The latest Lenovo ThinkPad X61 tablet PC looks just like it’s predecessors with a plain and clean design that includes the identical black matte casing. It’s where the similarities end. With improved battery life, it has an 8-cell Li-on battery, a larger harddisk and faster processing speed the latest Lenovo Thinkpad X61 is an amazing tablet all around.
It’s light-weight (3.8 lbs) measuring in at 10.8” x 9.6” & just over an inch thick, so it goes nearly unnoticed in a notebook bag! The rotating monitor is attached by a small hinge, but works smoothly with little or no wobble showing off the 12.1” MultiView/MultiTouch XGA screen.
The Lenovo Thinkpad X61 tablet system facilities Wacom active pen technology so you can choose between pen & finger input along with automatic screen orientation as soon as you physically adjust the viewing position. The touch pen is almost the size of a standard pen, and, has an eraser! Simply flip the tool around and erase like in real life and your marks are removed!
Many touch screen users make a complaint regarding a washed out quality while viewing colors, this tablet however shows no indications of that usual complaint. It additionally isn’t grainy at all (one more frequent complaint with touch screens).
Running off an Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 1.6GHz processor, a good sized 100 GB hard drive and 2 gigabyte DDR2 RAM this tiny tablet packs plenty of power. It comes ready to operate with Windows Vista Ultimate, perfect for business travel, students or individual home use.