http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/ Engadget Comments for Lenovo's IdeaPad U110 showcased on video, available in US on April 29 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 27th 2008 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 27th 2008 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 27th 2008 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
I believe you mean "for all intents and purposes."

In any case, I agree with your point. The disc drive isn't super useful all the time, so just keep it external.]]>Apr 28th 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/But why are all the ThinkPad/Lenova offshoots so horribly chunky.

I'm not looking for a veritable chick magnet in a laptop a la Vaslag... er... Valgas style... but I'm thinking no protruding ethernet port to start.

Maybe they are by small degrees, in this U110 design, branching away from the traditional completely chunky case that they had going before...

But they got a lot of work to do.

Hopefully the next 10 iterations of this product will bring that much-needed completely makeover... if not internal BluRay.]]>Apr 28th 2008 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
Thinkpads have the cleanest and most attractive styling of any notebook on the market at the moment.

Everything else I look at, appears to have been manufactured by mattel.

Also, wtf blueray? its dead, jim.]]>Apr 28th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
sorry it's not made of white shiny plastic...]]>Apr 28th 2008 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
They do need to do a better job marketing these things, though.]]>Apr 28th 2008 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
Man, that keyboard is shiny as hell! I think it uses the more powerful LV processors instead of ULV in the TZ and U2E.

I also heard the screen is not LED-backlit, unlike the TZ and U2E though.]]>Apr 28th 2008 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/The DVD drive is not built-in and at least in China, it will come with a Lenovo branded external DVD drive.]]>Apr 28th 2008 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
Let's face it. That is what this machine is going to be compared to, perhaps even moreso than the ThinkPad X300. It's the exact same price as the MBA (once you include Apple's external SuperDrive), and it's also focused squarely on the fashion-notebook market (not to say other mobility-minded users won't find a use for it.) How does it hold up?

Well, the screen is smaller. And the keyboard, from what I remember from CES, is "less than good." I fell in love with the U110 at CES and the black one looks just as hot as the red one, but the MacBook Air - with it's 13-inch screen and illuminated keyboard - would probably be the one I would pick.* The IdeaPad has lots of flash (I *love* those illuminating media keys), but the MacBook Air is the more functional of the two designs (the MacBook Air? *more* functional than something?).

*Actually, I think I'm going to go with an iMac and an HP Mini-Note for the same price. Yay for finally finding a "companion machine" that works for me. :p]]>Apr 28th 2008 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
$1500 for this? i'm in.]]>Apr 28th 2008 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Let alone cut-down ones that try to sell u their 'prestige'.

Gloss gone wayyy too far on this model.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4182
"During a quick first test I found the keyboard hard to use and quite mushy. The advantage is that since each key on the keyboard is flushed up against the next, the average key size is bigger than what you'll get on most ultraportables with an 11.1-inch screen form factor. However, the space bar is shrunken in size and hard to use. Overall, at first blush this keyboard is nowhere near the usability of a ThinkPad style keyboard and would seem it take some getting used to -- which is often the case with ultraportable keyboards."

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Lenovo - please put the trackpoint back!]]>Apr 28th 2008 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
Give me the TrackPoint, or give me death.]]>Apr 28th 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 28th 2008 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/
They finally make a pretty looking laptop but make it a fingerprint magnet. :c]]>Apr 28th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/27/lenovos-ideapad-u110-showcased-on-video-available-in-us-on-apr/Apr 29th 2008 2:37AM