I connected my x60s to a Samsung 40" 4095DX HDTV via VGA port. The system automatically switched to 1920x1080 wide screen mode. Very impressive! The video performance felt sluggish though. However, I am happy with this monsterous resolution from this small laptop.

I just had the same poblem yesterday. At first I ran Rescue & Restore from the hidden partition (pressed the ThinkVantage button when I turned on the laptop) but it couldn't see the harddisk. Finally what I did was boot up with the windows setup cd and go to recovery console and from there run 'chkd...

I am out of luck either. Does anyone ever win something from the game? It seems none gets anything so far.

I usually take the battery out while on AC. However, there are 3 disadvantages; 1) if power is out, the X60 turns off. 2) the bottom of x60 is exposed. not sure if it's vulnerable to dust and rust. 3) x60 does not have rubber leg on the bottom right! It's on the battery itself which means that witho...

This is an interesting question. I have a plan to do so too. I suppose you need to buy a harddisk adapter so that u can put the old one into the ultrabay.

I don't have any problem whatsover with my x6 base. It works as it should and I'm happy.

I have had a problem with T&L feature of the Age of Empires III game. My X60's Intel 950 does not support it and the performance of the sea battle was horrible. I didn't expect a strategy game to require advanced video feature that my 1-month old X60 does not have.

Mine is 4:30 hours with wireless on, 6 or 7 (max) brightness, light web surfing, word processing and a background p2p. My battery is 8-cell extended battery. Its spec life is up to 7.8 hours.

Please share yours.

I could point you in the direction of a cheap ACER laptop as well if you like.. ;) Heheh, No, thank you. I have owned 5 laptops in my life and all of them are thinkpads. Unless Lenovo screws up with Thinkpad, my future laptop will be it. Anyway, even though I used the cardbus32, I think my Kingston...

No stuck-on or dead pixels found yet (finger crossed) on my X60.

I use a small free utility, SpeedswitchXP (google for URL). It has a tray icon that you can choose which power scheme you want to use. Very easy to change from max battery, max performance, dynamic switching or battery optimized. Hope this help.

Thank you, NJ_IT. I never thought of this before. The 90w seems to be a better choice indeed.

I don't have this problem. The X60 firmly snapped into the base. I guess your problem occurs when it's not fully snapped so that the power couldn't get through the unit.

I bought an x60 with x6 ultrabase. Now I want to buy a spare power adapter. The x60 options in tabook.pdf said there are 2 power adpaters; 65w and 90w. Is there any case where I should buy the 90w?

The current 65w that came with my x60 works well with my system.

Different flash memory devices have different speeds. There is a considerable difference in speeds. Check the specs. I guess the bottleneck is also at the bus controller. My Kingston compact flash is fast but my pcmcia card adapter is slow. Be sure that you have no bottleneck in any of this. The de...

I bought a 1GB Patriot DDR2 667Mhz PC5300 from newegg.com for about $100 and installed it to my 512MB X60 without any problem. Now I turned off the swap space and noticed a speed boost. I really recommend those who buy a new X60 to buy an extra memory. When I first used mine, windows plus IBM add-on...

I personally don't use trackpad. My previous T41 has both the stick and the pad. I guess spent <1% of my time using it. So I'm perfectly happy with the X60. The single sign on from the fingerprint reader is really cool. No longer do I have to type the power on password, harddisk password, windows lo...

I'm glad these photos are useful. sco1984, the X60 *comes* with an RJ11 jack. It is on the right side next to the power in jack. Click the photo below to see my note of the location in the picture. http://static.flickr.com/55/120479114_b062b428d5.jpg I have used the X60 for a couple of days. It is r...

An update. I got the SD card this evening. After a few tries, the x60 builtin card reader shows double transfer rate (2 MB/sec) compared to CF PCMICA adapter card. But it's still very slow (15x slower) then the internal harddisk. So it cannot be used for any performance improvement.

I should have asked this question *before* I bought the pcmcia adapter. This one sucks, it takes 100% cpu while slowly transferring files. (Luckily it took 100% of one core, I still had another core to do other things. In my previous T41, I couldn't do anything while copying photos.) I tested the CF...

I got the 1706-8DU unit yesterday. I guess some people might want to see what the X60 and the ultrabase look like. I uploaded the album and wrote some descriptions in Flickr. Hope it is useful.

OK, it's now on my office table. It sits next to my 2 years old T41. Ordered: 3/23/2006 Shipped: 3/28/2006 Delivered: 3/30/2006 The 1-week end-to-end order is not bad, not bad at all. Mac I came from T-series (T20 and T41) and took the plunge to order my 1st X60 (1706-8DU) yesterday (3/23/2006). The...

rexy, what was your original ram? Did you put 1x2GB ram, not 2x1GB ram right? May I ask where you bought the ram from?

I am going to buy an extra 1GB ram for my 512MB X60. However, I heard that I should install the same amount of ram in pair. So I am wondering if 1GB will work with 512MB system.

I guess Lenovo wants to ship the products as many as possible to bring in revenues for this quarter. After 5 days from my order, the product was shipped! However, it got stuck at the export office in Shanghai. 'FORMAL EXPORT ENTRY REQUIRES ADDITIONAL CUSTOMS CLEARANCE PROCESSING TIME AT EXPORT LOCAT...

Thanks, nickpoore and christopher_wolf. I'm gonna upgrade my soon-to-be-arrived 512mb x60 with one extra gb. Hope it will not need a swap file. The reason I ask is because I have an sd card and thought it would help increase the performance if I use it. But I am not sure from technical point of view...

I got a delivery email from lenovodirect last Saturday. But the order status link in the email pointed to a different customer id! This must be a pre-April fool joke and it's not funny. My estimated shipping status has changed to one day later (from original 4/20/2006) every day, now it's 4/24/2006....

Since X4x/X60 have an SD card slot, can we use an SD card, say 512MB or 1GB as a windows swap drive instead of harddisk? Does anybody try it before? Will it speed up Windows?

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Look nice. thank you.

I came from T-series (T20 and T41) and took the plunge to order my 1st X60 (1706-8DU) yesterday (3/23/2006). The expected shipment is 4/20/2006. I'll wait and see.

Does anybody switch from T to X series? Are you happy with the smaller form factor?