Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC Review

[ryengineer]

Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC Review is up. I see good things.

The X61 has improved in the performance department compared to the X60, it beat the X60 on all of the benchmarking tests. The Core 2 Duo L7500 1.6GHz processor doesn't have any problems running multiple applications at the same time...

The X61 has great battery life. When I compared it to my Asus R1, I was in love. The X61 lasted about an hour and a half longer than the Asus R1 just on the standard default settings. I was getting about 5 hours on the standard default setting, which has no power saving adjustments. When I went into the Power Manager settings where I could change the battery settings like performance, battery life and screen brightness, I was getting up to 7 hours. Now that is what I call mobile computing. Do keep in mind the X61 Tablet as tested came with the larger 8-cell battery.

[fongj]

Finally, at least a kinda real review (not just "I got an X61t in my possession... its fast! here are the specs and prices... [no new info given]). The GBM team also has some interesting tidbits about how the X61t experience is.

It doesn't look like the infared port was replaced with anything (e.g. a usb slot, line-in for audio, etc...). Why did they take it out and just leave an empty space on the chassis/case?