Lenovo Thinkpad tablet...Transformer competition?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6-ykDOfJdc&NR=1

http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/20/l...ands-on-video/

I think you get best of all worlds with this device...full sized ports on the tablet itself, optional dedicated keyboard folio, and an N-trig pen digitizer. With all the success the transformer has, I think this will definitely take away some sales from the transformer.

I think the pen looks nice but that's about it. The keyboard isn't really a dock it's just like those flimsy addon keyboard cases you can buy for iPad, and no extra battery, so it's fail. Did they mention SD card slot? Don't seem to see that....

Originally Posted by darkonex

I think the pen looks nice but that's about it. The keyboard isn't really a dock it's just like those flimsy addon keyboard cases you can buy for iPad, and no extra battery, so it's fail. Did they mention SD card slot? Don't seem to see that....

Full sized SD card slot and USB is on the tablet rather then the dock. How is it fail? I love the transformer, I just don't like having to attach the dock just to use the extra ports. I can see myself using the thinkpad more for school since tit has the pen for taking notes.

Definitely interesting, but in my mind it falls between the Transformer and the Thrive.

Transformer and the Thinkpad have similar screens and similar keyboard situations.
Thrive and the Thinkpad have nearly matching ports (Thrive has full HDMI, Thinkpad as mini-HDMI).

The only unique thing about the Thinkpad is that it has a laptop charger and can also change via micro-USB (Thrive has laptop charger but no USB charging), and the Thinkpad has the digital ink pen (ala HTC, but on a more appropriately sized device IMO).

Oh and Netflix is guaranteed to work on it without all of the BS the rest of us Honeycombers are going through.

No, it's not competition for me. It puts the cart before the horse. If I want tablet-only mode, I want as small as possible. If I want a keyboard too, I don't mind a bit of extra bulk, in fact it will make it much easier to type on on surfaces other than desks. Hence, the ports and slots belong in the keyboard, where Asus put them, NOT in the tablet where Lenovo put them.

I don't think it's any coincidence that Lenovo's specifications don't mention the size (and especially the thickness). Look at the size of the mini HDMI port on the Transformer compared to the thickness, though, and then take a look at the Lenovo. It looks tanklike, by comparison, and it's 10% heavier than the Transformer tablet-only, too.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/tablets/thinkpad/

And as others have mentioned, it lags badly behind in netbook-mode battery life.

Originally Posted by -=chad=-

The only unique thing about the Thinkpad is that it has a laptop charger and can also change via micro-USB

How's that unique? The Transformer also has a dedicated charger, or can charge via micro USB. (The screen has to be switched off to charge, but there's every chance that's true of the Thinkpad, too.)

A tablet with a USB thumbdrive or some other usb perpihersal sticking out of the side of it makes it nearly non-portable (unless you want to risk bumping the USB thumdrive and risk breaking your USB port)...

Well, looks great. Especcialy the USB and N-trig. The next tablet I buy has to have stylus and USB port. They should have chosen something else than Tegra though.
And frosty5689 - I heavily disagree. It's much more portable than Transformer with dock. VERY handy, and you don't use pendrive all the time.
What about screen though? Is is IPS? Because it's also very important.

Originally Posted by tq745

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6-ykDOfJdc&NR=1

Ugly tablet, pretty girl

the thinkpad tablet looks horrible..still transformer ftw!