Imagine that this is your little netbook, the one that actually fits in your pocket that you take with you everywhere. It's the perfect size to do some browsing, check up recipes in the grocery store, and just have a computer with you for computer-like tasks. Stay in touch with your buddies, check out the latest gossip on Facebook, it could do everything. The only trouble is that this is a 2-year old concept by Lenovo and that Sony just released a netbook that looks very similar to this one.
Lenovo Pocket Yoga: The Netbook You've Always Wanted
It might look like a wallet, but it's not! It's actually a concept netbook from Lenovo from 2 years ago! Considering that the Sony VAIO P just came out and it looks very similar to this one, it's a wonder that Lenovo didn't produce theirs. Personally, I'm getting sick of the cheap netbook look. It's time for a bit of glamor in those small form factors. Enough with the cheap plastics!
Initially, the Lenovo Pocket Yoga was leaked to the press a few days ago. Most of the sites were loving this little gizmo, even though I found the shape a bit odd. No had been released, but it's been speculated that something this size would run on Intel Atom processors. The photos emphasize that the Pocket Yoga fits in your pocket and doesn't really look like a netbook at all when it's all closed up.
Ever since I remember, Sony has been toying with small netbooks at premium prices. Only when Asus came out with Eee PCs did we actually see cheap netbooks. Until them, we had all these tablets and UMPCs which were really small but extremely expensive. The Sony VAIO continues with that theme. Expensive, small, but at the end of the matter insignificant. With a starting price of $900 and only a 4-hour battery life, people will soon forget the P Series and move onto other products.
It's good that netbooks are around. They are popular and are pushing manufacturers to come up with cheap and easy solutions to people's computing problems. Just recently, Dell announced the Adamo specs and prices. The Adamo is Dell's stylish portable notebook, kind of like the MacBook Air. It's also frightfully expensive, and seriously, at that price, people will just get MacBook Pros instead. So what if it's a tenth of an inch thinner than a MacBook Air? [via GearCrave, images by Lenovo via Flickr]
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According to boing boing gadgets this will not be released.....even though I wish it wasn't true.
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I find your posts increasingly imprudent and flippant. For one thing, this wasn't "leaked to the press", it was posted on Lenovo's flickr account. A few hours later, after it had hit all the major tech blogs, lenovo issued a release saying it was simply a concept and they had no plans for production.
Another thing is that you constantly make statements like "Expensive, small, but at the end of the matter insignificant. With a starting price of $900 and only a 4-hour battery life, people will soon forget the P Series and move onto other products." Rather certain of your market research abilities aren't you? Clearly the Vaio P was created for a niche that wants a higher build quality and features like gps in their netbook and are willing to pay a few hundred more for them.
"The Adamo is Dell's stylish portable notebook, kind of like the MacBook Air. It's also frightfully expensive, and seriously, at that price, people will just get MacBook Pros instead." You seriously think someone considering the adamo would decide on the macbook pro instead? They are completely different computers aimed at completely different markets. And with a 9" version to come, there will be yet another option. And really, once a person starts considering the air / adamo type, it's all about style and very little about substance. Price-be-damned, something slim and sleek is what's called for.
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Of course, the only netbook I have ever been interested in buying. Enough so, that I showed my husband, and discussed putting Ubuntu on it. I always fall in love things that aren't going to be made.
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I often wish to myself that my netbook, instead of being affordable, was much more expensive so that it could be covered in something fancy and fashionable.
Oh wait, no I don't.
Charmac, you have to remember that this is the tech wing of a home blog so details that seem very important to you and I are often overlooked in order to better fit the overall voice of AT. :) (you're totally right though)
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