Friday, May 20, 2011

x220t after a day or two

Here's my impressions after a couple days.

Solid build. Great keyboard. Still not completely used to the touchscreen with pen or finger... Less accurate than I'd like, but I suspect I have to get better at using it.

Forced power off two times so far. First time during shutdown the system wouldn't turn off, had to hold power button to force it off. Second time in Windows when the screen went blank. I did not switch it to an alternate screen, or do anything like that. It was the result of attempting to put the computer to sleep using the power button, and then pressing the other two screen buttons a few times.

The system has also powered up without the trackpoint or touchpad working, but this was prior to the full set of system updates and windows updates installed.

Power button is incapable of putting the system to sleep or doing anything other than forcing a power off. I hope this is a software bug. Of course I checked the power settings, and even tried to set the power button to hibernate which didn't work.

Camera seems to work and is as grainy as expected for below 1 megapixel resolution.

Fingerprint reader can recognize a fingerprint regardless of the direction of the swipe. Very nice.

The system is NOT silent. It is by no means noisy. Stand five feet away and I'm sure you couldn't possibly hear it, but sit right next to it, and it does make a low hum. I have the i7, so it is possible that an i5 or i3 might be quieter or even cause the fan to turn off occasionally.

Handwriting recognition still has a lot to be desired; I'm hoping to get better at writing in a way that makes it more seamless.

The tools that Lenovo provides for configuring the pen and tablet mode are very primitive looking. I am not sure why the developers couldn't make nice looking UIs as existed in the past. The pen tablet allows you to configure a pen that has 2 side buttons... whereas the pen that came with the system has only one side button.

The tablet is pretty light, but of course you can't comfortably hold it up with one hand and type / tap on it with the other. But it is definitely light.

The screen rotates only to the left. It allows all four orientations of the desktop on the screen. Allows you to hold the laptop in any mode in whichever direction you'd like.

More to come...

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