Lenovo unveils notebook with touch keyboard

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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Wow, neat!

https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/31/lenovo-yoga-book-preview/

Available with Android ($500) or Windows ($550) in October. 1.52 pounds, 10.1" 1920x1200 IPS screen, Atom X5, 8500mAh battery (15 hours of general use). Similar to a Microsoft Surface book, the screen can flip all the way back:

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Key feature is what they call the "Create Pad". It's basically a Wacom drawing tablet with a few key features:

1. Large keys outline under the surface for you to type on as a keyboard. Lenovo says it takes about 2 hours to get used to, although the article's author doubts that & had a lot of trouble with types while using it.

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2. With a tap of a button, the keys disappear & it becomes a drawing & writing tablet. You can use it as a traditional Wacom tablet with the included pen.

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3. The included pen is called the Real Pen because you can swap out the nub with a real ink pen. The point of this is to clamp on a piece of paper over the tablet & write as you normally would on a real piece of paper, but it also carbon-copies your input digitally into the computer.

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4. It apparently also supports live handwriting recognition via OCR:
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Pretty wild design! I think typing on the keyboard would be garbage (maybe better with Swype & Autocorrect), but as a portable writing & drawing tablet, COOL!
 
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IronWing

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Reading the specs on the sensor array, I thought it might be a marital aid. :p

Vibrator
G-Sensor
Ambient Light Sensor
Hall Sensor
GPS


I also think it's pretty cool.

Edit: My wife just came in and looked at it. This might work as a stand-in for the iPad Pro she sort of wants but doesn't want to pay $1k+ for.
 
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