By Herman Lai, posted Jan 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, 10,274 views,

This Lenovo All-In-One PC is What Apple iMac Should Have Done (Video)

Here is a good news for anyone who wants a desktop PC, but also a bad news for Apple. Lenovo unveiled a 27-inch all-In-One desktop machine that supports 10-finger capacitive multitouch! That’s very enough since Lenovo won’t expect anyone to have 11 fingers. What’s more? The screen can be adjusted as flat as Microsoft Surface, which works like a “Giant Tablet”. We wonder why didn’t Apple add these features to their iMac? Watch the video to see how this amazingly cool hybrid works after the break.

The specs? It packs in a Core-i7 Sandy Bridge CPU, 8GB of RAM, up to 1.8TB of storage space (with SSD options), a 2GB discrete graphics card and a slot-loading Blu-ray drive. The screen has a maximum resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels, and it is more responsive than the IR technology used in other touchscreen all-in-ones, such as HP’s Touchsmart. It can slide down at an angle to make onscreen typing more convenient, or like a touch-table for playing touch-enabled games. Lenovo expects to start shipping the A720 in the first half of 2012 at an estimated $1300. Lenovo also unveiled their new IdeaPad Yoga convertible ultrabook that converts from notebook into tablet today.

The build quality of A720 is impressive. Its weight seems a bit on the heavy side, but the aluminum chassis is gorgeous, giving us a solid and premium feel. Moreover, A720 comes bundled with a wireless keyboard, which looks very similar to Apple wireless keyboard. However, it is made by plastic peripherals, which seems a bit awkward when putting it in front of the gigantic metal beauty.

Touchscreen PC Mode

Tablet Mode

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Source: PCwatch, TechDigest

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  • SOFA king

    drools omgz i want it now

  • http://tommychen.org Tommy Chen

    This is over kill, made for the .5% of the user-base. It might be more successful with Windows 8 metro ui on there, but evidence from the failed HP’s TouchSmart line tells us people dont need / want this. The iMac is fine the way it is and will definitely sell better this dud.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Andrades/100000662511826 Anthony Andrades

    Nasty, and pointless. This thing will not sell.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6ECHFBXSOZMCZ43G2YDV3CPCFI Mario

    Lenovo should stick to making their excellent laptops. This thing is not very elegant.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4DCUV4Z6ZVXUPX6G7NO2DL2Q5Y madker

    pretty nice

  • Pepe

    La pantalla táctil falla más que una escopeta de feria.

  • http://clickplow.com/ John

    Why would i want fingerprints all over my screen? Its hard enough to keep them off my iMac, the last thing i’d want is a reason to touch my screen on a regular basis.

  • Anonymous

    Nice.

    But the vast majority of users would not want to use a touch screen Mac.  You get tired of having to reach out your arms to touch the screen after a while.

    This was proven by Apple’s usability testing per Steve Jobs.

    Try using Photoshop with your fingers, for example.  You quickly smudge the screen and impair your ability to use Photoshop.

    Icon on a computer are also not sized for finger use.  This is why touchscreens for Windows don’t work well.

    Flash also doesn’t work with touchscreens. This is more true for desktop computers.

    • s2weden2000

      touchscreens for win7 works just fine ..been using a tablet pc for almost 4 years now hp tx2 ..no problem what so ever

  • http://www.facebook.com/avileidner David Charles Avi Leidner

    without reading beyond the tech bullet points and the inferred question (why didn’t Apple do this with the new iMac), two overwhelmingly obvious responses come to mind.  The first is so out-in-front that it’s become sort of easy to miss – The last design revision (in other words the last “new model design” or the “new iMac”) Apple made to the iMac was in 2009.  Lenovo has either designed a whole new computer from the ground up to make it all that it is, or done everything they can to try to look like they have, though scanning through the actual piece here on it, I only ran across one observation comparing it with an apple product (the keyboard).  Not really sure from what perspective it could be thought that Apple should have done …. well …. what Lenovo did do, which is not really all that clear …. except that they introduced a brand new (more or less) design model …. that really really looks like it’s trying to figure everything possible to get over on the iMac and Apple and … hmmm …. well, personally, i don’t use an iMac, but I do work on photography, music and video quite a bit, and from that experience can say assuredly that I would NOT and do not want that.  I need the computer to do what is most important for a computer to be able to do, because when it comes to the screen I’m using to see what I’m doing with my computer and any/all tools attached to it, I need that screen to show me, at the very least, what I will expect the majority of people’s screens will show them (whomever might eventually see what i’m working on), and if I want to use a touch screen to do some task in a particular way, I’ll plug one in, or two, or plug in my wacom intros, or projector, or 71 weighted key m-audio midi controller, or a tablet via wifi, or all of those and more (good thing the most recent mac mini revision has all usb 3.0 ports and thunderbolt ; ) So even though I don’t use an iMac, I don’t think a ten finger giant iPad with some extra ports would have been anything apple should have done.  I was initially a wee bit irked to find no optical drive built into the new mini …. until I noticed the SD card slot and the light went on (as the transcend sdhc class 10 cards drop below a buck a gig on line)

    • DilbertAsended

      GWOT

  • http://profiles.google.com/togotooner Todd Dolce

    Is the screen at least able to accept pressure sensitivity so that I can use a wacom enabled pen on it in tablet mode?