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Lenovo ThinkPad 8 Tablet Brings Windows and Office for 385

The Lenovo ThinkPad 8 is another Windows 8 tablet with Office preinstalled for free, a later version of Asus VivoTab Note 8. Lenovo’s newest touchscreen Windows tablet is more expensive than Asus. While the later costs 300, Lenovo’s latest is around 385. But ThinkPad 8 is improvised and packs much more than Asus.

New York: The screen of Lenovo ThinkPad 8 for instance, is much better — 1,920 x 1,200 pixels, which is better than Full HD and significantly higher than the VivoTab’s 1,280×800-pixel resolution. This is important for smooth handling of software like Word and PowerPoint. Web surfing too becomes a much more pleasant task.

It boasts of Intel’s Bay Trail quad-core CPU with 2GB of RAM inside. It is nothing different from the Asus here. It can be expanded up to 128GB of storage. But that will cost you extra, and it is not clear how much it comes with for the base price. It will be available in a 4G version though, which the Asus does not offer.

Your extra 85 is worth it for ThinkPad 8 as it buys you a much better 10-megapixel rear camera and a slimmer 8.6mm chassis. It’s made of aluminum, which should feel sturdier and last longer than Asus’ plastic body. However, we still have to wait for a review sample to see if it’s worth the extra cash, though sources promise that it is not looking like a bad deal. The ThinkPad 8 will be out in the UK and elsewhere in Europe at the end of the month.

Lenovo Horizon 2 goes horizontal

Lenovo also had the Horizon 2, a new 27-inch tabletop workstation on show at CES. That is a fancy name for an all-in-one PC that can fold down flat for games and doodling and you can see exactly what it is like in this hands-on from CNET’s magnificent Dan Ackerman:

The Horizon 2 has a 2,560×1,440-pixel screen — an improvement over the last generation — and can be specified up to an Intel Core i7 and an Nvidia GeForce 840M graphics card. It will be launched in the UK in July starting at 1,499.