Got yourself an iPad? YOU IDIOT! As Laptop, the “pulse of mobile tech” shows, it’s merely a round-one contender in a 2011 Tablet World Series. (Hat tip: Brooks Review.) As you can see, if you nip through to the site, the tablet champion of champions is in fact the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, which has taken the world by storm and has sold millions since you started reading this article.

Laptop says:

With strong features like a scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass display, support for enterprise-level security software / encryption, and an optional active stylus, the ThinkPad Tablet simply dominated the game this weekend. Users were undoubtedly also attracted by the ThinkPad Tablet’s productivity-centric software, including its note-taking app and file manager. Full-size USB ports and SD card slots also helped the ThinkPad tablet’s case.

Or: readers of Laptop (responsible for the voting and final outcome) are deluded anti-Apple nutters, given that they had the ASUS Eee Pad Slider win out over the iPad 2. (It’s one thing to prefer another system over the iPad—fair enough—but the Eee Pad Slider? Really?)

Laptop again:

Could the ThinkPad Tablet’s win herald a new appreciation for productivity

Goddammit, now I have to delete all my productivity apps from the iPad again, because, apparently, it’s not a device for productivity. Only the wonderful Lenovo ThinkPad, with its unique Documents to Go (enabling you to edit, view and create Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, and not at all available on, say, iOS) gives you productivity!

and for pen-based input?

In other news, perhaps we could get rid of those nasty touchpads and mice and return to keys alone on the desktop. And those cars? Horrible. Horse and cart, please. And sanitation? DISASTER! Let’s wallow in mud, consider the sun a god, and kick each-other’s faces off for instead thinking something else is a god, such as the moon, a tree, or a particularly dashing squirrel.

Extra points to the Laptop readers for voting the Amazon Kindle Fire—a tablet that isn’t out yet—into round two. Dreams beat reality, I guess, which perhaps is another reason why the ThinkPad Tablet won out overall.