Artificial Insite

We got to mess around with Lenovo’s new IdeaPad lineup tonight — those new ThinkPads were mysteriously absent, however — and while we’d say Lenovo is playing it pretty safe at the moment, we still like what we see. The hinge design that first emerged in the U110 is now present in the whole line, and while the ThinkPad heritage has been hidden under mounds of glossy plastic, it’s still fairly evident in the build quality of the laptops, and particularly in those well-loved keyboards.