Originally Posted by alan1302:
“Surface is for a totally different market and price point though”
Well there are two Surfaces; RT and Pro. RT being the low-end ARM version intended for consumer use and Pro with its Core i5 is intended as a business/prosumer device.
The main advantage RT has is that ARM systems will generally beat the hell out of x86 systems in terms of battery life. However is Clovertrail can deliver a 10 hour battery life, it makes RT seems a bit pointless. You get the benefits of ARM without the drawback of losing backwards-compatibility.
Surface Pro should be a lot more powerful than this Lenovo tablet (being that even a ULV Core i5 will crap all over Clovertrail in the performance stakes), but will not be coming with the 10+ hour battery life that the Atom architecture allows. (not until Haswell hits anyway)