IdeaPad U1, What We Wanted the iPad To Be

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday February 12, 2010 @08:22AM from the i'd-use-one-of-those dept.

Xanator writes "With the announcement of the iPad, the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid appears to have gone unnoticed, but maybe we ought to pay it more attention. It's a netbook with a removable screen that turns it into a tablet (switching OS from Windows 7 to a tablet OS within 3 seconds), and it appears to offer what many of us wanted from the iPad. Quoting Engadget: 'When docked, the U1 looks and feels like any other laptop, with an Intel CULV processor and a 128GB SSD running Windows 7 Home Premium. You actually wouldn't know there's a slate hiding in there — until you pull it out and watch it switch to Lenovo's Skylight UI, a process that was smooth and quick for us. Lenovo says the goal is for the full switch to occur in under 3 seconds.'"

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Re:nice, but by El+Lobo · 2010-02-12 08:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

But Apple has the advantage of their dumbed down and artificially limited OS and well known censured third partyapplications.
There, fixed that for ya.

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Re:nice, but by Ethanol-fueled · 2010-02-12 08:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

But...but...the iPad is four times as powerful as the iPhone!