Lenovo: "Business customers do not want a slate Tablet PCs"
A prototype has met with little response. Not even students could be inspired by Lenovo, according to a virtual keyboard. Thus, the manufacturer has placed instead be convertible model as X201 on the state of the art.
Lenovo a new "convertible Tablet PC has presented named X201. Product Manager, Mika Majapuro stressed at the thought that they had deliberately chosen iPad against a slate "model like Apple's. This will not be accepted by business customers.
Convertible Tablet PC: Thinkpad X201 (Image: Lenovo)
The difference: Slates come without a keyboard, while convertibles are in the end notebooks, which can be use as a tablet by rotating the screen and works on the keyboard. "We have, of course, plastic prototypes built and demonstrated customer," said Majapuro. "The result was clear: For our customer does not, they need a keyboard."
The product manager felt the rejection of the Slate model in light of by Apple's iPad triggered Tablet-wave as a surprise: "For me it was amazing. At first I did not believe it. But the keyboard has for our customers seem a surprisingly high value. "
In a second experiment, we have tested the reaction of high school students on slate tablets. Majapuro: "They were 14-year-old, of which I had assumed that they would like to try a virtual keyboard. But they refused and preferred to a real one."
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