Thinkpad X61 Tablet

by Lenovo

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000RBB8ZS
• Item model number: 776759U
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2005

Product Description

Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 1.6GHz - 12.1" XGA - 1GB DDR2 SDRAM - 120GB - Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi - Windows Vista Business - Black

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this thinkpad tablet with LInux, October 10, 2010

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Chris Judge (Bloomington) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thinkpad X61 Tablet (Personal Computers)

I have now had this tablet for 1 year, and I love it.
I am a mathematics professor. I use it for teaching calculus
(I display the writing on the tablet to an overhead).
I use it for writing notes. I use it for writing papers.
I use it for everything I do.

Of course, this product has been replaced by a newer line,
but the mathematicians who were inspired by my use of this tablet,
to buy the newer ones, say that they are happy that they got one.

Notes:

1) Took time to get used to the mouse in the middle of keyboard.

2) I run Linux (Ubuntu) instead of the Windows junk that came with machine.

3) Battery life is now at about 3 hours.

4) Runs a little hot (in comparison to e.g. Macbook).

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Laptop, Horrible Company, April 10, 2009

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_Voltron_ (Midwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thinkpad X61 Tablet (Personal Computers)

The laptop is great, Lenovo is horrible.

First the good points: The build quality of this laptop is absolutely fantastic. Its a very solid unit and doesnt feel cheap. The performance is very good and its very lightweight. I great laptop for travel.

The bad points: Lenovo's pre-installed software apps and their customer support absolutely ruins the experience of this laptop. Lenovo provides lousy software that comes pre-installed. A program called "System Update" basically rendered my computer useless after it updated all the Thinkvantage stuff. The blue Thinkvantage button didnt work, the hotkeys didnt work, my wireless didnt work, the tablet buttons didnt work, and my computer went from taking about 2 minutes to boot to taking about 10 minutes to boot. So I had to get Lenovo customer support involved and they are not only rude but were absolutely no help at all. I was on the phone for hours and ended up getting transfered from one person to the next and no one could tell me how to fix it.

I read over and over about how bad Lenovo's customer support is before I bought this laptop, but I figured "that wont happen to me." Well it did, so I guess I can only blame myself. I ended up selling this and buying an HP.

17 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lenovo X61 Tablet PC: Stepford Wife Inside Out, September 21, 2007

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Ronald Greenberg (Woodbury, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thinkpad X61 Tablet (Personal Computers)

The Lenovo X61 tablet pc will fall victim to the glass ceiling of mass marketing. Only the sleek, fashionable or the best buys make it big. Neither, the aesthetically lackluster-bureaucratic ThinkPad is nevertheless the finest tablet for a reasonable price ($1,624).

The X61 is a luxury for the average consumer, an exciting, fresh exposure to touch screen and handwritten input. As the tablet is a slate and a laptop, those comfortable footing the bill will be pleased as it can always double as a standard notebook; typical tablet ineptitudes of poor handwriting recognition apply but the full size keyboard is a reassuring fallback.

For eyes already set on a tablet, this computer is, all around, superior:

The striking, conveniently outdoors compatible, automatic rotating silky screen (screen orientation automatically goes from landscape to portrait), makes inking truly natural. Fast and smooth, higher end models are `loaded with a 7200rpm hard drive, 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and 2GB of RAM' at amazingly irrelevant expense to the weight-load.

Ruggedly a creature comfort and conveniently built ultraportable, it is conducive for comfortable use almost anywhere. Note though, cradling this baby in your arms is not an option as you use it; reasonable 8-cell battery life (4 hours) is a must, so add-on an extra $130 and that in gold ingots to carry around. Also, plan on an additional $100 expense for an external CD/DVD drive as the X61 has none built in and Lenovo solutions are obscenely expensive.

Given its comfort, savvy students, this can be a notebook with omnipotence. Indulge in software like OneNote 2007 and make a surprisingly useful multi-sensory database of all your notes. As you take handwritten notes, simultaneous recording of the lecture allows you to later hear what was said exactly when you wrote a specific word.

The business user is the one Lenovo is primarily catering to. Given myriad tailored software, portability, high quality, and skintight security with fingerprint reader, this tablet will be toted alongside many suits alike--and have no problem blending in.

But don't be fooled industry folk and students alike, rip off that interchangeable facade, open up, press buttons and scream with the x61: `I'm sexy and smart where it matters.'