In pictures: a dismantled ThinkPad

Sep 12, 2012

Lenovo's Kevin Beck takes apart the PC maker's tough notebooks.

Lenovo product evangelist and competitive analyst Kevin Beck stopped by Australia on whirlwind media tour to rip apart a ThinkPad and demonstrate the strength of the notebook.
<p>Lenovo's latest offering, the Carbon X1 carbon-fibre ultrabook, was the first to use carbon-fibre as its shell over magnesium alley or aluminium. Beck said the number one cause of damage to a laptop screen is "back-damage", from the lid of the laptop, not to the screen itself. Beck dropped a snooker ball onto each of the materials to demonstrate why Lenovo chose to go with carbon-fibre.</p>  
 
Lenovo product evangelist and competitive analyst Kevin Beck stopped by Australia on whirlwind media tour to rip apart a ThinkPad and demonstrate the strength of the notebook.

Lenovo's latest offering, the Carbon X1 carbon-fibre ultrabook, was the first to use carbon-fibre as its shell over magnesium alley or aluminium. Beck said the number one cause of damage to a laptop screen is "back-damage", from the lid of the laptop, not to the screen itself. Beck dropped a snooker ball onto each of the materials to demonstrate why Lenovo chose to go with carbon-fibre.

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