What with all the hoo-hah on Wednesday over the release of Mac OS X Lion and updates to the Mac mini and MacBook Air, one nice new piece of Cupertinian kit slipped in under the radar: what Apple calls the “World’s First Thunderbolt Display”.
That’s Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Air sitting in front of the 27-inch Thunderbolt Display (click to enlarge)
The 27-inch Thunderbolt Display has an LED-backlit, 2560-by-1440 pixel, 16:9, in-plane swtiching (IPS) screen, which Apple says has a brightness of 375 cd/m2 and a 1000:1 contrast ratio.
A single two-ended cable attaches to a Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Pro or Air, one lead going to the notebook’s MagSafe power port, and the other to its Thunderbolt port.
In addition to the IdeaPad Tablet K1, Lenovo plans to release its new IdeaPad Tablet P1 Windows 7 Tablet during Q4. It comes with a body that measures 14.5mm thin and weighs in at less than 2 pounds, it is powered by an Intel 1.5GHz processor, an integrated HD graphics, up to 64GB SSD for storage and up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM.