The wireless N-speed difference is only usable inside your intranet, e.g. between your computer and router etc. as far as the other devices are N-capable. - For an internet DSL wlan connection speed the N-card won't give you any advantages, beside maybe some longer wireless distance connections, as ...

Well, the UltraLight panel is visible more luminant and so has some reserves when used in brighter daylight locations. Other than that and a little bit of a weight saving, there aren't any differences among the display quality. Note that the UltraLight panels are only available in specific X61s mode...

Well, a X61s TMD UltraLight panel isn't detectable via the device manager etc. You can only get maybe a hint about it if you use some sort of harware system information software (Everest, Linux/Knoppix boot CDs which show up the hardware configs etc.). Then you might get some spare infos about the p...

I know and it's pretty much the same like with advertized battery runtime specs and so on. - However, many of the used panels could be still brighter if Lenovo would drive their backlights with slightly more voltage, but they usually don't drive them with this much voltage in order to reach overall ...

They didn't named exactly which XGA panel or model it was and since they didn't talked about any multitouch capabilities, but named a price of 2800 Euro, I think it's the usual by Lenovo with 155 nits advertized X61T model. Some other vendors have assembled more contrast rich and luminant panels int...

Thanks for the reply vkyr. It just happened again and i took a picture. It was sitting in my lap, i closed the screen and re-opened it and this is what it looks like: http://fadedlinux.com/broken.jpg System is completely unresponsive and requires a hard shutdown every time this happens. This is und...

Apropos, where we previously talked about better TFT panels, brightness, matt vs. glare etc. Here is the visable difference between matt and glare panels under the same lighting consitions inside a conference room: (glare) ---> http://www.heise.de/bilder/78425/1/1 (matt) ---> http://www.heise.de/bil...

Sounds like an standby problem with the GPU driver etc. or the display cable has/gets some loose connection etc. when the display lid is closed. Most notebooks under Vista - namely their display drivers - have problems when returning from a standby mode, to setup again the correct display resolution...

You should first make sure that the Dell D430 really supports the DVI-output of the accompanied dockingstation. AFAI remember this was not the case for previous D4xx models via the dock. Here is a review of the previous D420 model: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitude-D420-Notebook.3435...

... That surely will not fit the current X61 models, though -- and that was the point: there are no 12.1" (4:3) AFFS panels available on the market, bar the tablet panels. That info was first of all meant as a forecast for the possible future, ...let's say for a widescreen X-series model with a pos...

Related to the general glare vs. matt panel debate, I'am personally also biased and would clearly vote always for good quality matt panels in favour of any glare panels. In the glare panel segment I only know a few panels, which I would rate to have really better surface coatings, color quality and ...

Boe Hydis in march 07 started to produce a 12,1" widescreen TFT-display HV121XWX5 with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels in mass. This panel is an AFFS panel with LED backlighting. When just using 2.64 W the LED backlighting of the panel is said to have a luminance of 220cd/m² (nits). The viewing angl...

Well, maybe I should add, that most other vendors and competitors also suffer from poor TN-panels in their notebooks. It's generally a common problem nowadays to get something better than a TN-panel for notebook LCDs. The majority of vendors goes with glare widescreen panels in their notebooks (even...

Such pricings sound somehow familiar to me and I do not live in asia, where almost all notebook equipment is originated/manufactured from.

Here is a list of prices for different X61/X61s/X61T models for the german market... http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/?fs=thinkpad+x61&x=0&y=0&in= ...every actual X-series notebook or tablet which is slightly better equipped costs over ~ €2000.-, a X61T with SXGA+ panel starts at around €2400, a X...

Well, they are all TFT screens no matter if in the 12", 13.3", 14" or 15" range. The differences lay in suppliers panel quality and the overall availability in mass production for specific panel sizes of the market. Further it plays an important role of what type a panel is, so if it is a TN, AFFS/I...

BTW, the X61s model: UK427xx - 7669-27G doesn't have an UltraLight panel.

European X61s 1.4 GHz models with the UltraLight panel are...

--> ThinkPad X61s UK364xx - 766664G


and X61s 1.6 GHz models with the UltraLight panel are...

--> ThinkPad X61s UK383xx - 766683G

Yia sou, it depends on the individual lighting conditions where you use the notebook. The X60s/X61s with 12.1" UltraLight TFT-panels offer visibly more luminance when compared with the 12.1" standard panels. So the UltraLight panel would in theory be better usable outsides in shadow places under the...

I've forgotten to mention, that in germany you have the right to get your money fully back by law , after 2 or 3 times of a fruitless repair. So if some vendor or dealer isn't able to fix the hardware problem on warranty after 2 times, it's your decision to return the hardware and get your money ful...

5 times? - Well some of my buddys here in germany who use Dell notebooks got new ones from Dell just after two repairs. One of my friends who had one of these 15" Inspirons wasn't happy with the TFT display panel light distribution etc., Dell service changed him the panels 2 or 3 times for try outs ...

See CD Tray Pal and a bunch of other tools like that...

http://www.e-systems.ro/cdtraypal.htm

...for HDDs things like Eject USB disks...

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/usbeject.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/us ... t_demo.zip

Above I wanted to show first of all the big price differences between the X-series and those Dells for some countries. On the US market I believe there isn't such a big difference in the pricings than in europe. Related to the X-series panels only the X61 Tablets have really good TFT panels. - The X...

Here is my vote for the Dell related to Lenovo price politics on european markets... - ThinkPad X61s UK383GE, C2D L7500 1GB 80GB VBThinkPad X61s Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 processor (1.60GHz) 1GB 80GB 12,1 1024×768 XGA, GBIT WLAN BT FPR, no opt.drv 3 years send-in VB, price €2215 till €2425,03 —> that’s...

Thinkpads are generally by far overprized in europe, if compared with the US market. A Thinkpad X61s UL UK383GE for example costs ~2100 EUR in germany, but only ~1300 US$ in the USA (...you can buy two of them on the US market for the european price). The only difference here would be, that in europ...

...is it a matter of simply sliding the drive into the enclosure and everything is ready for use? is there any soldering or other assembly required? in politicorific's link to the case, it looks like there are some extra bits in one of the pics. what about drivers & software for burning DVD's etc? ...

For mobile portability reasons I some months ago needed some sort of light-weight to carry around external DVD-burner. I looked around for external 5.25" slim-line cases on the market and then decided for a slightly greater flexibility to take a compact case which offers USB, FireWire and headphone ...

Acronis TrueImage when first time used asks the user if hewant's to create a boot disc. But there is also a menu option for creating boot disks whenever the user want's to do so. My personal experiences with TI are that it is a very good and easy to use software imager. I prefer it over Ghost and ot...

Well, as you for sure already know, you have to configure the boot order in the BIOS first. So you usually press F1 when the Thinkpad is starting and change the boot order to the DVD. However note that I personally never used an X6 Ultrabase and thus can't tell you if there is maybe a different proc...

The Tabook says for the X61Tablet... - with 4-cell: starting at 3.77 lb (1.71kg) - with 8-cell: starting at 4.25 lb (1.93kg) ...however I don't know if these printed values are always absolute correct or not. - But when I compared both, an X60s and X61T, by holding each in one hand, the tablet was n...

It's not an easy task to find and get all the relevant technical datas for such a LCD upgrade job, as is the panel/inverter exchange job itself. - Especially if a notebook is not right out of the box specified for any higher res panels by the vendor. In other words, for the X6x-series it's not like ...