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The Lenovo design and engineering team has been working on this one for well over a year. It started out as a idea: let’s build the most advanced ThinkPad ever, in the thinnest and lightest package possible. What a great opportunity to exercise the world class technical capabilities of the Lenovo team. The best engineers and designers thrive on challenges like this. Who wouldn’t?

I was fortunate to have met Steve Hamm from BusinessWeek magazine early in the process and shared with him several design concepts that we were working on. Steve was so interested in the work we were doing that he asked to become a “fly on the wall” for the entire development cycle. Wow. A journalist integrated into the Lenovo inner workings was a totally new idea with lots potential reward, but also risk. After a few interesting discussions we decided to bring him into the fray.

Yesterday the article resulting from this endeavour went live on the BusinessWeek website. Steve tells the story much better there than I could ever do. I hope you enjoy the peek behind the curtain into the development of what I believe is the best ThinkPad we have ever made. We are one giant step closer to perfect.