| In a weird way, my excitement about Windows 8 tablets started with the Motorola Atrix, which is neither a tablet nor runs Windows 8. Basically, the Atrix promised to turn your gadgets into Legos. You have one device in the Atrixs case a smartphone that holds all your data, apps, and settings. Then you go about your life, adding and removing peripherals as you need them. Need a big screen? Toss it into a tablet or connect it to a monitor. Need to get some work done? Oh, heres a keyboard! |
| Needless to say, neither the Atrix nor this wonderful future has yet taken the world by storm. But Windows 8 offered a limited, perhaps more attainable version: an operating system and app ecosystem thats equally at home on a tablet and a laptop. Its touch-friendly, trackpad-friendly, and of course amenable to all the work and play were used to doing on a Windows PC. And Ive seen that it can work, though only in pieces Ive tested good Windows 8 laptops and good Windows 8 tablets, but not yet a device that glides frictionless between both worlds. | | Ever since I first saw Lenovos new ThinkPad Tablet 2, Ive thought it might actually pull off this balancing act. Its very much a tablet theres no dock, and you cant really call it a "hybrid" anything – but it comes with pen support and a keyboard, two things Lenovos proven it does very well. The 10.1-inch tablet runs Windows 8 on Intels low-powered Atom processor, and promises to marry all-day battery life and iPad-level portability with the ability to actually get real-world work done. Lenovos Windows 8 laptops have been among the best Ive tested in the last few months, so I hoped against hope that it had finally cracked the "one device, every situation" cipher. Finally, maybe, I could move toward the life the Atrix never gave me |
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