Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 Hybrid sports a truly innovative design
Date: Sun 01/10/2010 Tag: Innovative, Laptops, Product Design, Technology

CES , Lenovo made its biggest splash since it acquired IBM’s PC division in 2005. Among the company’s new product announcements was the Ideapad U1 Hybrid–a category-busting laptop designed for the age of Transformers. From the outside, it looks like a curvy 11.6-inch netbook. But once you open it, you realize the screen pops right out of the body. When you hold the screen in your hands it becomes a touch screen tablet. Presto change-o. Yet, it gets better: when the screen is attached to the body of the netbook, it operates as a computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM, Windows 7 and a 128GB solid state drive. But the screen is outside the body, it operates as an independent tablet computer, complete with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a Linux OS, 512MB of RAM and 16GB of flash memory. The 2-for-1 U1 won’t ship to consumers until June, and should sell for about $1,000.




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