One of Lenovo’s marketing VPs, David Churbuck, is blogging away on their site dedicated to CES 2010 activities about the new Skylight smartbook. It turns out David was part of the group that helped define what the smartbook eventually became and he shares some insights into that process. Hit the link for the full read
The design of the system is amazing, delivered by Richard Sapper, the genius behind the original ThinkPad and Yao Ying Jia, head of our design lab in Beijing. The user interface is internally developed on top of a Linux kernel and is pretty intuitive and very browser centric. The software implementation was remarkable, particularly given the challenges of porting a large screen user experience to an ARM platform.
Source: [LenovoSocial]
P.S. The Skylight intro video that was only on Lenovo’s product page is now on YouTube and can be found below.
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