Lenovo IBM's interest in Lenovo fell below the 5% threshold that mandates public disclosure. IBM's Intel based server lines, including IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter were sold to Lenovo in 2014. Lenovo says it will gain access to more enterprise customers, improve its profit margins, and develop a closer relationship with Intel, the maker of most server processors, through its acquisition of IBM's x86-based server business. On 1 October 2014, Lenovo closed its acquisition of IBM's server division, with the final price put at $2.1 billion. Lenovo said this acquisition came in at a price lower than the previously announced
ThinkPad W series are: The Lenovo W541 is essentially a ThinkPad W540 that featured the new-style keyboard but with a re-introduction of the classic ThinkPad trackpad design. The prior ThinkPad trackpad design featured in the W540 was abandoned. Rather than being a successor of any previous W-series model, the Lenovo W550s is a thinner Ultrabook variant of the W series. While a capable Ultrabook, when compared to the W541 and its predecessors, it offers less capability with only dual-core hyper-threaded Intel Broadwell Processors vs. the true quad-core processors of other models and has only two RAM slots. The ThinkPad W series was replaced