http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/ Engadget Comments for Video: Lenovo's Ideapad U8 MID teases with Intel's Atom http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/

haha came]]>Apr 2nd 2008 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/
It's merely a optical mouse laser that you run your thumb over to move the pointer around on the screen.

I think that's very useful since using touch screen with only one hand isn't that easy when holding in the horizontal position.]]>Apr 2nd 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/
AFAIK, if this thing does run Linux, it will have no useful HWR at all, because it doesn't exist for Linux.]]>Apr 2nd 2008 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/
Thomas]]>Apr 2nd 2008 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/
Nokia's own HWR is a joke and the only thing Linux has ATM is Cellwriter, which is a character recognizer, in Graffiti style. The reason everybody seems to want keyboards -- make that "thumbboards", or even dumbboards! -- on their UMPC/MID/Itablet/whatever is that there simply is no decent effort done in creating a usable HWR solution.

But, and contrary to the popular hubbub, the venerable Newtons had near-perfect cursive HWR on the latest (and, thanks to the Satan Jobs, last) iteration of NewtOS. It actually worked better than a keyboard in most cases, other than static use on a desk, but CalliGrapher/PenOffice and Inkwell still use that very same, now decade-old technology.

I realize people are already queueing up to tell me that keyboards works sooo much faster than stupid handwriting, and they're basically correct, provided you're sitting at a normal desk, typing on a standard keyboard with ten fingers (or possibly more, if you're from the American Mid-West). Let me tell you this: Jabbing with your thumbs at a minuscule keypad, unable to keep your eyes on the screen while typing, you're never going to achieve the speed a frakking stylus is going to give you (don't forget that handwriting is the only means of text input that'll allow you to see both what your hand is doing and the result of it on the screen). Fullscreen input HWR is the perfect way of getting text stuff into a pocket-sized tablet computing device and it's not because Jobs hates HWR (and only so because Scully came up with it), that he's also right.]]>Apr 2nd 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/
also , i think thumboards , when done right beat handwriting recognition hands down. it takes a lot longer to write a letter than to just tap it, not to mention you have to write and then correct it. ]]>Apr 2nd 2008 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/
From a usability perspective, buttons shouldn't be that thin.]]>Apr 2nd 2008 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/I'd like one of those and play some doom, on the tram]]>Apr 2nd 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 2nd 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/
I'm curious how much oomph Atom is gonna have and whether it will be enough for playing back DVD rips at full speed.
]]>Apr 2nd 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 3rd 2008 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 3rd 2008 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/This is getting far from the old IBM's attention to detail...]]>Apr 3rd 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 3rd 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/video-lenovos-ideapad-u8-mid-teases-with-intels-atom/Apr 6th 2008 7:02PM