Lenovo earnings solid - Congratulations!

Lenovo Newsroom | Lenovo Reports Fourth Quarter and Record Full Year 2011/12 Results

Lenovo poised to take over top slot?

 

Top spot? I don't think Apple is in danger.

I thought that pundits were telling us that the desktop/laptop market was dead? Or is it dead for those companies that don't know how to manufacture hardware? Big difference.

X1 is a hybrid?

Lenovo, where is your smartphone in the US? Where is a Thinkpad Smartphone? And why do you not ship a package of smartphone+laptop that can easily talk to each other with no hardware hiccups?

 

I was under the impression "Lenovo finished its financial year as the world’s second largest PC vendor with a record full-year market share of 12.9 percent." meant they were number 2 behind HP.

Clearly " During the same period, Lenovo’s worldwide PC shipments increased a solid 44 percent, or almost nine times an overall industry increase of just five percent. In the fourth quarter, Lenovo introduced the ThinkPad X1 hybrid laptop with up to ten hours of battery life, and the Thinkpad T430u Ultrabook, the company’s first business ultrabook, featuring an extremely thin and light design. In addition, Lenovo introduced several new consumer IdeaPad laptops in a full spectrum of styles, colors, and performance for every consumer – from mobile professionals to students to everyone in between." is part fantasy.

The T430u is not selling yet.

 

Neither is the x1 hybrid. It appears the three ultrabooks - x1 carbon, x1 hybrid, and t430u - will all appear later in the year.

According to Lenovo website
x1c August
T430u late 2012
x1h no date mentioned

 

Another way to look at it: The more money they make the more we are overpaying for our laptops.

 

I haven't seen any mention of this X1 hybrid up until now. Unless they are talking about that mythical Win8 slim thinkpad tablet that doesn't even have a name yet.

Most likely their pressroom confused X1 Carbon for X1 Hybrid.

 

Well if Lenovo can bring to the X240 tablet a slim 6 cell battery, 15 watt standard voltage i5, slimmer chassis, traditional _60/61 keyboard, HD+ RGBLED IPS panel, then we would have a winner.

 

"introduce" could mean the demo at ces

 

the X1 hybrid can work with android and windows/lunux/AROS/etc.

It had 2 kinds of CPU, a x86_64 and a ARM

It is good to see lenovo grow up. It made exelent machines with high quality.

BR

 

LOL. You don't ask for much.

 

PHP:

actually the profit margin decreased a lot.

 

X1H was announced at CES but nothing since then. X1C was not announced at CES but has had lots of release news in the past few weeks.

X1C is the true successor to the X1, whereas X1H is, as mentioned, a new type of device with both intel and arm architecture, allowing you to boot into a low powered android mode to save battery and perform basic functions.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Hybrid preview: hands-on impressions, video, and pictures | The Verge

Lenovo announces ThinkPad X1 Carbon, calls it the world's lightest 14-inch ultrabook (hands-on) | The Verge


if i had to guess, i'd say that lenovo eventually decided the X1H wasnt ready for this year and will release it next year. It was originally slated for Q2 2012 but we're too close to that with no new news to make that believable.

 

Thanks for the links. I wasn't aware of that announcement. Looks a bit strange though that they would want to run Android but offer no touch screen to efficiently use it. Wasn't the whole point of Android OS is that it is more friendly to the touch interface?

IMHO, this kind of work should be done by a company like AMD rather than Lenovo. AMD is in the best position to ship a hybrid CPU product that would include all 3:

• a powerful x86 core,
• a low power ARM core, and
• a good performance GPU core.

All other companies would have business constraints to implement all 3. But AMD has all the licenses, all the technology to create a (unified) hybrid instruction set, and lots of talented engineers to implement it. Yet, somehow they don't seem to be interested. I have no idea why.