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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Lenovo ideas Center horizon 27 no guesses for figuring out that means this is a 27-inch computer that kind of looks like an all-in-one but at the same time it's also part of a new breed that some people call mega tablets I call them tabletop pcs because there's a special spring-loaded hinge in the back and all you have to do is press down on the top top edge of the machine and the whole thing folds down and then you have essentially a tabletop PC it's kind of got a very 80s sci-fi kind of vibe to it and that actually launches a special Lenovo software package called aura that acts as your tabletop interface you can always go back to the regular Windows 8 screen but I kind of like this or it's got this jog wheel in the middle and from there you can access a whole bunch of games that are built-in apps photos videos you can even take individual video clips and you can start playing them and manipulate them make them larger and smaller and rotate them as you go and that's sort of very Minority Report that's sort of the hands-on stuff everyone wants to get out of tablets so here it is sort of written into almost a coffee table version and of course you can dismiss stuff that you're playing with just by flicking your fingers like that I actually found it almost more interesting besides playing games in the tabletop which is actually a lot of fun you can play air hockey it comes with some accessories to go back to the Windows 8 screen and just use this is a big tabletop PC there's a lot of Windows 8 apps that come out really well like this including the big news app the big news and that actually looks really nice like this and then also a bunch of games that I thought were really good like geared is a good example and that's a nice tabletop game or chess I think this is really custom made for chess or even just simple things like whether it's really fast just have kind of weather on your coffee table like this and you can go back and forth through it and you can do this on any Windows 8 tablet or a touch screen on one but setup like this it kind of becomes a piece of furniture more than the computer and I think that that's a really interesting way to look at it you're gonna pay a little bit of a premium over a comparable 27-inch touch on one for this but not too much right now this runs about 1699 for a core i5 version 1850 for a core i7 but they're gonna come to retailers like Best Buy very soon at lower prices $14.99 for the core i5 $15.99 for the core i7 and for that price you're just getting a decent all-in-one that also has all this other cool stuff built in I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo idea center horizon 27