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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet 2 now this looks like a lot of the other Windows 8 tablets that we've seen so far this falls into one of the two main categories and that is the Intel Atom tablet the other main thread being the Intel Core i5 tablet things like the Microsoft Surface and the Samsung ativ in the atom side you've got things like the ThinkPad tablet - you've got the Acer W 510 you've got the down latitude 10 they're all pretty much the same they've got an Intel Atom processor which is sort of an outgrowth of what we used to see years ago in that boasts a very low-power processor along with a 64 gig solid state hard drive and 2 gigs of RAM now that smaller hard drive size doesn't give you a heck of a lot of storage space especially after the full windows 8 install but I think this still has a big advantage over let's say Windows RT tablets and that it's basically got the full version of Windows 8 on it in a touchscreen that is very responsive especially in the Windows 8 UI even though it's on that atom tablet and as we've seen in some other atom tablets some apps that are optimized for the atom experience on Windows 8 like IE and Netflix really do work very well on here you don't to worry about to start a regular slowdown or some other apps like Chrome or maybe not quite as optimized yet hopefully they will be soon now I really like the design of the ThinkPad tablet - a lot more so than a lot of the other Windows 8 tablets we've seen it's probably second only for the Microsoft Surface I think in terms of overall design I like that the tablet itself is is very is very thin it's very light it's got a nice square it off design they work an active digitizer right here into the corner and you can use that on the screen and they just slide right into the slot right here and I love this little keyboard base that's a 100 and I think a $30 option and it just sits right in there connects via bluetooth but you get a variation on that really excellent ThinkPad keyboard that's really tough too tough to top and you can get a nice little leather sleeve that the whole thing fits into it's like another 30 bucks now that brings us to the negative part about all these atom tablets but this one in particular there a lot more expensive than you would expect an atom product to be and really not that much less expensive than a full core i5 version of something similar or a touchscreen Core i5 ultrabook this guy start to add six hundred and seventy dollars for that you just get the tablet once you add the 113 hour keyboard stand and the $30 case you're looking at about a little under 850 dollars for the entire package it's a very nice package but if you had 850 dollars in your pocket there are a lot of really great touchscreen full core i5 Ultrabook style laptops you can get and maybe if you invest just a little bit more then you're looking at a core i5 tablet or maybe even something like a MacBook Air I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet 2