Lenovo said to release Intel and ARM Android convertibles
Hmm... which will prove more popular?
Lenovo will reportedly release Android-based convertibles in the first half of this year, and they'll be powered by your choice of either Intel or ARM processors.
Convertibles – clamshell laptops that can be converted to tablets – were one of the most talked about items at last week's CES 2013. Intel, for its part, sees them as the future of mobile computing.
But the devices that Intel was most effusive about during its CES 2013 press event were running Microsoft's Windows 8. According to a Monday report by DigiTimes citing those ever-helpful "industry sources", Lenovo – the world's second-largest PC maker – will add convertibles running Android to its stable of mobile PCs.
Or tablets – whichever incarnation of the convertible form factor you choose to emphasize.
According to DigiTimes' sources, Lenovo had planned to release Android-based convertibles in the third quarter of last year, but delayed the roll-out due to the market noise caused by the iPad 4 and iPad mini, Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets, "as well as a proliferation of low-priced Android tablets."
Intel has been talking about Android-on-Intel for quite some time, and soon-to-be-ex-CEO Paul Otellini said way back in October 2010 that Chipzilla would "win" in the tablet market.
Hasn't happened – and it's still to early to add "yet" to that observation.
If and when Lenovo releases Android convertibles based on both ARM and Intel chips – which will join its Core i5/i7 IdeaPad Yoga 11S convertible that was announced at CES and is scheduled to ship this June – we'll keep an eye on how the market responds to that choice. ®
COMMENTS
Re: Chromebook, Chromebook, Chromebook
>nuff said
Sorry, but could you expand upon that?
Re: Tablets to Laptops
Android on desktop?
Why, just Why? Surely a desktop-orientated Linux distro would be better for the desktop, and Android seems to work well on touch-screen devices. I wouldn't have thought that Android had been designed to work with mouse_over and other mousey commands, let alone keyboard shortcuts (shit, until recently there was one version for phones and one for tablets). Is Eadon seriously suggesting a reverse Win8?
I knew he was an agent provocateur i.e. he's not a real Linux fan at all, because his comments are consistently detrimental to the cause he professes to support.
Tablets to Laptops
The Android invasion of the desktop has begun!
About bloody time.
Re: Tablets to Laptops
Sounds like a good proposition to me…
It's about the closest we'll get to actually having a consumer device with mostly standard hardware running Linux, albeit, Android/Linux rather than GNU/Linux.
That said, it shouldn't be difficult to shoehorn a real Linux distribution on there. I'll sit back and wait, but maybe things are starting to turn in our favour. Slowly. :-)
Re: Tablets to Laptops
Any restrictions you cannot bypass on Windows?.
