Today, Lenovo has released their first “Ultrabook Workstation”. You may think “That’s a contradiction” - in a way it is, but Lenovo needs to watch the competitions, which are either innovating or copying their competitions (like the Macbook Pro/Air and the Lenovo Yoga). Dell has the Precision M3800, Apple its MacBook Pro 15, and HP its ZBook 14 (though this one falls a little bit out of line as a 14” model). There was a missing piece in last year’s ThinkPad lineup, and it was the lack of a 15” Ultrabook model (while there was the S540, it wasn’t available globally and it was also a lower-end model). So Lenovo needed to react to the increased competitions to fully cover its base. That is why the **W550s was (is) born - a premium business Ultrabook with workstation attributes. It was announced today at the Autodesk University 2014 conference along with the W541** (more on that later…). Lets get into the spec sheet for the W550s first and then analyze a bit further what exactly this product is:
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As you may know, the Windows 8.x is not a commercial success by any stretch of imagination. While I personally love the Windows 8.1, many people don’t for various reasons, some warranted and some not. One of the most important reason for disliking the Windows 8.x OS is the **inconsistency. The Windows 8.x user interface is a Frankenstein’s creation, a marriage of disparity. The modern design of the Metro Start Screen did not with the traditional design of the desktop, which stayed the same as Windows 7 desktop. Another element that don’t quite fit in was the classic themed **Control Panel**, which was exactly the same as in Windows 7. Because of that, Microsoft had another place for Settings: The modern UI app called “PC Settings**”. This was necessary, as the classic style control panel was (and is) not touch-friendly, with the menu style largely stay unchanged since the Windows 95. It felt cluttered and really useless if don’t know exactly where you have to set up something - and its small dialog windows are impossible to resize, and not compatible with modern feature like scaling.