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Ultra AI smart Another delight to see at BETT were the new Lenovo ThinkPads. Lenovo has a whole year of innovation planned for 2025 and worth a lift was the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition, currently the world’s lightest business Ultrabook, weighing in at 986g. This business notebook is ultra-thin, at just 14.37mm, and is AI-ready thanks to its powerful Intel processor and a battery life designed to last up to 18 hours. Lenovo Aura Edition laptops integrate various smart modes, one of them worth noting in the education sector is Smart Share. Smart Share is particularly handy for teachers as it provides smooth AI-enabled picture sharing between smartphones and laptops. Users can simply tap a supported smartphone on the screen edge and leveraging the capability of Elliptic Labs AI Virtual Sensor, the laptop will launch the Smart Share window on the PC and smartphone, enabling simple drag and drop transfer of recent photos between devices. IOS and Android platforms are supported. Happy teachers almost always equate to happy pupils. Another highlight was Lenovo’s expanded partnership with IGEL and its advancements in device security and management. Lenovo’s collaboration with IGEL OS has led to the seamless integration of IGEL’s Preventative Security Model across ThinkPad L14 Gen 4, ThinkCentre Neo50q, and M75q tiny desktop devices. This initiative significantly improves security and simplifies IT management for schools worldwide. The IGEL OS can be deployed on any device, enhancing security and extending hardware longevity, and has a pre-integrated security and policy-driven management reduce the complexity of endpoint protection. IGEL OS optimises Lenovo devices for SaaS, DaaS and VDI applications, improving remote learning capabilities. With cybersecurity becoming a
growing concern in education, Lenovo’s commitment to integrating IGEL OS ensures that educational institutions can protect student data, maintain compliance and streamline IT operations without significant overhead costs.
Purposeful HP’s colourful stand stood out,
thoughtfully demarcating workstations, printers, AI PCs, sustainability and more. This helps buyers to consider when they are making decisions about budgets and devices. HP’s Brighter Futures initiative continues to offer schools and colleges the chance to maximise their budgets by investing in new HP educational devices while gaining up to £150 when they trade-in their old devices. To date HP has collected and re-used or recycles more than 67,000 devices and provided some £7.8 million of support to schools in the UK.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition
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To date HP, has collected and re- used or recycles more than 67,000 devices and provided some £7.8 million of support to schools in the UK
Continuing to define educational innovation
BETT 2025 once again reinforced its status as the leading educational technology event. Looking ahead, the education sector is evolving rapidly alongside the evolution of the technology available and BETT remains at the heart of this transformation, showcasing the best the technology sector has to offer.
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BETT 2026 will be held from 21-23 January 2026.
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