No. It’s aimed at the business market, and the Thinkpad brand is premium business brand, and thus is less price sensitive than the consumer market (outside of Apple).

Also, list prices of Lenovo products are mostly fictional anyway, so until we see them for sale on the Lenovo web site, we won’t know what the real price will be. Note: It could sell at $799, in which case the list price on the site will probably be around $1100 or more.

Such deceptions are typically illegal in the UK and other EC countries, but then, they take consumer protection a little more seriously than in the USA, since they seem to believe that “consumer protection” is code for “government screwing you over.”

It may not change your mind but you should still check out the reviews when they come out.

These newer ATOM based tablets won’t be a sluggish device like previous ATOM based tablets.

Windows 8 is easier to run, takes up less drive space, handles resources better, and it looks like the Clover Trail is going to provide the upper range of ATOM performance. Along with performance boosters like the use of SSDs instead of HDDs and minimum of 2GB of installed RAM.

So should provide at least 50% better raw performance than previous ATOM tablets and a bit more from the improved efficiency.

Mind, most ARM tablets won’t give you a full USB 2.0 port, nor a desktop capable OS, features like a WACOM digitizer pen are still pretty rare…

While it’s also rare for a x86 tablet to have 3G/4G options and almost unheard of to get around 10 hours run time on a single internal battery.

A Core i-series tablet will provide more performance but until the 10W Haswell comes out later, next year, then they’ll also provide you significantly less run time and won’t come in such a thin and light form factor. Along with being notably higher priced…