Lenovo U1 Ideapad

Ipads and stand-alone slate PCs will never work for me. Before I bought my current laptop, I had been waiting for the ipad for almost a year. But when they finally released it, I was disappointed. The specs were short of a full laptop. That's why I got myself a Lenovo S10-3t netbook instead. It's a touchscreen laptop in its conventional form and neatly converts into a slate-like PC when you rotate the screen 180 degrees. But after over a year of using it, I have to admit that it's quite on the heavy side for a slate PC. I wished there was a way I could pull out the screen and still do some web browsing, email, ebook reading, and games on it. A friend of mine informed me that there was actually a solution to this problem --- the Lenovo U1 Ideapad.

Now, here's what I call a true innovation! It looks like a geared up netbook ready for full productivity use. But when you want to just want to chill out, just slide the screen and voila! You have a slate PC that automatically switches to its own native OS. ITProPortal reports that as a netbook, it is powered by an Intel CULV processor (1.2GHz Core i5-540UM) rather than an Atom one, packs 2GB onboard RAM, 320GB hard disk drive and Windows 7 Home Premium, one USB port and HDMI. The tablet is a 10.1-inch 1280x800 pixels device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip with 1GB RAM and either 16GB or 32GB flash storage with Wi-Fi, 3G and a front facing camera. Lenovo says that it has a battery life of up to eight hours, is powered by Android 2.2 and is rather chubby at 760g.


I can't wait to get my hands on this baby!