Lenovo Celebrates 60 Millionth ThinkPad With Optimus Graphics

Celebrating the sales of sixty million ThinkPads over the past eighteen years, Lenovo on Wednesday announced immediate plans to add Nvidia's Optimus graphics to T Series models, and talked long-time intentions for innovations in areas such as location awareness and VoIP. I was briefed on the news by Dilip Bhatia, Lenovo's VP of ThinkPad marketing.

"But business users need Optimus, too," Bhatia told me, adding that as far as he knows, Lenovo's T Series are the first enterprise-class laptops to be outfitted with Optimus.

Lenovo's T series models are available to both enterprise customers and SMBs, although Lenovo's newer Edge series is directly targeted at smaller businesses.

The best battery life

"We also want to have the best battery life, and to run cooler and more reliably. Customers are very interested in voice over IP, and we're working on technologies to make VoIP more user-friendly. You can expect to see announcements in areas like these in the future, so stay tuned," according to Bhatia.