Comments on: Lenovo X201T reviews shows a fully packed touch tablet

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:08:10 +0000

Thanks Marc. It’s still a great machine, only the purchasing experience was sub-standard. It came with Vista preinstalled and the promise of Windows 7 upgrade. I received the laptop whilst the upgrade offer was valid, however I didn’t try and obtain the upgrade until the week after the upgrade offer expired (I didn’t know). Despite my complaints and the fact that I had bought the laptop during the upgrade window, Lenovo refused to supply me with a Windows 7 upgrade. I bought my own and installed it. I will be very careful about buying any new-but-clearance deals from IT suppliers in future.

By: Marc Mitchell

Marc Mitchell — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:06:25 +0000

I’m afraid I’m with Mario, all the way.

Any laptop that was released last year and was advertised as ‘mulit-touch’ should recognise more than one contact on the screen at the same time in order to change the zoom setting.

Sounds to me like he was duped, IMHO.

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:52:01 +0000

Let me clarify. I don’t know who was first to use the term multitouch (Lenovo? Microsoft Surface? Apple?) but for Lenovo to sell a laptop at the end of 2009 as ‘multitouch’ brooks no argument. Nothing more than deception to shift stock.

Having said that, I would buy another X series tablet in future as this one is a decent piece of kit. Only real problem (apart from the ‘multitouch’ which I don’t use much) is that it doesn’t have a thinklight. I don’t miss the trackpad as I’ve always been an eraserhead user.

By: John Pope

John Pope — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:18:54 +0000

Wallace, multi touch means you can use more than one finger at a time, and the display is able to sense that. Without multi touch you can’t do things like pinch zoom, two finger scroll and so on.

By: wallace

wallace — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:13:12 +0000

As far as I understand it, the definition of multi-touch for tablets has always meant the tablets ability to recognize either a tablet pen or other object, such as your finger. I believe you should have done some more research, Mario. Lenovo didn’t fail you; you failed yourself.

By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:30:09 +0000

I currently have an X200T that I was told was multitouch by Lenovo. Only after Windows 7 was released did I find out that it wasn’t! Or rather, what Windows 7 calls Multitouch was called Enhanced Multitouch by Lenovo, and what Lenovo called Multitouch was ‘you can use one finger or a stylus’. FAIL, Lenovo, FAIL.