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Today Lenovo officially announces three new IdeaPad notebooks, although two of them have been in public already. The new notebooks consist of the IdeaPad U150, U550, and Y550p.
We had already been introduced to the U150 and U550, at least informally. The U150 is an 11.6-inch 16:9 notebook available with Intel’s Celeron, Pentium, and Core 2 Duo processors. To keep the weight down to around 3 lb and thickness less than an inch, you won’t find an optical drive on the U150. Overall it looks to be a smaller version of the U350 and priced in the same $599-$799 range.
The IdeaPad U550 has actually been available for purchase for the last few days at Lenovo.com, and as we knew it is a 15.6-inch 16:9 notebook. You’ll find Celeron, Pentium, Core 2 Solo, and Core 2 Duo processors in it, along with the option for ATI HD4330 512MB graphics. An optical drive is built-in, but they were still able to keep the weight down to 5.29 lb and a little over 1 inch thick.
The laptop we haven’t heard about yet is the Y550p. The ‘p’ moniker denotes high performance models in the ThinkPad line, and even though the IdeaPad U450p isn’t so high performance, the Y550p definitely is. Intel’s new quad-core Core i7 processor is the standard CPU, with the Turbo Boost feature I posted about previously. You’ll also find NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M graphics with 1GB VRAM, available Blu-ray drive, and a large 15.6-inch 16:9 LCD. The Y550p is a little larger at 1.45-inches thick and 6 lb., but that’s not a bad size for the powerful processor in a package that will retail for around $1399.
Hit the jump for the full tech specs and image gallery
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