IdeaPad U1, What We Wanted the iPad To Be

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.'"

Comments

Touchscreen looks bad/choppy

[kuzb]

Watch the videos where he's trying to do navigation. It seems like this is exactly what Apple doesn't want - lag and unreposonsiveness.

wanted?

[jDeepbeep]

it offers what many of us wanted from the iPad
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running Windows 7 Home Premium.

I couldn't make it further than this.

Re:But what did Apple want?

[Polumna]

Do yourself and your parents a favor and google "Notion Ink Adam." Unless you're married to the iTunes store, I literally cannot come up with one single reason to get an iPad instead... Assuming the thing comes out, it's just better in every way and for every conceivable purpose.

Re:But what did Apple want?

[roman_mir]

I always wait for VShael (62735) to express his opinion, so I would know what mine is.

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personally I never had an ipod, an iphone, an imac etc, never will have ipad, itouch, icrotch, ismack or icry. Then again, I don't own any mp3 players or phones with cameras.