An FCC filing by Realtek Semiconductor cites three ThinkPads that will use one of their wireless cards, with two unheard of models named.

We’ve heard a good deal about the ThinkPad X100e already, but the Mini 10 and Mini 11 are new. Some hypothesize that these could be the Intel Atom based ThinkPad netbooks, or another line of ThinkPads altogether, but I don’t think its either.

First of all, Dell and HP both use the Mini namesake for their netbooks. I suppose its not impossible that Lenovo is jumping on that bandwagon, but it would at the least be dumb. Also, names for new products certainly change over the course of the product’s development. It is perfectly feasible that when Lenovo supplied the product information to Realtek, likely many months ago, they had several potential product names and that is what was supplied by Realtek.

It just doesn’t make sense for Lenovo to have two lines of ThinkPad netbooks, or much less a separate CULV lineup, and in the end this is just paperwork.

Source: [Lilliputing]