High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first laptop in the IdeaPad U Series was the U110 launched in 2008 by Lenovo. Showcased at CES 2008, the laptop also launched the IdeaPad series itself, and received the Best of CES 2008 award. The IdeaPad U Series represented a series of Lenovo’s consumer line of laptops, combining Lenovo’s traditional engineering with design changes that were significantly different from ThinkPad products.