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Lenovo Wins Good Design Awards

January 8, 2007 Post a Comment (3 Comments)

I recently heard from Tomoyuki Takahashi, Yamato Design Center manager in Japan, that we received a “G Mark” or Good Design Award for several products. G Mark is the name of the design award issued by the Japanese Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO), and is probably the most prestigious design award in Japan.

The models you folks in the U.S. will recognize are:

Lenovo ThinkPad X60/X60s series
Lenovo ThinkPad T60 series
Lenovo ThinkPad R60 series
Lenovo 3000 C200 series

We’re very proud to have our products so highly revered. In fact, the C200 has been getting a lot of positive press lately (See my previous posts).

One product that was awarded a G Mark which some of you may not recognize is the Lenovo Tianyi F20 (G Mark page), shown below in red. This machine is only available in China currently, but sparked quite a bit of interest when it was debuted last year. Notice the Olympic logo on it, in commemoration of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, which we were a proud sponsor of.

As always, for bigger and more pictures check out our Flickr account.

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We launch another blog

December 6, 2006 Post a Comment (68 Comments)

You knew we couldn't stop with just one.

So we launched another, this one by Matt Kohut, Lenovo's competitive analyst, but in my eyes, the DemoHero of the company. Matt knows our products frontwards and backwards and racks up a bazillion frequent flier miles every year to show off our stuff. What David Hill and the design teams create, Matt demos. Please check out Inside the Box and bookmark our new master page which will aggregate all blogs — existing and planned at Lenovoblogs.com.

Matt's most recent post may be heresy to some, but it asks the question, "What is the most useless feature on a ThinkPad?" I won't give away his nomination, but the more I think about it, the more I agree with it.