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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.'"
First of all, notice that the article says that the Ideapad they are reviewing has 128gb SSD. Don't try to compare an older model Ideapad with an Apple product that came out last week.
The Lenovo that's described in this article is actually a computer that runs the software that you choose instead of being a delivery system for Apple and their strategic partners.
One is a computer and the other is a digital picture frame with some fancy accessories.
And, any vendor in 2010 that sells a handheld or laptop device without a slot for an SD card is just saying "fuck off" to their customers. Apparently though, there is a portion of market that likes it when a company says "fuck off" to them, sort of like the people who line up for the Soup Nazi.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I don't want all the bother of a computer. I already have that. For a tablet/slate, I just want to run a few apps/games and get online. I want it to be easy. I don't really want to mess with the file system. I don't want a browser that's vulnerable to malware. I don't want to have to mess with drivers. I don't want to have to manually drag and drop or copy my music or pictures from my computer to my tablet (or worse, dick around with file sharing over a network). I just want the damn thing to do apps, games and Internet without any fuss. I bet the iPad will do that and do it well. I just wish some of the competitors actually understood that concept.
I dont want to have to dick around with my computer, for that matter... whats your point?
Nonsense. And on the contrary, it's only among geeks that Apple has any kind of significant following. On places like here on Slashdot, Apple are raved about all the time (indeed, this very story - a "story" that is just speculation, over a non-notable vaporware product, that hasn't even been released) is a perfect example of that. Most actually released tablets don't even get one single story.
In the real world, most people use Windows, they use phones other than the Iphone, and they don't give a shit about the Istale or whatever it is it's called this week.
Ah yes, it's the Ipod Fallacy, a classic logical fallacy of those enveloped by the RDF.
"The Ipod wasn't impressive to start with, yet it became very popular, therefore this new Apple device which is unimpressive will also be popular!"
If you say so. What's the current market share of Macs, or Iphones, btw? The Ipod is a one hit wonder - good enough for a company, sure, but it's a fallacy to assume that therefore every Apple product is now going to have the same success.
It's nothing new at all (and especially as the vaporware hasn't even been released yet). Tablets exist. Most people don't care about them, preferring to either go for smaller phones, or more functional and cheaper netbooks. No one cares about the Istale either, except for the fact that it's Apple means that the media bow down and give them tonnes of free hype.