[userbinator]

Unfortunately I don't think Lenovo has the market dominance and/or desire that IBM had in the early 80s with the PC to make their ARM platform the de-facto standard, which means this is going to be yet another of many proprietary platforms whose only thing in common is the instruction set. This is no doubt going to be very different from Apple's ARM platform, for example. Even the next model or revision might have some things completely different.

I still remember the days when "IBM PC compatible" meant (at the very least, a desire to) something.

If Lenovo releases the schematics and detailed architecture reference like IBM did with the PC, they might start another PC revolution; but I doubt they will.