Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 review: finally a good touch-screen PC

Playing Angry Birds, piano and Fruit Ninja on 27 inches

By Frank Everaardt, Friday 5 October 2012 04:58


From piano to Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja

The base is one of the more unique aspects of this PC. You can tilt the screen a little, and you can lay it down flat so it sits completely horizontal. It turns it into a kind of tabletop touch-screen computer, fun for playing a game with someone, or for playing the piano together facing each other. Crazy pianos, but in your living room.

Lenovo IdeaCentre A720

If you use it like that you could encounter one of the limitations of this system, and that's the 10 touch points. It's enough for one person's fingers of course, but with two people playing piano you could occasionally exceed that number.

Lenovo IdeaCentre A720
Lenovo includes a number of games.

Even with Windows 7 Lenovo managed to make this into a fun product that really takes advantage of the touch interface. One of these is the touch-optimised IdeaTouch environment that includes a video player, a digital photo album, a music player and an ebook reader. Lenovo also pre-installed a number of games, including the popular Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, a card game, curling and air hockey. You also get a program for taking notes, and software for logging in with a photo.

Lenovo IdeaCentre A720
Fruit Ninja on 27 inches.



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