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

Lenovo Product Engineer Ashton Kutcher?!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

He may be right, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
 
aajeevlin said:
After reading the title my first thought was, Wow Lenovo has an engineer named exactly the same as the actor? But then I realized IT IS the actor. I guess anybody can be an engineer these days.

Forget about 4 years of BS + 2 years of MS plus years and years of work experience. Just become a famous enough actor, and they will give you any title for free.

I'm not hating on him in particular, but lately it just seems like if you are famous enough and a tech company is willing to work with you, you will immediately be giving an engineering or a consultant title. Despite the fact you probably have no experience in that area.
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He's been involved in tech for quite a while and has been surprisingly successful. He has a good eye for companies to invest in and IMO is better in tech than he is in film.

People to often let their knowledge of someone's experience in one field completely cloud their perspective of them as an individual.

Don't get me wrong. I don't appreciate him as a talent in acting. However I do think he's a shockingly astute business man.
 
ellsworth said:
This proves that titles mean NOTHING. A person can have what-ever title they want but it doesn't mean they know what they're doing with it.
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Not quite:

donnaw said:
Just as a note, here in Texas you cannot legally call yourself an 'engineer' unless you actually have an engineering license from the state, which entails education, a rigorous test, and actual experience.
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It's the same in Canada.
 
keysofanxiety said:
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.
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But hey, I'm sure your personal experience is more important than mine.
A HEman among men.
Go look in the mirror.
Pat yourself on the back.
You're awesome.
 
I use my IPAD for watching TV, as a radio, reading magazines, keeping all my field guides (reference books), podcasts, catalogs, and other media uses.

I think Lenovo has it right. The tablet is really a media center. I still surf on the net using my laptop since it is much easier.

I also upgraded my IPAD to IOS7 and promptly turned it into a brick for using it for playing video's. Now instead of displaying in HD I get a blurred image!!

It seems I cannot go back.......now that is a feature that I can really appreciate in the Lenovo. The ability to go back in operating system versions.
 
Terrin said:
Say what you will about him, but he does actually have an engineering degree. With that said, he clearly was brought on for marketing purposes not engineering.
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I read that he started out as a engineer but he never actually finish the degree, he dropped out got pick up as a model and such.

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joejoejoe said:
He's been involved in tech for quite a while and has been surprisingly successful. He has a good eye for companies to invest in and IMO is better in tech than he is in film.

People to often let their knowledge of someone's experience in one field completely cloud their perspective of them as an individual.

Don't get me wrong. I don't appreciate him as a talent in acting. However I do think he's a shockingly astute business man.
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As someone who follows tech/science/engineering news on a daily basis, this is the first time I have heard his name associated with any tech related project. Maybe he choses to be the man behind the door. What else did he worked on?
 
2Gb Ram?

"Yoga Tablet 2 Pro" with Windows has only 2Gb Ram??????

Lol, anything less than 8Gb is obsolete, not just @home, in store already!
 
joejoejoe said:
He's been involved in tech for quite a while and has been surprisingly successful. He has a good eye for companies to invest in and IMO is better in tech than he is in film.

People to often let their knowledge of someone's experience in one field completely cloud their perspective of them as an individual.

Don't get me wrong. I don't appreciate him as a talent in acting. However I do think he's a shockingly astute business man.
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I can't really agree more. Besides, other companies NEED to try different ideas, if they were just copies of the iPad, everyone here would cry copycat! Besides, it's not like Apple hasn't had any failed ideas.
 
Tablet with mobile OS or tablet with REAL os?

Real os is where it's at. Someone is just lagging behind. It's coming but might be too late.
 
Does anyone else think this looks exactly like the apple wireless keyboard with that tube at the end for the batteries? Because I can't look at it any other way.
 
Why doesn't Apple have sub-woofers in the iPad ?

They don't enough about sound quality ?
 
I could see some (novelty) viability in the 13 inch model as a "deskpad" if you can install software that runs your home's domotica.

Won't be selling a lot of them, but I must applaud Lenovo for (trying to) thinking out of the box concerning tablets.

About Ashton, I liked him in that 70's show and in 2 1/2 men.
Yip, the Steve Jobs movie wasn't a good movie, but it wasn't a bad movie either. Making a movie over Steve Jobs, who was a visionary, but also a prick will never be fantastic. How many rewrittes has the Sorkin movie, actor and director changes by now? If "Jobs" comes on Netflix, just grab a beer and some pretzels.
 
The icons are an exact copy of the iOS7/8 icons (gallery, music...) Even Samsung didn't do this.
 
Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2
Yoga???
So like Yoga, does it bend? :p
Is this a bendable tablet?

And yeh, since when is Ashton Kutcher an engineer? So bizarre! :confused: :p
 
Looks like this tablet works on AAA batteries like apple keyboard
Quite convenient, i'd say
 
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