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GpsPasSion wrote:Ah so Windows 7 might be preferable to XP then? How do you find your X61 tablet with a clean restore of Vista Business?

I just got this X61t, and it was a fresh restore. I went to the Thinkpad System update, and selected everything it found.....which was 430MB of updates, basically an entire CD-ROM worth.

Used it for several hours and had the touchpen crash....the touchpoint and keyboard still worked. So next is Windows 7. I will do an upgrade attempt of the existing Vista to Window7....I already know that I can do it with a clean install but I want to keep the accessories and programs that Lenovo put on the X61. A program that only consumes resources when its fired up, and is not autostarted in any way....is not slowing anything down....so why not try to keep em.

Here are some links to others who have gone Win7 for the X61T....I am on the trailing edge.

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/lenovo- ... -x61t.html

Levovo's guide to the procedures which lists the X61T for Window7 install.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-74108

I let you know if all goes well or not.

Thanks, did you get your tablet on eBay too? Mine is coming in tomorrow.

Thanks for the links, based on the Lenovo guide it seems they are offering Win7 disks, were you able to order one ?

GpsPasSion wrote: based on the Lenovo guide it seems they are offering Win7 disks, were you able to order one ?

I do not believe there are any Win7 restore disks for the X60-1 Tablet line. The conversion to Win7 is going better than expected, Win7 is going to be the fastest of XP Vista and 7, that is already clear. Plus the upgrades to the pen system is worth the effort. I am going to create a new thread for it. How to go from Vista live, or a Vista Restore to Win 7...

Here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=93944

Finishing off the topics here. A "Clean install" is a tool for an end. The end result is a streamlined machine running the least processes, thus consuming the least resources. What Lenovo put on their restore disks is pretty much all business. Nothing really offensive besides Norton which is a huge resources draw on every aspect of the PC, and online.

A clean install of an off the shelf XP will add lots of processes that are not required. Services that can just be disabled and stopped from residing in memory. TuneXP 1.5 automates some advanced tweaks that really give a snap to startup and shutdown, and general responsiveness.

As far as performance
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009 ... ablet.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009 ... ows-7.aspx

So far mine looks like this guys....and I am not done
http://www.technologyquestions.com/tech ... c-wow.html Going to a 2005 solution is missing out on tons of improvement seen in 7

I am documenting what I am doing here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=93944

Joined you in that other topic, thanks for starting it.

Based on your links above it does make sense to go to Windows 7 versus Windows XP if you're going to use the tablet features a lot. I'm guessing that in my case it will be rather occasional, so I wonder if that brings Windows XP back in contention. Biggest problem might be to get a hold of the XP restore discs at this point...A call to Lenovo when my Tablet arrives should settle that