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A clever keyboard and high-res screen for the Lenovo Miix 2

2014-04-21
are you looking for a windows tablet with just a little bit more of everything well I'm Dan Akron and I've got the Lenovo mixed two for you it's Nick spelled miix2 reasons I have yet to quite fathom but if you remember the unique name you'll remember a few of the things that make this stand out from other windows tablets first it's got a 10 inch screen while most Windows tablets have 8 inch screens it's a 1920 x 1200 screen resolution which is much higher than usual and also tells us this is a 16 x 10 aspect ratio screen instead of a more common 16 by 9 aspect ratio screen the effect is is not going to be one that you notice the heck of a lot but that extra screen real estate especially when you're in the traditional desktop view will give you more room to work with things like big excel spreadsheets and and big photographs in Photoshop and other apps like that if you switch back to the windows menu you'll see it actually scales very well to the higher resolution and you won't really notice that you're working on a screen with a different resolution and different aspect ratio then you're used to even though this guy is 599 which is a little bit more than most Windows tablets you do get a few extras with it it's got the same intel atom cpu is a lot of those systems but you get a nice big 128 gig SSD and you see it's a standalone tablet like this but it's also got this pretty unique keyboard dock it doesn't actually latch on it help it holds itself together through a little multi-pin connector and a magnetic connection so I can stick this on here and and type and I can pick it up and it pretty much stays on I wouldn't shake it too too much I can also flip it around and show to you from the rear angle like this and you can have kind of a kiosk mode there's really only one angle whether you're going this way or the other way so if you don't like that angle to type on you're pretty much out of luck it's not as flexible as let's say a clamshell laptop but you can actually put the two parts together let the magnet hold them together when you hold it up like this it actually looks like you're carrying a laptop even though you're not you can kind of shake it and toss it around and the two parts are not going to come apart I still exercise a little bit of care when throwing it in your shoulder bag just to make sure battery life and performance of pretty similar to the 8 inch Windows tablets that we seen but on the slightly bigger screen you may expect something a little bit closer to full size laptop performance which means that the occasional slow down instead of ring you run into may seem a little more pronounced even though the performance is pretty much the same as an eight-inch shuffle Windows tablet I'm Dan Akron and that's the Lenovo mix too
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