Short answer: NO Long answer: its bloated, confusing, slow compared to XP, consumes to much battery power, impossible to find things in(over complicated), [censored] driver support for thinkpads, and you gotta pay for it. XP for me, until they refine it somemore. You shouldnt tac on too many feature...

readyboost is a waste of time, marketed solely to people who dont know anything about computers. it is slow, and is a waste of flash memory. Flash memory also has a read/write limit, and using flash as readyboost continually will kill it eventually. Did I mention its slow? oh yea, flash any way you ...

My X60s with vista gets about 4 hours of battery life, with or without aeroglass. On XP the computer gets close to 8. Yesterday I had jury duty and with xp I watched 2 movies and browsed the net the whole time I was there and when I left I still had power left. Vista is also slow as hell compared to...

Well this 1.11 bios was probably pulled becaue it leaves issues unhandled. Example. my laptop does not continue chargin the battery after returning from standby or hibernation. I have 1.11 and I cannot reproduce that problem. But indeed it's disconcerting to be running 1.11 and have seen it withdra...

Well this 1.11 bios was probably pulled becaue it leaves issues unhandled. Example. my laptop does not continue chargin the battery after returning from standby or hibernation. I am running 1.11 and this problem exists. I think im going to downgrade to 1.10. At least ill know the difference between ...

Gas guage is def more accurate and the computer is consuming less.

Idling at 10w with brightness at 1 bar.

Battery life has definetley improved.

I'm seeing really good wattages after a cold boot...but if I resume from standby or hibernation, I get high idle wattages similar to previous power hungry BIOS's. Anyone with similar experiences? First question: how are you guys determining the wattage consumption of the processor. As for your issu...

Do all of your X60's have screen flex? If the screen is open 90 degrees and you hold it by the top corners and flex it does it have a lot of play in it? Also I noticed that when the notebook is closed it doesnt close completely. There is about a 1mm or so gap on each side of the machine. So when you...

All the memory is user-accessible/ubgradable. There are 2 slots under the removable panel on the bottom. I think that is one of the best qualities of the X60 line. So many companies either solder the ram to the board(for a saving of what 10 cents and about 2mm of space by not using a socket) or sho...

surg wrote:Why would anyone prefer Vista?
Just curious.

Why did people go to XP from 2000, or 2000 from ME/98?

I got burned useing cheap ram in my sager. It would blue screen at random times and it took forever for me to figure out what was causeing the errors. So imo its worth buying from a company with a rep for quality. memmory is never flawless, doesnt mattery where you get it. I ordered a matched et of...

Are you running max performance in your power manegment. That could be the reason.

Another reason may be a faulty battery. go look up the battery info in the power manager.

What are you smoking that pocessed you to ask this question?

I bet the next question your going to ask is what the weight distribution of the laptop is at every corner as though you will sit on it and auto cross it.

@Saml01 Did you notice shortened battery life compared to 1.04? Never used 1.04 so I couldnt tell you. I guess ill try it out one day. Hell since I got the computer its been plugged into the wall. School starts on sept 5th. The first official day ill use it unplugged and we'll see. Better to get a ...

i wonder if this will affect the power consumption of the cpu. i don't think i am willing to give up 30min of battery life for few sec improvement in performance. The more a cpu works the more power it will consume. Simple as that. I wouldnt xxxx with this unofficial fix anyway. Mod edit: Expletive...

Microsoft has not officially issued the Hot Fix as something that needs to be loaded in a mass production setup, Also the performance differences with the Hot Fix installed or not does not show large differences. Therefore we do not recommend installing unless it is used to try and troubleshoot any...

Use it till you love it.

I had a powerbook with the ambient light control. HOLY FREAKING WOW WHAT A RETARDED FEATURE.

I wanted to slam my laptop against the wall everytime it did that till I found the option to turn it off.

You can put it in the bag with suspend. if the system does overheat it will shut down, also the heat would have to be stupidley high for your harddrive to die. Your bag will catch on fire first.

Personally I would hibernate. But suspending if thats what you want to do will not cause any damage.

Ok first thing is first, I dont care if you hate me after this.

USE MORE PERIODS AND LEARN HOW TO MAKE PARAGRAPHS


Otherwise yes, you can use any harddrive.

Vazine wrote:I'm using bios 1.04 now because I want the better battery life. I have noticed more fan use and would also like to know if there has been an improvement from 1.06 to 1.09 to increase battery life.

Also, does it put more wear on your computer to run 1.04 or something?

No extra wear.

I use 1.09

smvp6459 wrote:I was saying it would be a bad idea to insulate the palmrest area without doing any other re-design to channel heat away from the area.

Get a peice of heatsheilding they use on turboed cars and you are cherry.

dannyp wrote:let's all hold forever's hand. all these short indefinite replies are pretty useless to people trying to help.

ask real questions and feedback from what we've said already.

I dun wanna hold his hand, he has cooties

I apologize I just thought there was a solution that didn't seem as ghetto as this. I was just worried about my adapter pumping bad voltage to my battery. Your adapater is pretty sophisticated dont you worry. With its capacitors and transformers it would be highly unlikely bad voltage would get to ...

Going to contribute again.

I have been using my X60s for 3 days or so, for extended periods of time trying to get acclimated to the keyboard and I havent had the fan turn on for me once.

its dead quiet, I can even sleep with the computer on and that says a lot. I am a very very very light sleeper.

Just uninstall the IDE drivers like he says, shut down the computer and throw the harddrive in the other system. Dont bother changing the driver to a standard one, once it boots in the new system it will auto detect.

Still though a full format is a much much better solution.

Try going to windows display settings, selecting each of the screens and setting their resolutions. Also why would you want your laptop LCD to run at a lower resolution when both screens are connected? Let the laptop stay native and just have your external screen at whatever resolution you want. Thi...

When I go to the Lenovo website ( http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/x-series/index.html ) it shows only one X60 and one X60s model, then you click on the "Customize" button to determine what you want in say your X60s. I see people posting here saying I have model # so and so, and others s...

You need something like this: http://i3.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/e4/12/bd_2.JPG I bought one in Chinatown for 50 cents, used it in Europe and my ThinkPad was not damaged. Exactly what I was saying. When I was in barcelona, I stayed at a hotel that provided those things to their guest for free. It was co...