Judging by the crowds it attracted, the hit of the opening event of CES 2010 was Lenovo's IdeaPad U1, a hybrid laptop/tablet due on sale in the second half of the year.
A flurry of tablets had been expected - not least because Apple is thought to be on the verge of launching one - but Lenovo's is a bit different. In conventional mode it looks and works like a normal netbook, but the screen can be detached from the keyboard and used separately as a touchscreen tablet.
Intriguingly, it uses two different operating systems - Windows 7 when in laptop mode and a Linux-based system as a tablet.
From the brief demo of the prototype, it's hard to tell how useful the tablet element will be, but it's a neat idea that may tempt people who want the best of both worlds.
Lenovo would not be drawn on prices, but acknowledged that it would not be competing with the cheapest netbooks.
A flurry of tablets had been expected - not least because Apple is thought to be on the verge of launching one - but Lenovo's is a bit different. In conventional mode it looks and works like a normal netbook, but the screen can be detached from the keyboard and used separately as a touchscreen tablet.
Intriguingly, it uses two different operating systems - Windows 7 when in laptop mode and a Linux-based system as a tablet.
From the brief demo of the prototype, it's hard to tell how useful the tablet element will be, but it's a neat idea that may tempt people who want the best of both worlds.
Lenovo would not be drawn on prices, but acknowledged that it would not be competing with the cheapest netbooks.
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