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Do we really think the Lenovo Horizon Table PC will launch a nation-sweeping trend of computer-based family game nights? No.
What the Horizon does do, though, is demonstrate that the PC industry still has plenty of interesting ideas.
You can read our full hands-on with the Horizon here. The gist of it though is that it's a 27-inch Windows 8 all-in-one touch-screen computer that you can lay down flat. It also has a battery. You would not use this giant computer as a walk-around-the-house device, but its portability does mean that you can set it up in a den, and then pull it out to use on a coffee table without dealing with the power cable.
Lenovo ships the Horizon with a software environment designed for multiuser input, and it's also shipping a library of apps -- over 3,000, says Lenovo -- as well as an assortment of physical input designed to work with those apps. Communal fun and games should theoretically ensue.
Lenovo's 27-inch multi-user PC
Some of you might use the Horizon that way. But Lenovo demonstrated two other modes that suggest some more exciting possibilities.
One has the Horizon attached to a rolling stand that turns it into a kind of mobile interactivity station. Hospitals, schools, businesses, and other institu... [Read more]
by Rich Brown via CNET
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