Cellular World Congress, the annual commerce present devoted primarily to the cell communications trade, has returned to Barcelona. Whereas not the primary yr of MWC for the reason that pandemic began (it’s now formally referred to as MWC, perhaps as a result of Cellular World Congress sounds about as thrilling as a legislative physique), 2023 was the primary with the really bustling halls we bear in mind from 2019 and earlier than.
What was introduced there? True, producers have gotten into the behavior of unveiling their high units at their very own occasions—however there was nonetheless loads of new tech to tout at MWC 2023. Listed below are among the highlights.
Lenovo ThinkPads Get a Rethink
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Proving that “cell” doesn’t need to imply mobile phone, Lenovo introduced a bunch of refreshes of its good, if reassuringly costly, ThinkPad strains at MWC 2023.
The ThinkPad X13 Gen 4 will get new-generation Intel Core I-series processors and, as senior product supervisor Matej Misturik defined, one of many heats vents has been moved to the rear. This stops the laptop from overheating if the underside is blocked.
Lighter weight and an OLED panel carry a bit of 2023 gloss to one of the revered enterprise laptop computer strains.
Need extra apparent gloss? Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 Gen 2 line flips the order of priorities, as a high-end ultraportable with ThinkPad parts. At first look, not a lot has modified right here bar using 7000-series AMD processors.
Nonetheless, Sensel tells us its haptic touchpads exchange these of the moderately vague-feeling Thinkpad Z13 Gen 1. “Lenovo wasn’t pleased with their answer, for quite a lot of causes, so we have been capable of slot in for Gen 2,” says Sensel’s Mark Rosenberg. “You need a crisp click on really feel that fires after which dampens in a short time, to extra carefully emulate a mechanical button—in any other case it feels and sounds buzzy, which isn’t nice.”
