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Lenovo's X60 Thinkpad: A perfect balance of tablet portability, notebook functionality?

Lenovo's X60 Thinkpad: A perfect balance of tablet portability, notebook functionality?Lenovo's X60 ThinkpadI’d probably be much happier with a Treo 700w or the Smartphone-based, non-touchscreen, Motorola Q.But what really makes the MDA suck as a phone is the dialing application. In Portrait mode the dialing keypad takes up maybe 1/3...

Tags: Model Driven Architecture, Pocket PC, Tablets, Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Handhelds, Pocket IE, Lenovo X60 Thinkpad, Lenovo X60, Lenovo Group Ltd., phone, model-driven architecture, notebook, tablet

Discussion threads 2007-09-10

Lenovo X60 Tablet PC on the road

Lenovo X60 Tablet PC on the roadIt's such a kind newsThanks for the valuable update on lenova as I'm strongly considering getting a tablet PC (either the new ASUS or X60 from Lenovo) for my dad. He is not the most technically inclined person, and he also frustrates rather easily....

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, PC, tablet, Lenovo X60, Microsoft Office, dad, tablet PC, Lenovo Group Ltd.

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

First impressions: Lenovo X60 Tablet PC

Ive had the Lenovo X60 Tablet PC for about a week now and the system is configured for my trip to Seattle for the Microsoft Global MVP Summit next week after a quick weekend in Phoenix to see some spring training baseball and an Eric Clapton show. Im happy to...

Tags: Hardware, Microsoft Office, Mobility, Productivity, Tablet PCs, Vista, Windows

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Lenovo X60 Tablet PC road test begins

Lenovo X60 Tablet PC road test beginsGood Luck!I've been using Vista Ultimate on a Toshiba R25-S3503 that I upgraded to 2GB of RAM, and I'll be interested in hearing what you think of Vista on the X60. I thought about the X60, I like the battery life, but I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Tablets, PC, Anagram, tablet PC, Lenovo X60, Microsoft Windows Vista, Toshiba Corp., M205, laptop computer, hibernation, Intel Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd., Lenovo X60 Tablet PC road test

Discussion threads 2007-02-28

Lenovo's X60 Thinkpad: A perfect balance of tablet portability, notebook functionality?

Lenovo's X60 Thinkpad: A perfect balance of tablet portability, notebook functionality?Lenovo X60I like my X60, BUTa) had to spend too much time removing all that "helpful" security software and updating software. Still haven't gotten rid of some of it. I prefer a blank slate.b) I don't understand the comments on...

Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Keyboards, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo X60, tablet, notebook, battery, keyboard, Lenovo Group Ltd.

Discussion threads 2006-11-17

Lenovo's X60 Thinkpad: A perfect balance of tablet portability, notebook functionality?

Ever since the very first Thinkpad (I believe it was the 700c), Ive relied on the sleek black portables with the slightly rubberized black finish to get my job done. Over the years, I have strayed a few times. An HP Omnibook here. A Sony Vaio there. A brief...

Tags: X60 Thinkpad Tablet:The Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet, tablet, battery, Wired &, Wireless, Personal Technology, Mobile, General

Blog posts 2006-11-15

Lenovo's X60 Thinkpad: A perfect balance of tablet portability, notebook functionality?

Ever since the very first Thinkpad (I believe it was the 700c), Ive relied on the sleek black portables with the slightly rubberized black finish to get my job done. Over the years, I have strayed a few times. An HP Omnibook here. A Sony Vaio there. A brief...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, X60 Thinkpad Tablet:The Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet, battery, tablet

Blog posts 2006-11-15

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Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space

Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Sony's Centrino 2 laptop lineup

Details of Sony's new laptops have been trickling out for several weeks, but Sony held off on an official announcement to coincide with Intel's Centrino 2 launch this week. Sony introduced four new VAIO lines ranging from the 3-pound Z-series ultraportable with a 13.1-inch display to the...

Tags: Sony Corp., IBM zSeries, Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Intel Centrino, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., SP1, SR Series, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Apple vs. Psystar complaint excerpts: 'Invaluable good is being eroded'

Apple vs. Psystar complaint excerpts: 'Invaluable good is being eroded'Apple vs. Psystar complaint excerpts: 'Invaluable good is being eroded'Despite all this I'm still hoping for Psystar FTW! Low cost OS X machines could do a lot of good. Apple doesn't see the potential here to raise more revenue...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, App£e

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Google's iPhone app is really good

Google's iPhone app is really goodOMG! How many iPhone stories can ZDNet pump out in 36 hours???C'mon ZDNet this is ridiculous...how many more iPhone / Apple stories are you going to bombard us with??????Then stop reading them!What's so difficult about that concept? There seem to be a lot of things...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., Microsoft strategy, Apple iPhone, Donnieboy, Google iPhone app, people like, Google iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-12

What's next for the MacBook Air?

Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...

Tags: Processor, Disk, MBA, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Solid State Disk, Intel Corp., MLC, Engineering, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-07

How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemons

In a previous article I talked about some of the ways Microsoft might be able to learn from its mistakes with Windows Vista and deliver a winner with Windows 7. I also hit pretty close to home with a number of readers when I talked about the real world problems...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool

Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors coolCustomer use patterns...Translated, "We didn't plan for customers to actually turn their notebooks on."What a crock!I think this article......uses "impacted" far too many times. The correct word is "affected".RE: Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Notebooks, Processors, processor, NVidia Corp., chip, notebook, defective notebook chip, Offers driver, notebook chip

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

A world ruled by Apple

Tributes to Bill Gates littered the blogosphere on Friday for obvious reason, as it was Bill Gates' last day as a full-time employee at the company he co-founded. This, predictably, rubbed certain people the wrong way, as the success of Bill Gates represents to some the "failure" of their preferred...

Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Bill Gates, Hardware, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law

Every weekend I return home from traveling the country working at the 10,000 foot level of enterprise architecture for Fortune 500 customers, there is at least a fifty percent chance that I may be called upon to do some in the trenches desktop support work. Such drudgery...

Tags: AOL Instant Messenger, America Online Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, AOL Instant Messenger Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Instant Messaging, Web Site Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law.

Every weekend I return home from traveling the country working at the 10,000 foot level of enterprise architecture for Fortune 500 customers, there is at least a fifty percent chance that I may be called upon to do some in the trenches desktop support work. Such drudgery...

Tags: AOL Instant Messenger, America Online Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, AOL Instant Messenger Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Instant Messaging, Web Site Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law.

Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law.Truth must be toldYou have to be honest with her. Just tell her the truth and she will understand. It might take a longer time but once she knows how to use a PC I bet you she will get the point.Try this:The computer is fine....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Windows Software, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-06-30