<p>Would you get either tablet/pc for university? If so, which one?</p>
<p>Well, first of all, neither are available for purchase today, so nobody can claim any experience in using them in an academic setting. The Lenovo U1 is as fully-featured as a netbook gets, but in addition, the screen can be detached to become a stand-alone touch screen tablet. When you detach, you lose some of the functionality of the attached configuration. As a matter of fact, you are running on a different processor entirely.</p>
<p>The iPad can be docked to a keyboard to allow for typing, but that is not as convenient as the U1 when attached to a keyboard. The screen on the iPad is superior in image quality to pre-production U1 screens.</p>
<p>If I were going to get one or the other, I would go for the iPad, which looks like a wonderful piece of hardware to me. My only concern would be how well will it do in being able to read/write MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents that you would tend to encounter in college classes. It looks like Apple’s iWork suite can handle Word and PowerPoint files, but I wonder about Excel.</p>
<p>The U1 seems kind of expensive ($1,000 minimum) for what it is. for the same money, you could buy yourself a fully-featured Windows 7 laptop.</p>
<p>Bottom line, I think that neither might be fully up to what you need in a college computer. For the same money as a U1, you could buy a MacBook that is only slightly larger and will be more fully-featured (except, of course, for the detachable touch screen).</p>
<p>i think Lenovo’s idea is quite horrible.</p>
<p>I’d go for the iPad also. (it can do Excel by the way with iWork)
But, I’d wait. iPad is not a computer. It’s a giant iPod touch, so whether it’ll be more useful than others will have to wait.</p>