mike004 wrote:I'm using Oracle Linux.

Oracle Linux is just a repackaged Redhat Enterprise Linux. Starting with RHEL 6, a PAE-enabled processor is a minimum requirement. It seems like you have to recompile or use a Fedora kernel.

There is no command line option to disable PAE as far as I know. Which distribution are you using? I thought all of them have a PAE and a non-PAE kernel to choose from (Fedora certainly has). Of course you can always compile your kernel, but on your CPU its probably faster to get a pre-built one

Anyone have luck getting the proprietary ATI driver to work on Linux with a Radeon X300 in a modern distro? The proprietary driver dropped X300 support ages ago. You'll have to install an antique kernel and Xorg if you want to use it. I'm pretty sure that the resulting user experience will be far i...

I'll beg to differ: Only switch on "Unknown sources" if you want to install apk files that you download elsewhere. If you only want to use apps from the Android Market then leave unknown sources = off. Every app runs under a separate user account. Apart from competing for CPU time and RAM, they do n...

IbKJM wrote:Hi,
I'm in Ontario Canada and have tried installing my SIM card from my rogers phone into the SIM slot on my tablet. Nothing at all happened.

Let me state the obvious first, did you install a 3G card? Your model is WiFi-only but can probably be upgraded (hence the SIM card slot).

I think that Japan is also CDMA. However the EU GSM still should work on most American networks. 3 G not 4 but good enough if you need the connection. Actually, Japan is perhaps the only place that is more screwed up than the US carrier market - most carriers use a homebrew 2G tech that isn't used ...

Buy a pad in Europe. I bought mine in Germany and it came 3G ready - even had a Vodaphone SIM in it. I should work in USA too on ATT 3G. The European version is GSM only, the US version will be GSM/CDMA so it'll work with Verizon and with Iraq's cell phone network (the only two places on earth usin...

If you don't want to add any bulk then the keyboard folio is definitely not the right choice for you.

my only reservation is the so called trackpoint.. i'm sure they could have gotten a real trackpoint embedded in the keyboard and perhaps lenovo will do so in the next generation.. Lenovo said that there is not enough space for a classic trackpoint, though maybe they can shrink it in a future versio...

7. its tough NOT to cause unwanted actions when resting your palm on the display while writing with the pen.. Pen proximity disables touch input, so if you can train yourself to first bring the pen close to the screen and only then put down your palm it should work. Some note-taking apps implement ...

lexicon wrote:Any specific production batch or model number of this tablets that are 3G upgradeable?

As far as I know all models are 3G upgradeable.

I have a X200 and am considering getting the Thinkpad Slate Tablet, but the main functionality I need is the continued ability to "write/markup" on my PPTs during presentations (and save them into the PPT). Something I can currently do on my X200 since it is running Win 7. It is unclear to me if th...

a sub-2lb tablet that runs Windows 8, has a full-sized USB port and an external video port. This tablet needs to run Windows because I need to install all the programs that I use on the road, including the full Microsoft Office suite. From what has been demoed on //build that tablet probably going ...

Let me start with the obvious... is the Audio power management enabled? E.g. run powertop -> Tunables -> Enable Audio codec power management.

The tablet charges from a normal usb data port, but not very fast. You better switch the screen off, too...

Thinkpad Tablet HW Manual, page 41, http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/0a96158.pdf , shows how easy is to replace (or add if not existent?) the F5521gw WWAN Mini PCIe card Easy is perhaps a bit of an euphemism considering just how much you have to disassemble to get to the c...

Windows XP ran normally on my T42 when it had even 512mb RAM,of course after upgrade to 1gb made things better...I worry much more about the CPU...if it will be an Atom based tablet,it will be a fail( Current windows versions doesn't run on anything but x86 until at least Fall 2012. That limits the...

ausmike wrote:I got email from NEWEGG about the Lenovo tablet (130422U) on SALE with $50 gift card!!!

Not the Thinkpad Tablet. Still might be worth a consideration if you don't want/need the pen and physical keyboard/trackpoint...

Realistically, I think you can expect it to be delivered shortly after you come back from your trip But we can always hope...

chenxiaolong wrote:kernel 3.0 from http://koji.fedoraproject.org which fixes all the EFI problems.

Can you reboot (without extra kernel command line parameters)? This was the last major outstanding issue a month ago.

The 170W adapter for the W520 only fits into the W520, but the 60W/90W thinkpad ac adapters fit into the W520.

Any ac adapter with <=90W can only be used to change the W520 while it is off/hibernated/standby.

I would recommend you give k-9 mail from the android market a try. Its one of the most full-featured email clients and supports multiple email accounts very well.

YW-Slayer wrote:If it had quad-core, I would pre-order this[...]

Why stop there? I want a 16-CPU cluster in my tablet with a petabyte storage array!

Prices from the Lenovo press release http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1468 : The 16GB ThinkPad Tablet is priced at $479 without the digitizer pen, and at $509 including the digitizer pen, for Wi-Fi models. The 32GB ThinkPad Tablet (Wi-Fi model) with digitizer pen is $589. There ...

Intel has by far the best driver support. They are actively developing linux wifi drivers. Will work out of the box as long as your hardware is older than the linux distribution you are using. Broadcom is the worst, avoid at all cost. Atheros only relatively recently started to release open-source d...

When I try to install (using the DVD, 64 bit) it hangs when it boots to the installer. I've also had problems with Ubuntu, which also won't boot. What's the deal? Fedora is supposed to support EFI since 11. Am I just missing something? There are bugs in essentially all EFI implementations to date, ...

One of the Lenovo videos shows clearly a full-sized USB connector that is used to dock the tablet to the folio. So no mysteries here. Personally, I find that when using three battery-operated devices (tablet, keyboard, mouse) at the same time then at least one set of batteries is always about to giv...

You need touch input and good ARM support if you want a tablet, and Windows can do neither. If you want a hard-to-use UMPC with a kludgy pen to simulate mouse clicks you could have bought one years ago ;-P In fact, there is no OS out there at all that provides both excellent tablet and desktop usabi...

Can anyone confirm if the keyboard will dock with the slate in portrait mode, or did Lenovo blow it? From the video the thinkpad android tablet almost certainly will only connect in landscape mode with the keyboard. In portrait mode it would be only 800 pixels wide, what are you going to do with th...

You can't compare high-gamut displays by looking at photos unless your camera, image file format, and the final monitor all have larger coverage than the displays you are trying to compare. Which essentially means that photos are useless to compare quality displays. Also, for all the "colors are ove...