Lenovo IdeaPad Y480 visits the FCC

By George Wong on 03/15/2012, filed in Home > Computers

Lenovo IdeaPad Y480 visits the FCC Lenovo’s IdeaPad Y480 was introduced at CES this year, and made a brief appearance on Amazon’s website before being pulled off. Now it looks like the notebook has surfaced again, this time at the offices of the FCC. While the FCC visit doesn’t really give us any new details about the IdeaPad Y480, it does mean that the notebook is one step closer to hitting the stores.

The IdeaPad Y480 is a high-performance notebook designed to be a desktop replacement. It features an Intel Core i7 processor, a 14″ or 15.6″ display, Dolby Home Theater technology and JBL-designed speakers, up to 8GB of RAM, up to 1TB HDD, DVD or Blu-ray drive, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0, a memory card reader, HDMI support and a 1-megapixel HD webcam. Pricing for the notebook should start at $999.

Lenovo: Lenovo Group Limited, commonly known as Lenovo, is a Chinese consumer electronics company that is based in Morrisville, North Carolina. The company was founded in 1984 in Beijing, China by Chinese businessman Liu Chuanzhi, and was eventually incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988 under its former name, Legend. Lenovo became a publicly traded company after listing in Hong Kong in 1994. The name Lenovo, which is a shortened portmanteau of the words Legend and the Latin word "novo" (meaning: new) was officially used in 2003 when the company announced its plans to develop outside China. Lenovo's products include personal computers, notebooks, tablets, AIOs, mobile phones, servers, storage devices, workstations, and more. Lenovo is one of the world's largest PC vendors.

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