im excited about tech again

>>56429369
How is a legal pad technology?

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>>56429419
because it produces digitized images from ink written notes

>>56429467
This has been around forever. They've been around for years.

writing on paper

wow what incredible innovation

Lenovo is really leading the pack here

>>56429369
Wacom makes one and you can use any tablet you want next to it.

>>56429467
pink_pokemon.jpg

>>56429613
Yes, but they're paying him to shill this one, not the wacom one.

Also wasn't there a project to make a flexible screen kind of like a notepad?

>>56429467
"Digital notebook"
DDGo it.

>>56429369
What's the relevance of Apple here?

>>56429695
stay mad mac fag

>>56430487
They don't innovate

>>56431423

mac book hasn't changed since 2003 - over a decade of non innovation

now its 2016, and this changes nothing again

>>56429467
>because it produces digitized images from ink written notes

I've got something like this in a box somewhere. It was for Palm PDA's. I think I bought it about 18 years ago.

>>56431423
>>56431478
Apple seems to really have your jimmies in a tangle.

>>56431544
note transferring is just one feature of that generic attached tablet

>>56429369
This looks cool but doesn't seem like something I'd use.

What exactly makes this tablet stand out from the rest of the tablets that exist now? tablets themselves are just crappier laptops so I don't understand the appeal.

>>56429598
That is a second screen.

>>56431620
Mostly it's a budget device for students. It is a low end digitizer for note taking and media consumption. Really it's exactly the right mark for students.

>>56429369
Didn't IBM make this exact thing 15 years ago?

I guess Lenovo got the patents along with ThinkPad.

>>56429369
And we'll still use paper, because that's legally admissible in court.

Drawings in a paper notebook are legally admissible in patent cases, digital notebooks are not

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IBM ThinkPad TransNote

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:TransNote

Reminds me of the IBM Transnote and the canceled Microsoft Courier except not as good.

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>>56433548
>the canceled Microsoft Courier
Mang I remember how furiously hyped I was over this product. When was that, 10 years ago? Why did MS abandon the project? It was the only good idea they had in years, this could have revolutionized the digital world...

>>56429568
Mostly in very shit formats, without mass technology appeal.
>1990s PDA
>No size for storage, meaning it can't be used
>Export to remove everything is messy

>Its a windows tool
>Its tied to Word, neglecting anything that could be a advantage

Wacom digitizer is in "keyboard" and not in screen. Why would i want this when I can get a convertible with digitizer build into the screen so I don't need fucking paper to see what I'm writing? Surface and the like are a million times more usuable than this shit.

>>56435609
different form factor

>>56432052
suddenly he became overwhelmed by his presumptions about implications of suggestions

>>56429369
What's the endgame?

>>56432353
I saw someone using that on bus lul.

>>56429369
How many dollars

>>56436598
5-6 hunned

>>56429369
>implying steve jobs didn't invent that years ago, but then they found out it was shit and let it go
kys

Tried taking notes on my thin pad x220t and it was pretty shit, maybe because I don't have good handwriting

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>>56437998

steve jobs
>invent
mmm...nnaaaaah

>>56438259
scribbling on paper is usually better, but we'll see - no one's really used this for real yet

>>56438262
Points for politely shilling an aesthetically pleasing product pahjeet. 2 extra rupees in your account today. Unfortunately it's not any better than any other product with a digitizer so there's no reason to buy it

>rotringer 600 0.5mm
>random note pad
this desu senpai

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>>56438286

its more about the right combination of features, grampa

which remains to be seen

>>56436235
What's the benefit of not drawing directly on the screen like with a surface pro or something?

>>56438430
i would presume the texture of paper and the feedback that glass can't reproduce

also, you get a paper original, which some people like - it's a weird amalgam, i know

there's other advantages to the split "screen" format, the absence of a keyboard, and the availability of two input panels, with the keyboard panel being versatile enough to be modified programmatically

hi guys i succ my own dick

>>56435353
>Mostly in very shit formats, without mass technology appeal.
>>1990s PDA
no no no, the tech was around in a mature form a decade ago, it's just that nobody wanted them.

>>56429369
how did they make a lablet that didn't need a kickstand? It looks like the keyboard portion is so light to balance the top

Looks super fishy to me

Give me one reason to trust Lenovo again.

>>56438376
kys pedo

>>56438551

it wasn't really mature, was it?

it wasn't that portable - transnote was okay, but you wouldn't put that in a coat pocket

how this unit actually does with typing will determine its actual utility:

"Lenovo's press release promised "the best possible touch-typing experience," and the upper surface was rough to the touch, rather than glossy smooth, to help prevent fast-typing fingers from sliding on contact. And haptic feedback gave our typing fingers a little buzz when they hit the keys.

But while the letters F and J on the demo unit's keyboard were underscored, they weren't raised like they would be on a physical keyboard. And I did find myself wandering off course a little during a touch-typing demo

Lenovo looks to have considered this, however, and has built in some forgiveness wiggle room for less-than-accurate keying. The system is reported capable of learning typing behavior and, if a user frequently hits below the space bar or taps slightly right of a letter key, for example, the Yoga Book will recognize such sloppy efforts and compensate so that the desired action is produced onscreen. Pretty nifty, though we didn't spend nearly enough time with our demo units to test this out."

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>college kids nowadays get to take notes on hardware like this

ITS SO UNFAIR I NEVER WOULDVE FAILED AND DROPPED OUT IF I HAD THIS

>>56438668

>super fishy

lol wat

>>56438737
>2011
>taking notes in class with my netbook in university because I just couldn't keep up with paper and a keyboard is much faster
>professor pissed off walks up to me
>sees I'm actually taking notes
>"why don't you take paper notes like everybody else"

I dropped shortly after

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>>56438658

It's the weird ass hinge.

>>56438805
The fuck? Everybody had laptops in my class back in 2008, even in the non-stem courses

>>56438806
If it's so easy to balance out a top heavy laplet why did MS go through the trouble to make that dynamic fulcrum hinge to increase leverage distance at the cost of that huge gap?

>>56438814
because italian universities are like 10 years behind at all times

>>56438831

Dunno. But the Surface Book might be weighted a lot differently than this product, and also the Surface Book can undock.

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>>56438785
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lenovo+superfish

>>56438873
The whole point of the undock feature is because the entire laptop is too thick and heavy though.

With the lighter notebooks with the 360 hinge and this, there really is no point to undock once you can get the whole thing down to around a tablet's thickness and weight. And this thing is only1.5lbs

Not to mention the surface book has around 4 hours of battery in clipboard mode

>>56438831
I don't know whether the yoga book mechanism works satisfactorily or not, but the surface is pretty massive, and I think the yoga book is significantly less massive.

>>56429369
lol, surface sucks

enjoy beta testing hardware until they decide to make it usable in a year.

I like to buy products without massive defects out of the box

Will this start a trend that will lead to the end of standalone wacom devices?

>>56438907
ok thanks
forgot about that

>>56438932

the lenovo book is reportedly evenly weighted in each panel

i like the idea it has symmetry from and ocd perspective

>lenovo
Have fun getting detained at the airport. Lenovo is the casio F91W equivalent for commie spies

>>56438953

i think wacom devices are niche as it is

do any apple products have embedded wacom stuff

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>>56439100
yeah because you can hide weaponery in there

>>56439093
That's even more surprising. I'm wondering how easy it is to push over at normal viewing angles.

>>56439123
I wonder how Panos Panay feels looking at this image.

So which line is the moneymaker for Lenovo now? Thinkpads or Yoga?

iPad pro >>>> this gimmick shit

That second screen is the most retarded thing I have ever seen. How did they thought it is a good idea? Just because its different doesnt mean its good.

>>56439177
chinkphones

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>>56439197

>>56439197
If Steve Jobs was alive the ipad pro would've never happened.

>>56439144
surface book hinge is probably more versatile but then again the device is twice as heavy as the lenovo

the lenovo book is really geared for portability and ad hoc use - not a laptop replacement

>>56438430
They can probably make the drawing surface feel more like an intuous pro. Also drawing on the screen directly has other challenges like perfecting the cursor offset and paralax

>>56439246
Why? iPad pro is one of their best products.

Sure, its not ready to replace your laptop yet, but they are giving devs and everyone else the tools they need to make it. Sooner rather than later it will be.

Simply because its more practical than traditional computers and that is what people want.

This shit from lenovo doesn't even compare. Just the fact that the keyboard/writing screen is attached at all times completely destroys the concept and usability of a tablet. And why would you choose to write on a separate screen if you can do on the actual screen?

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>>56439294

>>56439294
Making the iPad pro is essentially admitting MS won the pro tablet war and apple is playing catch up. Steve Jobs would've found the kickstand to be distasteful

>>56439330
Not really, windows is shit on tablets. All their useful software is made to be used with a m+kb. iPad pro is miles ahead.

>>56439294
Meh, it's okay. When they bring the 9.7" down to 340g like the Mini and put in the A10 processor, then it will be good.

>>56439402
What do you expect?

>tablet running desktop software with made-for-desktop UI design and controls
>it's a feature!

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just a reminder that the original courier concept had no keyboard input capability

i.e. not really fully functional from a type input efficiency model

>>56439440
Im just saying why the surface fails compared to the iPad.

Microsoft even tried to get people to make tablet ready software with the windows store but its a huge failure.

Meanwhile the app store is getting more and more professional grade software. Even microsoft themselves have already ported the full office suite. It works because companies know they can make money with the appstore.

>>56439483
>an actual real life device looks more sleek and advanced than a designer's concept art

wow

>>56439402

>im not using w7 on an X201T to edit documents on word, embed graphics with ps and then porting them into pdf format

good luck with the "Pro" iPad for doing anything other than facebook

>>56439530
>using w7 on an X201T to edit documents on word, embed graphics with ps and then porting them into pdf format

Im so sorry

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>>56439516
the courier concept looked more like a doubled up Nook ereader

>>56439548

yeah, its hard making 130K doing this shit while i commute between restaurants on an expense account

fucking kills me

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>>56439552
these crazy designers and their wacky ideas

They envisioned the samsung galaxy X as a single foldable screen

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>>56439552
real thing is sexier

>>56439586
interesting idea -- maybe once they have flexible oleds and better batteries the super thin dual screen concept will take over

>>56439589
jesus, makes me wanna take a jizz on it
how can other companies even compete

>>56439609
Unless you leave a large round gap in the folded state, it's going to crease the screen

>>56439589
If only it were oled.

Doesn't Lenovo have more oled laptops out there than any other manufacturer?

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>>56439613
LEWD

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/2/12769094/lenovo-yoga-book-love-poem-ifa-2016

Will this be the second non-apple product since the Note 7 to receive iverge's elusive 9.0+ rating?

>>56439690
This product is probably too hip for even starbucks. We'll need to start a yogabook user only coffee chain. Instead of ruby on rails and textmate we'll be drawing code on the digitizer

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>>56439730

I'm thinking its more for PDA type shit, and taking some class notes in the kind of class that has a lot of graphics (like organic chemistry or physics). Or doing some light editing on a plane with a plug in keyboard. Definitely an adjunct device. But it seems at least that the engineers have tested it out for that purpose. Coding would be better, obviously, on a real clamshell with a real keyboard where you don't have to dick around with the keyboard feel.

>>56439654

is the power draw from oled higher than the usual led

Does it have a true tone display?

If not its trash.

Also, the bezels are huge

>>56439933
Depends on how much of the screen is black

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>>56439965
>professional facebook user has spoken

>>56439933
oled tends to be more power efficient unless the screen is full on bright, but oled is more expensive

so it is probably the cost thing

>>56439965
don't you know dell has a patent on the technology used in edge to edge displays

nobody else will have small bezels

>>56439994
lmao those bezels

what year is it?

Call me back when someone makes a diplay with true tone. No point having a tablet without one.

>>56440056
>he cannot settle for anything less than tru-tone to Like all the new posts on his Timeline

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how'd a nitwit like lenovo get so tasteful

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>>56440056
what year? its 2016

>>56440147
Its impossible to settle for this crap after using something decent.

>a keyboard that is a flat surface

>>56440175
oh noes

that sure will make me change from a perfect tablet for this gimmick shit.

>>56438805
>not being in classes where typing won't cut it
Maybe if your a latex savant but equations and force diagrams and graphs meant I rarely used my laptop even when given the option

>>56440447
>Maybe if your a latex savant but equations and force diagrams and graphs meant I rarely used my laptop even when given the option
seriously this, paper and pencil is the only way

>>56440528
Video Lecturers wasn't a thing in my time. But honestly it should be mandatory now. I can listen and take some light notes in class and rewatch the vid afterwards and take the time to properly organize the information and write proper latex or markup

>>56440604
>typing the notes in latex
So satisfying to see the equations render perfectly after typing them out. I loved typing up lab reports in latex and cringed when circumstances required me to use MS words equation tools

>>56440221
>>that sure will make me change

the egocentrism of the sperg

>>56440056
>Complaining about bezels on a tablet

>>56429467
>Windows 10
FUUUUUCK THAT

>>56441975
The Android version is cheaper anyways

>>56442050
That's actually better

>>56429467
Thinkpad did it

>>56442076
Apparently they did some tweaks to Android in their skin to make it better for having a full keyboard and tablet. Only reviews will tell if the note taking software is good.

>>56436434
If you saw someone with one of those you should rob them, they're worth a fuck load when in working condition.

>>56439589
Gorgeous. But let's wait to see what their actual performance is like.

>>56439197
iPad Pro + Apple Pen costs 3 times this

>>56438814
I think laptops are fucking annoying. Especially when the whole row in front of me has laptops open. Distracting as fuck. Everyone should just use paper and pen.

it's two fucking ipads attached to each other

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>>56438943
This, you're fucking retarded if you get anything other than the XPS 13/15

>>56446293
this 2bh

>bbbut i learn better with a computer
most of the people who say this are just browsing facebook during class.

>>56447750
>you're fucking retarded if you don't buy my favorite laptop

Eh. I'd take it a step further. Any serious money you spend on a laptop is a choice you will regret.

Save the high tech for your desktop and buy a cheap laptop if you absolutely have to (seriously, think about whether it's needed).

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>>56446366

so awkward

>>56448090
literal eyerape

>>56448090
>so awkward
Yeah I know, reading on a backlit display... is that supposed to be a selling point?