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Lenovo Shows Android Laptop In Leaked User Manuals

Posted by timothy on from the cross-pollination dept.

itwbennett writes "PC maker Lenovo accidentally posted manuals on its website showing an Android laptop called the IdeaPad A10. Lenovo spokesman Chris Millward said the company had planned on making an official announcement for the device, and that 'the product has not been canceled. It will be going out to the market.' Launch dates and pricing to come, but specs show that it could be a budget product."

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  1. The nightmare that keeps MS awake.... by jkrise · · Score: 5, Interesting

    has arrived. Android on PCs and Linux on tablets are both wonderful for innovation; and doomsday for Microsoft.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2013/01/12/the-nightmare-that-keeps-microsoft-awake-android-on-the-desktop/

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  2. Re:Actually, this is kinda nice... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since, obviously, the fact that it uses an ARM/runs Android is evidence it's a mobile device, and not a computer.

    Why is that? Because that ARM device running Android does a crap load more than the first PCs I owned.

    If it's Turing complete, it's a computer. If it's got a general instruction set in the CPU, it's a computer. Running Android or being on an ARM processor doesn't magically make it not a computer.

    Modern 'mobile devices' have far more computational power than any PC made 10 years ago -- and they were still called computers.

    I don't understand where this arbitrary distinction of "that's not a computer" comes from. Because it's wrong.

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