Lenovo today announced its new ThinkPad R400 and R500 laptops. Its a 14.1-inch and 15.4-inch business notebooks, based on Intel Centrino 2 technology.

The R400, as same as the 15.4-inch R500, comes with Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors or Celeron CPUs, the GMA 4500HD integrated graphics, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, up to 320GB of HDD storage, a built-in optical drive with Blu-Ray burner choice, and the optional Intel Turbo Memory 2.0 module.

The R400 features a widescreen display with a resolution of 1280-by-800 or 1440-by- 900 pixels, the ThinkPad R500 has a resolution of 1280-by-800 or 1680-by-1050 pixels and an optional web camera mounted on the top of the LCD panel of both models.

Regarding communications, it sports Intel’s 802.11b/g wireless with optional support for 802.11n WiFi standard, a Gigabit Ethernet LAN port, Bluetooth, and 56k modem.

There are also three USB ports, Firewire, an ExpressCard slot, another slot that can be populated with SmartCard, multimedia card, or PC Card reader, as well as VGA output.

The ThinkPad R400 weighs around 5 pounds, the ThinkPad R500 weighs approximately 6.5 pounds and both runs Windows Vista OS.

Price starts at $956 and at $1,010 at the Lenovo store. The new Lenovo’s models are now available.