Lenovo ThinkPad L Series is greenest to date

Lenovo has announced the newest entrants to its ThinkPad range, the L Series, and according to the company they’re the greenest notebooks on the market. Packing Intel Celeron, Core i3 and Core i5 processors together with either a 14-inch 16:9 display on the L412 or a 15-inch 16:9 display on the L512, the range kicks off at $649 but offers up to 8hrs of runtime.

Graphics are either courtesy of Intel’s integrated chipset or an ATI Mobility Radeon chip, while there’s also optional 3G/4G wireless thanks to a universal Gobi 2000 module (supporting Sprint, AT&T and Verizon). Four USB 2.0 ports, a combo eSATA/USB, DisplayPort and VGA are standard, as is a multitouch-capable trackpad, and OS is Windows 7 with Lenovo’s own tweaks for speedier booting and shut-down.

As for those earth-friendly claims, Lenovo say the new machines use up to 30-percent recycled content, such as old office water bottles, to make LCD covers, palm rests and other casing components. They’re also 40-percent more energy efficient than the generation of machines they replace. On sale from mid-May 2010, $649 gets you a Celeron P4500 with 160GB HDD and 1GB of RAM.