MultiTouch
We moved onto MultiTouch and asked why Lenovo has embraced this technology so enthusiastically.
"It's not intended to take over all usages, but where it works, it works well," said O'Sullivan. "When the sales force requires a signature, it does very well. A lot of corporations have rolled out tablets, but what's unique about ours is that it works as both a tablet and a clamshell.
"The Super T has been modeled with and without MultiTouch. Our strategy is to offer the best technology to our customers and if they value it, they purchase it and if they don't, they don't. MultiTouch is also very intuitive so it can speed up operations and make the end-user feel very productive."
It's clear that O'Sullivan, and Lenovo on the whole, is excited by the possibilities presented by Microsoft's new OS. "I think Windows 7 has some great advances in touch, so that will help this ecosystem and make it easier for software vendors to incorporate touch into their applications," she said.
"I've been using Windows 7 for some time now and I just love it. We work very closely with Microsoft; they have done much more testing with their ODMs and it's just right. If somebody wanted to take it off my system I would not let them."
So does O'Sullivan think the broader market shares her enthusiasm for Windows 7 and thus, does he expect a big spike in sales around the launch? "Our strategy is we're going to make sure we have whatever the customers want," she said.
"So some large enterprises will be on a slower roll-out, others want to be ready day one. But we've gone gold on manufacturing systems, which means we've passed all our testing, and we're ready. We want to have enough, on hand, so that people who want them on the 22nd can have them."
