Lenovo demo their Tablet range

I was lucky enough to get invited by Iain Firks at local PC Lenovo specialists Thinklogic to a great run down of the new Lenovo laptop and workstation product lines.

The chaps from Lenovo did a great job of explaining a bit about their market strategy, their product development capability and how they’d just pipped HP to the #1 spot as global PC manufacturer.

The highlight for me was a demonstration of the new ThinkPad tablets, out for release next year. These were all running Windows 8 and it was great to see Microsoft’s new OS actually being used the way it’s been designed to – as a touch interface, on a tablet.

The experience was really slick and found myself seriously thinking that Windows 8 stood a good chance here against Android and iOS. The Lenovo kit is very geared towards heavy business use, it’s tough with all the features corporate IT would want to see.

If you’re a business with a raft of windows desktop applications, these Lenovo Windows 8 tablets might make a lot of sense. You get the convenience of a tablet and can run your ‘legacy’ windows applications on them too.

Question is… how many businesses are out there that a) want to equip their staff with tablets and b) still have ‘legacy’ desktop applications that require Windows to run on them. If you really need a desktop application on a tablet, why not run virtualised desktops and connect to them with RDP from your (cheap) Android tablet?

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