Thinkpads Forum

I placed a pre-order for the ThinkPad Tablet with CDW-G yesterday; my account rep told me that their system shows they will have stock very soon and will be shipping next week. I ordered the basic 16GB version (MT-M 1838-22U). I'll post my impressions of it here when I receive the device.

Welcome to the club of inpatient waiters! I have pre-ordered mine in old good Europe here http://www.notebooksandmore.net/product ... 382DG.html. Officially it should be delivered starting September 8th, unofficially it could be a "surprise" starting August 31st.

For now, my CDW-G account rep says that the ETA for my tablet is 15th September. With any luck, it might be a little sooner than that.

fuscob wrote:For now, my CDW-G account rep says that the ETA for my tablet is 15th September. With any luck, it might be a little sooner than that.

Fortunately, it was a lot sooner - the tablet shipped today. I should have it on Monday; I'll be posting my thoughts and impressions next week.

Hmm. I ordered mine direct from Lenovo and expedited it on their side. As of this morning it is still "in process". Hopefully it ships Monday!

Perhaps I should have ordered from CDW

jonLumpkin wrote:Hmm. I ordered mine direct from Lenovo and expedited it on their side. As of this morning it is still "in process". Hopefully it ships Monday!

Perhaps I should have ordered from CDW

CDW is great, and the account rep that I work with is awesome. I got a nice discount on the ThinkPad Tablet; he's also gotten me an X200t in the past for way less than even EPP pricing from Lenovo, and I got eight $99 HP TouchPads early this week thanks to him. Highly recommended

fuscob wrote:I got eight $99 HP TouchPads early this week thanks to him.

How are you liking these Touchpads? I bought my 32GB Touchpad from HP for $149 plus tax and find myself using it a lot -- I am typing this post on it. I bet you will sell at least some of them. How much do you plan on selling them for?

I am glad I bought the 32GB model because it doesn't seem to have an expansion slot.

pianowizard wrote:How are you liking these Touchpads? I bought my 32GB Touchpad from HP for $149 plus tax and find myself using it a lot -- I am typing this post on it. I bet you will sell at least some of them. How much do you plan on selling them for?

I am glad I bought the 32GB model because it doesn't seem to have an expansion slot.

I kept one for myself and sold the rest to friends (no mark-up)...I have heard that people are getting $200+ on eBay for the 16GB model.

I like mine; there is a definite lack of application development for the platform, but I still find it enjoyable to use for web and e-mail and I think webOS is well-designed. I also have Ubuntu running on it, so I can run some Linux applications; take a look at http://forums.precentral.net/webos-deve ... chpad.html if you're interested. It is a little clunky at this stage but it does let you run additional applications and it's fun to play around with.

As we were in the midst of Hurricane Irene, I waited till today to try and order from CDW.

64 GB is no longer in stock.

Any suggestions?

J&R doesn't know when they will have it.
Amazon didn't answer my request for a date to order.

Leaving the USA in less than 2 weeks.

Any suggestions?

Has anyone gotten the tablet?

Thanks,

fuscob wrote:Fortunately, it was a lot sooner - the tablet shipped today. I should have it on Monday; I'll be posting my thoughts and impressions next week.

Man,did you get it?waiting for you first impressions,especially about the touch screen...

fuscob wrote:I like mine; there is a definite lack of application development for the platform, but I still find it enjoyable to use for web and e-mail and I think webOS is well-designed.

Hey, the QuickOffice update just came out today. Make sure you install it, because it allows you to edit/create Word and Excel documents. Without this update, QuickOffice can only read documents. I will be traveling for four days beginning tomorrow and am taking this TouchPad with me to see if it's sufficient for the simple things that I will do on this trip.

anabol wrote:Man,did you get it?waiting for you first impressions,especially about the touch screen...

anabol, couple of the lucky guys in USA have already got the Thinkpad Tablet delivered and are posting their first impressions here http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-sl ... 605/page/3, so far the feedback is good.

If you're willing to go to smaller screens, there's also smartphones to consider as they're similar to tablets with just a smaller display. iPod 4's with Retina displays are $229 new, so perhaps a used one might be in your price range. Even though those displays are small, they have an amazingly high resolution (960x640) -- higher than you'll be able to find in any cheap tablet.

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