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I have several of these for the line of work I do. It is a great tablet, battery lasts all day (intermittent use). The screen is not as bright as I would like, considering I am outdoors most of the time. However, it is fine once you find some shade. Use it mostly for research on the net (public records), so the processor speed is not important. It is in my car all day and the temperatures do get hot. No problem for this tablet, though. It is great product for the price. The fan does tend to get noisy and on one of my tablets, I had to replace it. Inexpensive fans from either China or Hong Kong can be found on eBay. I've upgraded each one I own (purchased on eBay) with a 1TB drive (I take 1000's of pictures and need larger drives).
Very pleased with my "new" Lenovo Thinkpad X61. The size and weight make it convenient to take anywhere. The rotatable screen is nice feature that I have never had before. The display is slightly dimmer than some other laptops I have had but it seems to be less prone to fading when screen is tilted. I installed a Linux Mint OS which is lightning fast on the X61. Over the three weeks I have used it, it has performed flawlessly. It has become my "go to" laptop.
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Great all around labtop. You could have the T60 series which are just over sized versions of these, Or the smaller X61 series. Using any x86 operating system will leave you with an option of 4Gig of Ram in most cases. These labtops are great for having a decent experience with computers and is extremly powerful. Note these are not game machine labtop nore I would recomend any labtop to run games on them. However I reccomend them above all other labtops. The X series advantage over the T60 is the access to the RAM without removing the keyboard. The later series do not have the markers ( those green blinking lights ). Which are rather nice. It is like a car that informs you of things, rather then an OSX machine that leaves you in the blank. There is also a switch to turn on/off the Wifi ( I do not know if these is on the T60 ). Note that certain X61 models are touch screen/pen tablets. However most non-swerving ones are more powerful in terms of proccessor. From my understanding there should be a few 2.5/3Ghz model floating around out there but the 1.6/2Ghz model does just fine as well. Only Minus point to this Think series is the arm rest. Which could break easily if you use your weight on it. As the PCMIA/expresss expansion slot is hollow without anything inserted inside of it. I do not care about the heat since it is relaxing. As with batteries. The batteries are terrible on all thinkpad models. It is suggested to keep the battery at 40% when not in use but never leave this labtop plugged in at 100%. A battery at 100% is like a person lifting wieghts with all there might. You do not want your battery to have a bicep blow-out situation. If the battery ever is allowed to reach 0% or even further it will most likely be unable to charge again. Continuesly discharging to 0% will prevent the battery from charging as it holds a small charge under 0%, which is to enable the battery to charge. So remember to keep the battery around 40% when it is not being used, Right now I have my battery at 80%. When I plan to take it out I should drop it to 40% as the battery is naturaly and slowly discharging when not plugged in. These batteries could last for days ( depending on how much of a charge is left ) in sleep mode but is not advised as sleep mode uses a small amount of energy and is slowly discharging the battery. IF you have this or any other Thinkpad plugged in 24/7 it is advise to plug out the battery. Thinkpad as with Windows, have an extremly big community with supporters. Paired of with Debian/UNix could make an extremly decent portable computer to use when you need it. I am not a fan of wireless technology but you could always turn of the radio of the labtop, witha special switch. Thinkpads ( all should have ) there signature rubber mouse tract pad. Which could be fast and slow depends on the kind of user you are. I find these very fast over the touch mouse interface. Note the X61 models do not have touch but the T60 models have both touch and button mouse. As I have been using the X61 series a lot lately over the T60 I would go with the X61 series. Also the nicest things about this laptop is the IBM keyboard. The keyboard is comfortable to use and learn. Speaking of which are making a comeback over the flat small keyboards. Most labtops being "pimped" out and modified are Thinkpads, next to PPC Apples and there intel variant.Read full review
I bought this laptop because I read good reviews and I wanted something cheap with a fingerprint scanner. However, the palm rest gets noticeably hot after performing simple tasks. This one had Windows 8 and it was extremely slow. The pointer is annoying because it drifts off without notice.
Nice laptop, and it works great so far. I'm still new to drawing on the screen, sometimes it's difficult, but that may be only the learning curve.