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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Touchscreen looks bad/choppy by kuzb · 2010-02-12 09:06 · Score: 4, Informative

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

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wanted? by jDeepbeep · 2010-02-12 09:53 · Score: 4, Informative

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.

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