Thursday, July 26, 2012

Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet Review

There is little to distinguish from other tablets, X220 black, plastic coated Lenovo ThinkPad family member not only to twist and bend the hinge, which allows the lid to rotate 180 degrees and then the screen facing out, in so you can make, and have a touch. Such as the Lenovo X220, a magnesium alloy frame and is reinforced to withstand high humidity, shock, vibration and extreme temperatures. Touch screen X220 Tablet is scratch resistant treatment of Infinity Glass, which acts as a protective layer on the screen real, but this extra precaution, the more dazzling. The display is also designed for visibility inside and out, adjustable brightness to 300 nits and sharp 1366 x 768 (720p HD).
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet
Weight 4.15 pounds, the ThinkPad X220 Tablet Lenovo is lighter than the Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 £ 5 (multitouch) ($ 1.859 Direct, 3.5 stars), but heavier than the HP EliteBook 2740p 3.9 pounds ($ 1,880 direct , 3.5 stars). The X220 Tablet will not be as comfortable to wear than the IPAD 1.33 Book two, especially if you are a frequent user of public transport. For the most part, you need to sit comfortably hold the X220 tablet mode. Of course, the convertible tablets are heavy with keyboards and equipment, while the tablets as Windows 1.9 lbs Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 ($ 849 direct, 4 stars) have only one screen and Atom, a featherweight.

The only visible difference between the X220 tablet laptop and its variant, except the twist and fold hinge, and the battery protruding an odd tab extends from the upper right side of the screen. The tab extends from the top of the screen becomes a comfortable grip and a convenient handle when you return to the screen to its original orientation. The battery goes bizarre curved design for ergonomic dream, giving a comfortable grip to keep the laptop in one hand and fits easily in the crook of an elbow, a delicacy, like its predecessor, the ThinkPad X200 Tablet ( multitouch) ($ 2,000 Direct, 4 stars), did not. Compared to other convertible tablets, which keeps the square form factor from the laptop, it is a significant improvement. Physical buttons on the frame of the screen allow you to drive off ThinkPad and manually rotate the screen orientation, and a dedicated Ctrl-Alt-Delete will save your bacon if Windows ever stands.

The touchscreen is multitouch capable, you can save up to five fingers at once. Lenovo comes with the Windows 7 Touch Pack, which gives you an onscreen keyboard and handwriting recognition in Windows. The keyboard on the screen is all very well in landscape orientation, but orientation in portrait mode, which is preferred because of the ThinkPad is an ergonomic keyboard is too small for comfortable use. In these cases, you want to use the included digital pen to enjoy writing for Windows. The stylus is also useful for a more accurate cursor control.

The physical keyboard ThinkPad X220 Tablet is a copy of the industry, providing one of the typing experience more comfortable of any laptop. It is also splash-proof, designed to survive up to 4 ounces of liquid poured directly on the keyboard. Besides the touch screen, also has two pointing devices: Lenovo stick red and a redesigned touchpad, incorporating a second pair of mouse buttons on the touch screen. The touchpad is also compatible with the same gesture controls on the touch screen, including Lenovo SimpleTap own user interface.
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet

Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet
Characteristic

Lenovo touch enhances the functionality of Windows with its own touch interface called SimpleTap. When activated, it provides a touch-friendly, tile-based interface controls the screen with different settings, the speaker volume, screen brightness, and integrated webcam. Tiles can be added and assigned to launch programs, open certain Web pages, or access to selected files. Although basic in concept, Lenovo has SimpleTap extremely flexible, so you can personalize your experience tablet to get the most out of it. Many other pills have tried to add a new layer interface for Windows, but Lenovo is one of the best we have seen because of its simplicity.

SimpleTap addition, Lenovo ThinkPad X220 packed to the brim with their own exclusive ThinkVantage tools, ranging from power management for data recovery tools for screen reading. Lenovo has also made numerous tweaks behind the scenes to deliver faster boot times, smoother interfaces, and improving overall performance within 2.0 Lenovo Enhanced Experience. In addition to these utilities and tweaks of the system, preloaded, the only software you find on the ThinkPad, Microsoft Office 2010 Starter, a 30-day trial of Norton Internet Security, and Skype.

When the smaller 10-inch tablets provide only a minimum of ports and connectors, the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet is actually extended offers extras like HD 720p resolution webcam and Skype offers video chat, DisplayPort for video and audio output, and Bluetooth 3.0. 320GB 7200 rpm hard drive has twice the storage capacity of its predecessor, and is much larger than the drive can be found in the HP EliteBook 2740p (250GB) and the Fujitsu T5010 (80 GB). Although it is not resistant against impacts that the solid-state drive, Lenovo does not protect the hard drive where the rubber bumpers to protect the metal plates and the active protection that detects falls, with a built-in accelerometer.

Three USB 2.0 ports, a VGA video output, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11n, and a combination of headset and audio ports, consists of X220 Tablet is the connector for the wired and wireless variety. If a lock slot lets you physically secure X220, and a fingerprint reader to log on quickly and safely. An ExpressCard slot is another feature you will not find on any of the tablets of 10 inches, but is often found on company laptops. Extra wireless options are available for a small bump in the price: 4G WiMAX mobile broadband and integrated with a SIM card is available for an additional $ 35 and $ 125 respectively. Lenovo ThinkPad X220 also covers the tablet with a generous three year warranty.

Performance

Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet may have a touch screen, but its components are all laptops: a dual-core 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5-2520m processor offers plenty of power under the hood compared to its competitors running on Core 2 Duo and outdated first-Core i5 genes. He bent over R11.5 Cinebench with a score of 0.76 points. Multimedia test gave a quick time of 1 minute 50 seconds in our test the handbrake video encoding and Photoshop CS5 (3:57).

With the inclusion of a second-generation central processor Intel Core i5, the ThinkPad X220 Tablet Intel also improved integrated graphics, earn tens of 3DMark 2006 2258 points (medium resolution) and points of 1286 (resolution setting high ). Where previous convertible tablets have been unable to run one of our test games, the X220 Tablet product 17.6 frames per second (fps) to 14.8 fps in Crysis and Lost Planet 2 and the lowest average is still 768-1024 unplayable frame rates, however. He was unable to run any tests on the native resolution and detail, but competing systems could not perform the tests at all.

In our MobileMark 2007 test battery life, X220 Tablet lasted 5:28 minutes with a 6 cell battery 63Wh-. Although he could not match the 8: 40 of its portable counterpart, he survived the HP EliteBook 2740p (4:42) and Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 (3:35) and came in minutes behind Lenovo X200 (5: 35).

Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet succeed where low power, bad times with Windows pills fail. Picking up where Lenovo X200 soft X220 Tablet combines multi-touch screen rotation with all the features of the X220 laptop, keyboard, an industry leader and rock solid sturdy design. Obviously, the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet has pedigree for the size and performance to support, so it is our Editors' Choice for Windows 7 tablets.
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