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Lenovo X201T reviews shows a fully packed touch tablet
We’ve talked about Lenovo’s X201T 12 inch multi touch tablet that leaked first on a Lenovo roadmap and then showed up in an Australian online store. Now Engadget managed to get their hands on one and had put a small review for all of us to read, showcasing the good and bad of the 1900 $ tablet.
As we’ve said earlier, this is the first convertible touch tablet fitted with an Intel Core i7 Low voltage CPU, the 2.13GHz 640LM model in this case, a pretty powerful beast that runs cool enough to get around 4 hours of video playback and 6 hours of office work from the 8 cell battery which is lower than your usual Intel ULV notebook but doesn’t suffer in any way from performance point of view and is capable of HD video playback and a pretty snappy user experience overall in Windows 7 running multiple applications at the same time.
The Lenovo Thinkpad X201T
From construction point of view there are minor differences from the previous Lenovo X200T tablet, most notable being the tiny touchpad that lacked in previous models, so we have pretty much the same solid Thinkpad construction with magnesium alloy cage. There’s even a short video below which highlights the multi touch experience and how things work in real life with the Lenovo X201T tablet:
Update: The Lenovo Thinkpad X201T can be now purchased online for 1600$ 0n Amazon.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.