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As I watched Intel CEO Paul Otellini at CES 2012 announce that both Motorola and Lenovo would be shipping x86 Android smartphones, just one question echoed around my skull: So what?

Reading through the details of Medfield, the SoC that that provides the foundation for Intel’s smartphone push, the same question began to reverberate.

CNet: "Lenovo is launching its own tablet to debut in China by the end of this year."

Linux User and Developer: "When we reviewed the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100 not long ago, we had one critical complaint: while the system looked sleek, it ran too slow for even rudimentary tasks."

Last year we noted that while it was amusing to see a lawsuit from someone angry that they had to pay to downgrade from Vista to XP on their computer, it was hard to see how it was an antitrust violation, as the lawsuit was alleging.

As we joked, perhaps that could be Microsoft's new business model: keep coming out with worse and worse operating systems, but charge people more and more to stick with the older systems.

ZDNet: "A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers."

Cyber Cynic: "I'm puzzled. Desktop Linux, for the first time ever, has at least 1% of the desktop market.

Linux probably has considerably more than that. So, why is Lenovo's Worldwide Competitive Analyst Matt Kohut claiming that Linux has no future on netbooks?"

Last month, we reported here about Splashtop, which starts a laptop in only a few seconds.

Since then, Splashtop reportedly has found its way into the Lenovo IdeaPad S10e and the ASUS Eee PC.

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The decision to drop the product was based on Lenovo choosing to use its online store to push the company's most popular computers.