Metro support

ABB, a power and automation technology group, announced last week it has won a $4.85 million order to offer MNS low voltage switchgears to Beijing Metro Line 4 project.

The reward decision is based on ABB's success in Beijing Metro Line 1, Line 2 and Batong Line projects.

Under the terms of the contract, above 600 sets of MNS low voltage switchgears will be delivered to Beijing Metro in two batches in September and November of this year. Beijing Subway Co purchased 300 low voltage switchgear units from ABB Xiamen Low Voltage Equipment Co Ltd, in 1996, to upgrade the capital city's Metro Line 1 and 2.

Pre-install deal

Lenovo Group became the first PC maker in the world to release models optimized for Windows Vista and estimates it will sell several million computers pre-installed with Vista this year.

The world's third-largest computer maker demonstrated about 10 new computers as well as printers in Beijing and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, two days after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates demonstrated the software at the CES.

With Microsoft expected to release the new operating systems to consumers on January 30, computer makers are looking to it to boost sales.

While mainstream computers in the Chinese market use one-core processors from Intel or AMD, Windows Vista requires dual-core processors and a memory of at least 2 gigabytes for optimal performance.

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