IBM Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC
Mobile Tech Review has a look at the ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC.
Related Posts:Mobile computing users have waited for years for IBM (now Lenovo) to enter the Tablet PC market. IBM waited until the market and technology matured so they could make a strong offering. Three years after the first tablets hit the shelves, we have the ThinkPad X41, their first Windows XP Tablet Edition notebook. Has it been worth the wait? Yes: the machine offers good performance, that ThinkPad look and feel, along with the build quality and software add-ons we’ve come to expect from that line.
This convertible machine, which looks and works like a traditional notebook until you rotate the screen and lay it flat for tablet use has a 1.5 GHz Intel processor, Centrino architecture, 512 megs of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, a biometric fingerprint reader and a 12.1″ XGA display with integrated digitizer and EMR pen. It weighs only 3.5 lbs. and will slip easily into a briefcase or oversized women’s bag. In fact it’s currently one of the lightest convertible tablet PCs. That light weight comes at the cost of an internal optical drive: the tablet edition, like all IBM X series notebooks lacks an internal CD or DVD drive.