Do you remember all the talk about smartbooks a few year back? Similar to netbooks, they used components typically associated with mobile phones (such as ARM processors) rather than PC ones. Initial interest from a number of manufacturers (including ASUS and Lenovo) quickly waned though and the product category faded into obscurity. But it could make a comeback when Windows […]
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Lenovo delays Skylight smartbook
Back at CES 2010, Lenovo unveiled the Skylight smartbook, promising to launch it in April. April came and went and there was no Skylight. Now comes word that Lenovo has delayed (canceled?) the device to make changes to the OS that will power it. Rather than a proprietary Linux based OS, Lenovo is likely to use Google Android (or Google […]