[photopress:lenovo_olympics_1.jpg,full,alignright]As the 500-day countdown to the 2008 Beijing Games arrives today, China’s Lenovo says it has completed the second of three hardware deliveries to the Games’ Integration Test Centre.
More than 30 Lenovo staffers are now working at the integration lab with various partners, with equipment tests starting in July and ending only weeks before the Beijing Games are due to begin on August 8 next year.
Lenovo, the exclusive computing equipment supplier, says virtually every aspect of the management of the Games, from gathering and storing participant data to displaying the scores to organising official activities, depends on its hardware.
As of today, Lenovo will have provided approximately 300 servers, 800 desktops, 800 monitors and 70 notebooks. By the time the Games start, Lenovo says it will have delivered more than 14,000 pieces of computing equipment to support 56 venues in seven cities, including 39 competition venues and 17 data centers.
At the current Consumer Electronic Show in the United States, the company also released new lines of notebooks: The ThinkPad X60 and ThinkPad T60 lines.
The X60 line is the successor to the thin-and-light X40 line and comes with Intel’s Core Duo processors, formerly code-named Yonah. Although the chips have two processing cores, the computers will consume up to 37% less energy than current models. With the supplemental battery, some models will run for nearly 11 hours on a single charge. The maximum battery time on current models with the supplemental battery is about eight hours.
Source: Web Wire