Lenovo Skylight "ARM A8 based for $500.. err what"

[ajaidev]

"Remember that Snapdragon-powered Lenovo smartbook we peeked back in November of last year? No? Fret not, as the aforesaid outfit has just come clean with the details surrounding the previously elusive device. The Skylight is Lenovo's first-ever smartbook, and while we're still struggling to see what niche .."

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/l...smartbook-com/

Did Lenovo forget what ARM smartbooks are all about, for $500 i would rather get this or this "Joo Joo does look great "

[randomizer]

That's... ugly.

[RPGWiZaRD]

$500 = fail /thread

[Serra]

This is the problem with the netbook market in general right now. When they first came out it was a battle for lowest price, but since then prices have been shooting up to try to pack in marginally better specs. Now half the netbooks out there are within a few dollars of the cheapest laptops, which typically perform better.

[Hornet331]

[this "Joo Joo does look great "

No thanks to the lenovo nettop and even more to the joojoo thing...

[Manicdan]

someone should make it so no netbook can be called a netbook unless it gets >7 hours battery life, weighs under 3lbs, under 400$ and has a screen so small it gives you eye cancer. the rest can be called cheap laptops

[ajaidev]

I dont really get this arm book at 500 bucks.

In my mind overall Smartbooks<Netbooks<Ultra thin Laptops "CULV & NEO"<Laptops

But the line is so blurry between most of them The consumer does not know if he is buying a quad core c2q based lappy or a quad thread atom 330 based lappy. I saw some promotional stuff in a shop for the new atom 330 netbook which said in bold letters "Quad thread with OC function" This was a Chinese netbook so most things written in specs was not understandable, the normal consumer thinks hey it says quad and by intel and so cheap yay....

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

This is getting outrageous. I wonder if IBM would have allowed this BS to occur if it still owned the thinkpad division.

I don't really see the point. Their x100e starts at $450 and is amd neo. Then there's laptops for about the same price that'll include dualcore processors.

Its all a joke. I hope this netbook / ultra portable craze just dies out soon. There's very powerful small laptops that get 6 to 9 hours of battery life with enough power to do just about anything you'd need.

[Helloworld_98]

it looks like they squashed a Palm Pixi and they folded it in half.