Last week, more than 225 recent college graduates began their new jobs at Lenovo's Beijing office. During the orientation meeting, they had an unexpected visitor: Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing. (Or, as many call him, "YY.") He spoke off the cuff to the group, sharing his thoughts on the company, the future and the opportunity before them. Below are excerpts from his conversation with a future generation of Lenovians... * * * * * 25 years ago, I was as young as you are when I joined Lenovo. I had the same passion, dreams and hopes as you do today. I worked from being a sales guy all the way up to the challenging role that I have today, developing my own career while contributing to Lenovo’s success. During the same period, Lenovo grew from just an agent for foreign brands operating only in China to the global leader in the PC market. Nowadays kids look at me and call me “Uncle” but Lenovo does not get old. Know why? Because we always have fresh blood like you joining us! Today we live in the internet age. To us it means big changes in our lifestyle.  But to you, it’s no change at all because the internet has always been part of your life. That’s why Lenovo needs you--you can help us innovate and accelerate Lenovo’s transformation. At Lenovo, your career has no ceiling. Lenovo is unique. We are the most global among the companies that started from China, yet the most local among the global companies...

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Last week my three year old daughter watched Toy Story for the first time.  Not surprisingly, Woody, had a big effect on her.  After the movie, she spent a lot more time with her older toys.  She had a new found appreciation for the toys who comforted her as she made the leap from baby to “big kid”.  I think that is how I feel about the ThinkStation 30 Series.  On August 12, Lenovo introduced the new ThinkStation P Series; the products that will replace the 30 Series.  The response has been incredible.  The press, customers, hardware and software partners, are all very excited about the new products.  And a lot of extremely talented people have worked tirelessly, with an intense focus on the customer, to make the P Series a reality.  I think I speak for many of my colleagues when I say, the P Series has truly been a labor of love.  But what about 30 Series?  What about Woody?  Without question, the new ThinkStation P Series takes workstation computing to new heights.  But doesn’t the 30 Series deserve an appropriate send off? Because, honestly, without the ThinkStation 30 Series, there is no P Series. From the time it was introduced, the 30 Series delivered exactly what you would expect from a Think branded workstation; high quality, ultra-reliable, and of course….it was black.  The 30 Series took the Lenovo workstation business from being a baby, and made it...

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“Arts Enlighten Technology, Technology Drives Arts.” This famous remark of John Alan Lasseter, the founder of Pixar and winner of two Academy Awards, mirrored the importance of technology in 3D animated films. Dragon Nest: Rise of the Black Dragon, China's most expensive 3D animated feature film, has featured exquisite production that is beyond compare in many aspects in China’s animation sector. Lenovo ThinkStation workstations were the powerhouses behind the creative, with integrated solutions from front-end visual design to back-end rendering. At the eve of the launch of Dragon Nest: Rise of Black Dragon, we paid a visit to Mili Pictures’ production base in Suzhou to explore the “birth of the dragon”.     Witnessing the production of every scene Dragon Nest's production was created using the highest standard of workstations in China’s animated film sector. Different movies (even different scenes of one movie) have different requirements for workstations. Moreover, art and image design, scene design, special effects production and composition also have different requirements for workstations. ThinkStation provides solutions for all these different needs. For instance, art work and other early stage departments don’t have a high requirement for hardware, but they need to be incredibly stable. To cater to such a need, Lenovo provided E31 ThinkStation workstations. The animation...

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If you use CAD/CAE or just creative applications, have you ever thought about why you need to upgrade your workstations, and if there is a real timetable you should follow?  If so, here are four things to consider: 1) Design and creation activities are critical to your success, they represent your competitive advantage. This starts with you, the engineer and/or creative person who conceive the idea and the design. In addition, it includes the methods you use to design it, the software you use and the hardware that runs the software. Also very important, is how fast you design and create, as you can’t afford to get behind the competition, or miss a critical due date. All these things combine to give you a creative and innovative competitive edge. Both creation and schedules are two critical elements of your success. 2) Nothing is stagnant in this world, and this is true for the world of design and creativity. For example, new features are constantly being added to your design and the design is being shared in new ways using software like Product Life Cycle Management. Designers learn more from organizations like manufacturing and adapt their designs according to the latest technology trends available. In addition, the software they use changes, new revisions come out, new fixes and even additional software features to take into account. Designers want to know more about their design decisions and attach histories and notes to the design files. All of...

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STUDENTS, UNDERGRADS, FRESHMEN. Summer's almost over! Since you've been a busy bee the past few weeks, we've decided to lend a hand and help you gather the tools you need to discover that Rory Gilmore in you. Go ahead, load your Yoga Tablet with these apps and fight your way to become Editor-In-Chief of the school's paper. #1. Evernote Being a proactive, roving worker bee is part and parcel of being a journalist. While you’re out doing fieldwork, you may not have the luxury of sitting down to capture the story. Jot your notes on Evernote while you're interviewing your lead, work on your story on-the-go or access it from your desk, all on Tilt Mode. #2. Skype Does your story require you to talk to people from all around the world? You'll be relieved to use Skype in Stand Mode to make your international calls without being charged for overseas calls on your mobile and conducting video chats with your interviewee over the Internet....

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