#2, there is! The HP tc1100 :) It was the older cousin to your 2710p, if you aren't familiar with it... I got mine for about $400 on eBay; it's got a 10" active Wacom digitizer, 1.2Ghz Pentium-M, 2GB of memory, and I put a 120GB hard drive in it so it's great for watching movies, surfing the web, reading .pdfs, whatever. I highly recommend it. It's only 3lbs (4 with the detachable keyboard, so great for using as a Kindle). Just FYI, since you know HPs, a friend of mine just got a tc2500 and my display is better, hands-down. His does that weird "negative" thing when you look at it from an angle, while mine looks great from all angles (I looked it up in the specs and it's a "Hydis" display if that means anything to you) - I was actually considering upgrading to a tc2500 in the future, but after seeing that his 1280x800 12" display was not really all that much bigger than my 1024x768 10" display, I think I'll stick with mine a while longer. So if you want hardened glass and a slick magnesium case like your 2710p, check it out! Oh yeah, it runs Vista like a champ. Or, if you prefer XP, they came that way. Hell, I've even seen OS X on them. Great little machines.

The X200s is lighter and uses lower-power processors than the X200.

For those who don't know who that is in the video, it's Matt Kohut (NOT Tom Ribble, Cyril -- watch the video ffs :p), who writes Lenovo's "Inside The Box" blog. [1] A lot of what he blogs about is quite interesting, such as why standard aspect displays are no longer common, why high quality IPS displays are now sparse, what considerations there are in designing and choosing docking stations for laptops, how the materials used are important, what switchable graphics are and why you'd want them, whether or not to opt for SSDs, and so on.

His videoblogging skills aren't that great, but he himself is pretty awesome in my book. (And I don't even own a ThinkPad any more.)

[1] http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/

I always disliked convertible tablets.

/me wants an X200s, but wow, it's way more expensive than the X200.

I've got an HP 2710p. Same size and specs, roughly. I really like it, but to use it as a kindle-like reader it's too big and heavy. Battery life just reading is a good 4hrs though.

If there was a 10" tablet like this with an active digitizer and hardened glass, I would sell my 2710p and buy it. But, the active digitizers from Wacom only come in 7-8" or 12". They don't make a 10" yet, or so I've heard.

Yeesh, why such an amateurish home-video ?