacy without sacrificing productivity and convenience thanks to an entire suite of Lenovo Smart Assist AI-enabled features. Leveraging AI, this includes the option to cancel noise and blur out distracting backgrounds during video calls. The Yoga S940 can also detect when you have left the laptop and auto-lock the display to keep others from seeing your data on it, or maybe even hacking into your social media account. It can also detect and alert you when you have someone watching from over your shoulder, or help increase productivity by shifting open windows and content to a connected external monitor, based on your where your attention is drawn to. The new Yoga S940 is also the world’s first laptop with Contour Glass that wraps around its bezels giving its already razor-thin bezels have a more streamlined look.
despite the latest in technology some artist and designer friends of mine still prefer the sketching with actual pen and paper. The new Yoga A940 aims to change that opinion. Built for digital content creators, the Windows 10 Yoga A940 is a powerful creative canvas with a large 27-inch optional 4K IPS touchscreen display with Dolby Vision, which brings entertainment to life through ultra-vivid picture quality. It also has a rotating hinge that allows the display to tilt to a 25-degree drafting mode, for flexibility and stability when drawing, sketching or annotating with a digital pen. It also features the Lenovo Precision Dial, a controller that’s made for designers, photographers, and videographers to make more precise selections and adjustments to their projects. With Lenovo Smart Assist AI-enabled features, a Dolby Vision-enabled 4K wide-angle display with stunning brightness, contrast, color, and detail, and boosted by Dolby Atmos Speaker System for rich, moving audio, the Yoga A940 is the workstation for content creator’s home or workspace.
Equipped with JBL speakers and Dolby Atmos which delivers immersive audio over any pair of compatible headphones, the 15-inch Yoga C730 2-in-1 convertible laptop gets an upgrade with up to a 4K AMOLED display, bringing a more vivid viewing experience with a degree of color clarity and contrast for higher-quality resolution. Its also emits less blue light meaning its easier on the eyes. The Yoga C730 also features an 8th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, Windows Ink for digital pen input, Windows Hello for instant log-in, and the smart convenience of Cortana and Alexa.
Just Twist and Point with the Yoga Mouse with Laser Presenter
Nowadays everyone has so many things to carry around from Laptops and phones to the smallest of chargers. With this in mind, Lenovo has streamlined two accessories into one with the Yoga Mouse with Laser Presenter. With just one twist, it can change from an ergonomic mouse to a fully functional laser presenter.
Lenovo Legion™ Gets More Savage with Performance Boost
Now that we have covered the work laptops, and smart devices we can move onto the Lenovo Legion series, Lenovo‘s gaming line from laptop and desktop computers to peripherals such as monitors, keyboards, and mice. The newest of which includes:
- Lenovo Legion Y740 and Y540 Laptops
- Lenovo Legion K500 RGB Mechanical Keyboard and M500 RGB Gaming Mouse
- Lenovo Legion H500 Pro 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset and H300 Stereo Gaming Headset
- Lenovo Legion Y27gq Monitor and Y44w Monitor for ultra-fast, smooth and immersive gaming
- Lenovo Legion T730 and T530 towers and C730 and C530 cubes to the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPU
Gamers come in different forms from diverse backgrounds as students or working professionals, which is why they’ve been designed to look just as great in a living room as it would in a conference room, while still keeping the high speed and performance gamers need to play at their best. This gaming line-up is engineered to handle the toughest technical challenges while retaining a clean aesthetic that won’t feel out of place in any environment.
In 2019, Lenovo has refined the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga laptops and made improvements users will appreciate while changing their look and feel to represent a contemporary and dynamic workforce.
Rounding off the PC announcements is a selection of accessories to complete the office, home or traveling users’ digital ecosystem:
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th Gen and X1 Yoga 4th Gen are both thinner and lighter than ever
- X1 Yoga 4th Gen now sporting an all-aluminum chassis
- 400 nit FHD display with ThinkPad Privacy Guard
- Dolby Atmos Speaker System with four far-field mics
- Latest 8th Gen Intel Core processors
- Cat16 LTE-A option and enhanced WLAN and WWAN antenna design
- ThinkShutter now available on both HD and IR cameras
- ThinkVision 43.3-inch P44w monitor offers dual-display capability without bezels
- A selection of accessories including the ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 2, a Lenovo Pro Stereo USB Headset, the Lenovo VOIP 360 Camera Speaker, the Lenovo Powered USB-C Hub, the Lenovo 700 Ultraportable Bluetooth Speaker, and a Lenovo Commuter Backpack.
New design options will be the most noticeable feature of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga. The Thinkpad X1 Carbon can include a visible carbon fiber weave top cover while the X1 Yoga has been redesigned and re-engineered from the ground up.
Improvements are more than skin-deep. Enhanced security measures such as ThinkPad PrivacyGuard and a faster Match-on-Chip fingerprint reader will keep end-users protected. Device experience has been enhanced with more display options, Dolby Atmos audio, four inbuilt microphones and improved wireless capabilities for the best possible collaboration and productivity experience.
US Pricing and Availability
- The Lenovo Smart Clock will be available this spring 2019 at 79.99 usd.
- Lenovo Smart Tab with Tab P10 is 299.99 usd with pre-orders starting January 2019 on Amazon and Lenovo‘s official website.
- Lenovo Smart Tab with Tab M10 is 199.99 usd with pre-orders starting January 2019 on Amazon and Lenovo‘s official website.
- The Lenovo Yoga S940 will start at 1,499.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website and Micro Center starting May 2019.
- The Lenovo Yoga A940 will start at 2,349.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website and Best Buy starting in April 2019.
- The 15-inch Lenovo Yoga C730 with AMOLED is expected to be available in select markets starting March 2019.
- The 17-inch Lenovo Legion Y740 Laptop will start at 1,979.99 usd and the 15-inch model will start at 1,749.99 usd, both are expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website and select retailers starting February 2019.
- The 15-inch Lenovo Legion Y540 Laptop will start at 929.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website and select retailers starting May 2019.
- Pricing and availability of the Lenovo Legion T730, T530, C730 and C530 desktops with upgraded NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPUs will be shared later.
- The Lenovo Legion M500 RGB Gaming Mouse will start at 59.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website starting April 2019.
- The Lenovo Legion K500 RGB Mechanical Keyboard will start at 99.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website starting April 2019.
- The Lenovo Legion H300 Stereo Gaming Headset will start at 59.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website starting April 2019.
- The Lenovo Legion H500 Pro 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset will start at 99.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website starting April 2019.
- The Lenovo Legion Y27gq Monitor will start at 999.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website starting April 2019.
- The Lenovo Legion Y44w Monitor will start at 1,199.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website starting April 2019.
- The Lenovo Yoga Mouse with Laser Presenter will start at 69.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website starting June 2019.
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon will start from 1,709.00 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website and business partners from June 2019.
- ThinkPad X1 Yoga will start from 1,929.00 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website and business partners from June 2019.
- ThinkVision P44w will start from 1,299.00 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website and business partners from April 2019.
- ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 2 is available now on Lenovo‘s official website at 319.99 usd.
- Lenovo Pro Stereo USB Headset will start from 249.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website from March 2019.
- Lenovo VOIP 360 Camera Speaker will start from 249.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website from March 2019.
- Lenovo 700 Ultraportable Bluetooth Speaker will start from 149.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website from April 2019.
- Lenovo Powered USB-C Hub will start from 79.99 usd and is expected to be available on Lenovo‘s official website from January 2019.
- Lenovo Commuter Backpack is expected to be available from January 2019. Check Lenovo‘s official website for pricing.