Lenovo plans to announce Tuesday that all of its X-, T- and R-series computers with Santa Rosa platforms will qualify for the Energy Star 4.0 rating that goes into effect on July 20.
The Energy Star program, which is overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, revised its voluntary set of energy efficiency standards for computers for the first time in over a decade. Among the standards required to garner an Energy Star 4.0 sticker is a decreased power consumption while a computer is idle.
Intel's Santa Rosa (Centrino Pro or Intel Duo) platform, which is being touted on many laptops, means that the computer contains a T7000-series dual-core CPU, 802.11n support and a GM965 chipset.
Lenovo is also offering a download to make any previously purchased Santa Rosa ThinkPad notebooks offer the same energy efficiency.
The company also announced the ThinkPad T61p, an Energy Star 4.0 notebook that has a 15.4-inch LCD screen, the Santa Rosa platform, Nvidia Quadro FX 570M graphics certified to the Open GL graphics GPU standard, Intel Centrino Pro mobile technology and an internal roll cage for both its motherboard and LCD screen.
Lenovo ThinkPad T61p
(Credit: Lenovo)The T61p notebook, which will be available July 17 starting at $1,814, also offers ultra-wideband (UWB), according to Tom Ribble, director of ThinkPad product marketing for Lenovo.
Lenovo ThinkPad roll cage for LCD screen and motherboard
(Credit: Lenovo)UWB is a next-generation frequency similar to Bluetooth that can be used for communicating with peripheral devices. UWB offers an average data exchange of about 100 megabits per second compared with Bluetooth's 3Mbps.
The Formula One racing team Lenovo co-sponsors with AT&T is using the T61p as part of the company's campaign to demonstrate the T61p's engineering computing power and robustness.
While Lenovo has been rolling out these features individually on its other computers, this is the first time the company has offered this combo of features, along with UWB capability on a notebook, said Ribble.
Wireless digital video connections are all the rage these days. Or at least saying you've made the appropriate chipset is. Companies keep putting out press releases promising that one day soon your television will be able to receive high-definition signals sans wires, but consumers have been, for the most part, left hanging.
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WiQuest Communications)
Though many have claimed to be first, Texas-based WiQuest Communications says its WQST100/101 chipset is "currently shipping to customers." That still doesn't give us an actual date as to when these will be sold as adapters for TVs, game consoles or DVD players, or better yet, integrated into the aforementioned gadgets.
WiQuest uses ultrawideband (UWB) technology to send video at 1Gbps between devices, and says that it even plays nice with other protocols like Certified Wireless USB and other WiMedia-based protocols.
There will be more news about wireless specs like this at CES, so stay tuned.
My mother would hate the way I just shove the tangle of wires behind my TV. It's the analog equivalent of sweeping dust under the rug.
The people at Tzero Technologies haven't met my mom (so far as I know), but they apparently understand her concerns. So they just moved a step closer to making good on their promise of wireless high-definition home entertainment.
The ultra wideband (UWB) chipset maker announced today that Siemens will be the first to incorporate Tzero's chips in its Ultra Wideband Multimedia Home Router. Tzero says the router, which will distribute Ethernet without wires at 300 megabits per second around the home, will be the first to use the technology.
Tzero and Analog Devices jointly announced their wireless High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) that will eliminate the need for cables to send HD signals between TVs, set-top boxes, disc players and gaming consoles last month. The first consumer electronics gadgets with integrated UWB chips for wireless networking are expected to reach the market in mid-2007.
In the meantime, if anyone asks, I can always explain my cord issues as a work of art.
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