Inherited the classic of Black! Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Review

Spend a bit of time with the Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet, and you're likely to become a fan of pen-based computing. This update to the company's ultraportable X41 Tablet includes a few key upgrades on the usability front, including a touch screen display, an improved stylus, and the new Active Rotate feature (more on that below). When it's not folded into a tablet, the ThinkPad X60 Tablet also makes a good ultraportable laptop, with a Core Duo processor and decent-size 80GB hard drive. You'll have to pay to have the best tablet on the block, though: the X60 Tablet's price starts at $1,699, but our review unit included a number of upgrades that brought its price to $2,299--and that still didn't include even an external optical drive. If you're looking for a laptop with an optical drive that you can occasionally use as a tablet, look to larger systems such as the Gateway M285-E. But for those who can afford it, the flexible, highly portable ThinkPad X60 Tablet combines the best features of a tablet and a laptop.


The display's surface provides enough drag to make onscreen writing feel natural, if not exactly like pen and paper. The ThinkPad X60 Tablet's stylus has a bit more heft than its predecessor's; Lenovo also added a rubberized finish for comfortable gripping and a digital eraser on the top that works just like a pencil eraser. For working in laptop mode, the X60 Tablet includes the supercomfortable ThinkPad keyboard as well as a red TrackPoint pointing stick; beneath the keyboard are three mouse buttons (the center acts as a scroll button). 

The port selection on the ThinkPad X60 Tablet is about average for an ultraportable and includes mini-FireWire, VGA, and three USB 2.0 plugs (two side by side) plus headphone and microphone jacks. All that's missing is an S-Video port, as found on the HP Compaq tc4400. Networking options include modem, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth, and 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi; 802.11n wireless and WWAN are available as upgrades. A Type II PC Card slot reads ExpressCards via an adapter, and there's a handy Secure Digital flash card reader, though not the multiformat flash card reader we're used to seeing on traditional notebooks. While we understand Lenovo's decision to save on size and weight by forgoing a built-in optical drive, we do wish at least an external drive was included in the ThinkPad X60 Tablet's price.


Our exact ThinkPad X60 Tablet review unit, with the upgrade to a touch screen display, won't be 
available until later this month. A version of the system with a standard tablet display and otherwise identical configuration, however, is available today for $2,099. That price includes decent specs for such a lightweight tablet, starting with a 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo L2400 processor; 1GB of swift 667MHz RAM; an 80GB, 5,400rpm hard drive; and integrated Intel graphics. On CNET Labs' performance benchmarks, the X60 Tablet wasn't quite as good at multitasking as its ultraportable competitors, the Asus S6F and the Dell Latitude D420, and it fell between the two systems on our Photoshop tests. But when it came to the processor-intensive iTunes encoding test, the ThinkPad X60 Tablet's slightly higher processor speed resulted in performance that was at least 10 percent faster than that of the Asus and the Dell, all of which adds up to an ultraportable tablet that feels and acts like a real laptop when it comes to typical productivity and maybe even some light number-crunching. 


Performance testing for ThinkPad X60 is already seem less important. After all, this is a less than 1.5Kg weight 12-inch notebook. And for this laptop users battery life are the key most concerned about, X60 also give us a satisfactory answer. It is a 3 -core 14.4V 2600mAh lithium-ion battery measured battery has more than four hours, which makes us very surprised ! The Chamber of Commerce of sales can provide customers a variety of cells, and with the maximum capacity of the battery, X60 battery life span can be more than 11 hours, users no longer need to worry about batteries .

Summary: From the compare with Toshiba M500, we see that, although the Lenovo Thinkpad X60 price is even lower than the Toshiba M500, but the performance was batter than Toshiba M500, and it is laudable. However, we also see some of the inadequacies of the Lenovo Thinkpad X60. For example, it has no optical drives and fingerprint recognition. To sum up, as a thin and light business notebook, the Lenovo Thinkpad X60 has a remarkable performance. It followed the last classic IBM Thinkpad X60 excellent quality workmanship and strong business security performance. Thinkpad X60 also provide an alternative high-end aristocracy notebook.