#Lenovo Smartbook

Lenovo got a lot of press lately with some of the most innovative products unveiled at CES. One of their new products is the Lenovo Skylight smartbook. Lenovo Skylight is the first ARM-based processor smartbook device based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset platform which combines the features of a smartphone and a netbook into one. Lenovo Skylight 10.1" display screen @ 1280x720 pixels 4GB USB reader (up to 16GB) 1GHz Snapdragon ARM processor WiFi 802.11 b/g 3G/HSDPA 1.3MP webcam The Skylight runs on a customized Linux OS and boasts of a 10-hour battery life. Lenovo sent us an exhaustive list yesterday of their new PC offerings in time for CES but they omitted this one which I liked the most -- a hybrid tablet and touchscreen netbook in one called the IdeaPad U1. The netbook part runs an Intel Core 2 Duo SU4100 1.3GHz with Windows 7 but if you take off the screen and use the tablet alone, it's powered by a Qualcomm ARM Snapdragon processor (same CPU in HTC HD2 and Nexus One phones) so it's basically a smartphone in a netbook (thus the term smartbook). Lenovo is entering the “netbook” market with the IdeaPad S9 and S10. Weighing just above 09.kg, the one-inch thick Lenovo Ideapad will use the Intel Atom processor. Read more in our articles including "Lenovo Skylight Smartbook" and "Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Smartbook".