Sunday, May 15, 2011

Thinkpad X201 Review

Lenovo wants to consolidate the market for Tablet PCs and installs it for the Core i7 in a box with touchscreen monitor. However, HD is tiny, only 160 GB and 2 GB of memory, but does this affect performance? It's what we'll see!


Design
The view that Lenovo is flat, square and black, nothing attractive! The truth is that since IBM did their thinkpads, cared only to insert a good quality hardware inside their square boxes and today continue to follow the Chinese tradition.

By using a Lenovo notebook, it feels like being in a notebook of art within the housing of the 1990s. It may not seem interesting for those who like modern things, but surely please all those looking for a notebook with vintage design.

Settings and Performance
On one hand he has a 2.2Ghz Intel Core i7, on the other it has only 2GB of RAM and 160 HD. Well contradictory!

The screen is also contradictory. While  may receive finger taps and stylus, have anti-glare and anti-glare, and an excellent viewing angle, it also can reproduce images in a very bad resolution: 1280x800.

Despite all these contradictions, the performance of   computer just disappointing not to use everyday. The impression it gives is to be using a powered netbook, which is super fast, but that can not handle too many programs open at once.

One difference is that it has a cell phone embedded. Well, not quite a cell phone is a 3G Modem Card Reader Yes you Can  access the Internet without a 3G modem in the computer hung.

The connections are the same found in most notes: 3 x USB 2.0, Bluetooth, Wifi standard a / b / g / n and a differential and a memory card reader that reads all sorts of cards, and finally there is not much that talking about them, except that the laptop more adversarial history did not come with HDMI or DisplayPort. Yes, dear friends, watching movies only for the VGA output.

The screen has a response better than most tablet PCs, but still errs on the lag on some occasions. Moreover, it is not very friendly to the fingers. For the viewing of documents and video even in the sun, is visible.
During testing, the 3G modem to work well with a chip and even with the net dangling a little (nothing unusual).

Cost-benefit
On one hand it is very interesting for its touchscreen capabilities, memory card reader, 3G modem, fingerprint scanner and fax modem to the other it comes with little memory, little hard drive and a screen resolution laughable. All this for more than $ 2,000 in the U.S. or U.S. $ 5,200 in Brazil.