Look at the bright orange Lenovo!

The new Lenovo IdeaPad U300 has some interesting specs and is going after the Ultra PC market that seems to be the new must have design for the ULTRA CHIC!

But, if you are a road warrior you want to have a really functional PC that is light and doesn’t take up much space. This is one of the reasons that I run around with and iPad under my arm and what would interest me in Lenovo’s Ultrabook™ design.

Here is a list of the U300’s best features:

• Slim, Ultrabook™ design for easy mobility, from just 0.6” thin
• Minimalist, one-piece aluminum shell, available in Graphite Gray or Clementine Orange (coming soon)
• Long battery life* with up to 30 days standby time
• Lenovo RapidCharge brings battery charge to 50 percent in 30 minutes
• Boot in as little as 10.5 seconds with RapidDrive SSD technology**
• Breathable keyboard uses Intel® Advanced Cooling Technology to improve airflow so PC can run cooler on your lap
• Cool-touch palmrest and intelligent glass touchpad with easy scroll, zoom and rotate functions
• HD graphics and stereo speakers with SRS® Premium Surround Sound™
• USB 3.0 port, HDMI output and 1.3M (720p HD) webcam
• Intel® Wireless Display (WiDi): wirelessly stream content from your laptop onto a big screen (requires TV adapter)
• BIOS-embedded anti-theft protection

U300s Tech Specs

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Google continues to build on its Solar Energy Investment

PR: Ending the year with another clean energy investment.

Google has added another $94 million investment of four solar photovoltaic projects that is being built by Recurrent Energy near Sacromento, CA. This brings their entire investment in Solar Energy to $915 million. They have also committed themselves to providing funding to help more than 10,000 homeowners to install solare PV panels on their rooftops. They go on to state that this $94 million investment represents a much larger scale result than the individual rooftop installations providing a total capacity of 88 MW of energy, equivalent to the electricity consumed by more than 13,000 homes.

Google isn’t the sole investor in this project. They are investing with KKR and Recurrent Energy.Google’s posting states:

We’re joining KKR on their first renewable energy investment in the U.S. We believe investing in the renewable energy sector makes business sense and hope clean energy projects continue to attract new sources of capital to help the world move towards a more sustainable energy future

The energy produced by these projects is already contracted for 20 years with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). SMUD recently created a feed-in tariff program (FIT) to help green the grid for Sacramento-area residents. We’re excited that these projects are the first to be built under the program.
We’ve had a busy year at Google. Since January, we’ve invested more than $880 million in clean energy projects. We believe the world needs a wide range of solutions—from wind, to transmission, to solar PV and concentrated solar—and we look forward to new opportunities next year to further expand our portfolio of clean energy investments.