14 DAY TRIAL // As it often happens, an upcoming electronic has been pushed back for a later release than originally intended, in this case the victim of delay being Lenovo's IdeaPad U1 hybrid which is now slated to become available, in China at least, in early 2011.
Though there are quite a few so-called hybrid electronics on today's market, Lenovo intends to achieve something more or less unique with its IdeaPad U1.
This device will be a sort of cross-breed between a slate and a laptop, only more so than even convertible tablet PCs.
Basically, the tablet part of the machine can be detached from the whole thing, essentially turning the laptop part into a dock.
This also means that each half of the product had its own processing solution, the dock being mostly intended to provide the tablet with a keyboard and extra horsepower when needed.
The dock has a configuration centered around an Intel Core 2 Duo U4100 central processing unit, whose clock speed is of 1.3 GHz.
This chip is backed up by 4 GB of RAM, the integrated Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) video and a solid state drive (SSD) of up to 128 GB.
The tablet side of things features a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset and has an 11.6-inch multi-touch display with a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels.
The Ideapad U1 was initially previewed at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2010 and was going to be made public during the summer.
Lenovo, however, decided to redesign it, the new estimated time of arrival being early 2011, and even then only on one market.
According to recent reports, the mobile computer will initially sell only on the Chinese market and there is no exact date given for when other regions will receive it.
Prices are also unknown, as is whether or not the dock and tablet will be sold together in a bundle or separately.