Lenovo Product Engineer Ashton Kutcher 'Not Concerned' About Upcoming iPad Launch

[tattooedyuppie]

Thought this was an Onion post at first.

 

[teknikal90]

Terrible cheap pieces of Chinese rubbish, with a failure rate higher than my sex life.

wait a minute.....

 

[sinsin07]

Is he the Chinese version of Steve Jobs?

You're far of the mark...

Meet Lei Jun: China's Steve Jobs Is The Country's Newest Billionaire

 

[Cisco_Kid]

Reminds me of this piece of crap

Fail x 2

 

[TT D'arby]

Interesting product nonetheless for a niche market that sustains the availability of a scant product. This will undoubtedly usher in greater-sized devices like the iPad Pro and larger Surface tablets and so on. We're on the brink of something exciting and everyone drums up dreams of larger = better. Make something bigger first and eventually brag that copiers are on your tail, wagging away at every sign of market fright. That's pretty much the Samsung competition gameplay illusion generated by mass social media pushes.

 

[Sy7ygy]

At Apple's rate of releasing shoddy software and for that matter; on the latest iPhone 6, shoddy hardware - Lenovo should be jumping for joy.

 

[UnfetteredMind]

Different market. I think this competes more with the Surface Pro 3. Projector is a brilliant idea, as long as "it just works". As someone else pointed out, those app icons are so damn similar to iOS 7 icons. They created an app called "Game Center HD" too!


For those of you saying the projector is stupid, I'll personally bet you if Apple created this, people would call it the best thing ever.

I wouldn't. I'd have the same comments. You need a good surface on which to project. This means either a screen or a nicely painted surface. Typical home walls don't fall into this category. My friend did this for his home theatre instead of purchasing a screen, but it wouldn't be common and that's the only wall on which he did it (for a permanent projector install).

The built in projector would be better for business use cases than home/entertainment, imho. if your spreadsheet doesn't have accurate colors, probably not such a big deal for an impromptu meeting, but projecting onto a non-white/gray (and very smooth) wall to watch a movie will look like crap.

 

[burgundyyears]

I'm sure people demanded a big thick chin on their tablet.

 

[AllergyDoc]

At first I thought it was a random engineer with the same name until I saw the photo.
Edit: Look, Woz in the the background.

lol

 

[rictus007]

My experiences with Lenovo products have been all but tragic. Terrible cheap pieces of Chinese rubbish, with a failure rate higher than my sex life. I'm not sure a paid-off actor can persuade me to jump ship.

Sorry to hear that, contrary to your experience my sex life....is awesome

 

[oneMadRssn]

Reminds me of this

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Well done sir. You beat me to it. I had that same image from wired.com in my clipboard even.

 

[carjakester]

what the....

 

[Chiel-Jan]

"Trust me, I'm an engineer..."

 

[carjakester]

according to wikipedia his intended major in college was biochemical engineering so i guess he had some experience but it is still surprising he was given the job/title.

 

[UnfetteredMind]

Well you guys are wrong.

From the Wiki :

Kutcher stated, "I thought I knew everything but I didn't have a clue. I was partying, and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before.

So ... "Dude, Where's My Car?" was a real stretch of his acting chops then

 

[hipnetic]

Don't poke fun at Ashton. Jony Ive thinks he's qualified to design User Interfaces.

 

[macaron95]

i started laughing while reading the first words of the title


"Lenovo Product Engineer Ashton Kutcher"

 

[AlecZ]

Uhh... What the heck is that thing, and why is Ashton Kutcher an engineer suddenly?

 

[TyloBedo]

The tablets come equipped with a 180-degree kickstand

AN DEN

and the 13-inch Pro model comes equipped with a built-in pico projector that can project an image up to 50 inches on a wall as its defining feature.

AN DEN

the Pro tablet comes equipped with a subwoofer and an 8-watt speaker,

AN DEN

AN DEN???

AN DEN???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp5nUQkgWIc

Yeah, don't think i'll ever be able to take Ashton Kutcher seriously.

 

[69Mustang]

This is a farce of a statement. I've used a few Lenovo laptops($400 to $600 range) over the last 2 years and they are the best made laptops in the Windows universe. They are rock solid.

Poppycock. The failure rate on Lenovo laptops of that price range is pitiful. Their service options for hardware failures are appalling. We supplied them for a couple of months and then reverted to the TOSHIBA systems. At least Tosh have next day on parts if you're a service centre. Lenovo was a whole different story.

2 month ETA on a mainboard for a system barely a year old (Z570 I think it was). We had to pay out of our pockets to replace that POS due to our strict SLAs. The reason being: they ship that many different models all with slightly differing screw placements and specifications, that they don't have the backing or infrastructure to support the crap they manufacture.

But hey, I'm sure your personal experience with two cheap Lenovo laptops makes my statement a farce.

Both statements are anecdotal. Neither is proof of anything definitive. Some like Lenovo, some don't. Same with Apple.

 

[Keirasplace]

I wouldn't. I'd have the same comments. You need a good surface on which to project. This means either a screen or a nicely painted surface. Typical home walls don't fall into this category. My friend did this for his home theatre instead of purchasing a screen, but it wouldn't be common and that's the only wall on which he did it (for a permanent projector install).

The built in projector would be better for business use cases than home/entertainment, imho. if your spreadsheet doesn't have accurate colors, probably not such a big deal for an impromptu meeting, but projecting onto a non-white/gray (and very smooth) wall to watch a movie will look like crap.

Yes, projecting on walls is not very good for media use; just finding one long enough at the right place is difficult. Walls are rarely smooth enough, the right reflectance or the right color to be OK. Its OK probably as a presentation / meeting tool.

I like those short throw projectors; so I don't think it is a bad idea per say, but not for watching movies or TV unless you also have the screen to project it on and the projector is bright enough (probably not the case in a portable). If you have that, you might as well buy a much higher quality real projector too (they're not that expensive these days).

 

[CoMoMacUser]

People don't want tablets, they want iPads.

Some do. Some don't. I got the iPad 1 shortly after it came out. Great machine. My only regret was upgrading to 5.x because the additional features didn't outweigh the performance hit.

I still use the iPad 1 for email, browsing and a few apps. My main tablet is now a Lenovo Lynx. Great machine, too. The lack of Windows apps is a non-issue for me because as I learned from the iPad, most of my tablet time is spent with the email client and browser.

I like being able to have a screen split between two things, as well as have multiple browser tabs open simultaneously. I also like the Lynx's wide screen.

To each his/her own.

 

[UnfetteredMind]

according to wikipedia his intended major in college was biochemical engineering so i guess he had some experience but it is still surprising he was given the job/title.

Intended major. I started down the path of study to be an electrical engineer (was looking at electroacoustics), was even accepted into the school of engineering, but I didn't complete it. I am not an engineer and I was much further along than just intending to become one, lol

 

[576316]

Companies need to stop bringing in clueless celebrities purely for the publicity. Like Intel employing Will.I.Am. What could any of these people possibly have to offer a technology company?

"Look, Ashton Kutcher designs our products. Do you want to buy them yet?"

Apple don't need to do this. Their key engineers and executives ARE celebrities.

 

[AppleWarMachine]

Yoga 2 Who?
I didn't know that they had a yoga 1
Good luck with that