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    Lenovo IdeaPad U310, U410 Ultrabooks Coming this June, Starting at $749

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    Michelle Maisto
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    June 4, 2012
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      Lenovo has introduced two colorful new Ultrabooks, as part of its efforts to extend a hand to college students and other consumers still not acquainted with the brand€”currently the second-largest PC maker in the world.

      The IdeaPad U310 and U410 Ultrabooks feature third-generation Intel Core i3, i5 of i7 processors, display sizes of 13.3 and 14 inches, respectively, and will come in Sapphire Blue, Aqua Blue, Cherry Blossom Pink, Graphite Gray and Metallic Red.

      Pricing for the 3.74-pound, 0.7-inch-thick U310 will start at $749, while the 4.18-pound, 0.78-inch-thick U410 will start at $799. They€™re both on sale in a number of countries as of June 4, though will arrive in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, India, China and Japan later in June.

      The new Lenovo Ultrabooks offer up to 1TB of storage, Nvidia GeForce graphics, Dolby Home Theatre v4 and Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) technology for wirelessly projecting videos and other content. The U310 gets up to seven hours of battery life and the U410 up to nine hours.

      Lenovo€™s Enhanced Experience 3 for Windows 7 is said to offer a boot-up and quick-resume time that€™s 40 percent faster than nonoptimized devices, while its Smart Update function can keep email and instant messaging chats automatically updating, even while the devices are in sleep mode.

      €œLenovo Ultrabooks free people from having to choose between a device with a productivity-focused user experience and one with a style and design that inspire their creativity,€ Peter Hortensius, president of Lenovo€™s Product Group, said in a June 4 statement.

      Productivity-focused devices have been a Lenovo strong suit, but with the new UltraPads, Lenovo has also launched a five-minute €œSeize the Night€ short-film-slash-advertisement, indicting the U310, with a hoodie-wearing programmer, mix-master, artist, engineer and mastermind, in an underground scheme to power-down a city and turn a piazza area into a dance party. All of it Lenovo€™s scheme, of course, to attach a bit of cool to the brand.

      Other newly launched awareness-boosting campaigns include a €œBook of Do€ series, highlighting young people€”Lenovo calls them €œthe world€™s tinkerers, creators and builders€”doing cool things with smart products. (Or is it smart things with cool products?)

      Lenovo has also teamed up with Microsoft and Bing and will this summer launch a series of contests, called €œThe Hunt: 11 Days of Doing,€ on college campuses starting July 10. Designed to inspire students to €œact in their communities,€ says Lenovo, prizes will include the U310 and U410, among other devices.

      Lenovo, outgrowing the PC market by a wide margin, is expected to pass longtime market leader Hewlett-Packard during the second or third quarter of 2012.

      €œLenovo has managed to capitalize on the missteps of others in the PC market,€ research firm IDC said in an April 11 press release, announcing a quarter that saw 2.3 percent growth. €œThe company has continued to expand its channel reach in the Americas and Europe, while still gaining ground in Asia. Overall growth above 40 percent was way ahead of the market and other competitors, leveraging strong results across regions and building on strong growth in recent quarters.€

      In recent weeks, Lenovo has also introduced the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook and a slew of business-centric devices.

      Michelle Maisto
      Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and in her spare time obsesses about food. Her first book, The Gastronomy of Marriage, if forthcoming from Random House in September 2009.

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