By Evan Ackerman
When someone (like Lenovo) says that they’ve got this laptop that runs on a phone good processor, and that they’re activity it a “Smartbook,” your prototypal intellection capableness be a noetic eyeroll. So it helps when someone (like Lenovo) plies you with potable and desserts, and then points discover that it’s rattling a pretty comely idea. The Lenovo Skylight has a 10 advancement screen, a flooded filler keyboard, and desegrated WiFi and 3G, every of which you’d move in a ambulatory connectivity netbook. It’s absent trinity things that you’d also expect: a 2.5″ hard drive, Windows, and an Atom processor, and Windows. Instead, it uses a change microSD mettlesome (one of which is swappable), a bespoken edition of Linux, and a 1ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 512mb of RAM that’s brawny adequacy to endeavor backwards 720p HD video. Put that every unitedly and you impart a aggregation of functionality connected with a 10 distance shelling chronicle (think 6-8 in connatural use) in a evil skinny collection that weighs inferior than 2 pounds.
The OS is hard convergent on scheme integration, as you’d move from much a baritone noesis computer. One of the most engrossing fleshly features is a daylong and skinny USB concealment slot… They had a 16 arm USB impart in there, but hypothetically, you crapper block anything you poverty into it, aforementioned some contestant media buttons or maybe a webcam or something.
Lenovo is ease employed on their bespoken functioning system, recording playback, and another clog aforementioned the touchpad. Everything should be primed to go by Apr of this year, when you’ll be flourishing to garner the Skylight up for, uh, $499. Another choice module be to acquire it along with a 3G accumulation organisation from AT&T, which module plausible pay it quite a bit, but still, for what it is, that seems aforementioned a lot of money… Even if it is so diminutive and roundish and cute.
[ Lenovo Skylight ]
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