Well I have to tell… I’m the happy owner of a ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC. Probably is not the latest model in Lenovo’s Tablet PCs but to tell the truth I don’t have any complaint about it.
It has passed one year since I got it and the performance still the same, pretty good for all the work that I have done with it. When I got it, at the begging it use to have 1GB of factory installed RAM, but because of my demanding needs on my work I upgrade it to 2GB.
I have run many test with it installing several operating systems, from the factory installed Windows XP 2005 Tablet PC Edition, to Windows Vista Business, Ultimate and Enterprise Editions, Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux, and even the hacked version of Mac OS.
With the Windows Versions I didn’t have any problems running it. With the Linux versions I had to do a little of research finding the appropriate drivers and I liked very much the performance with those operating systems, but unfortunately I had to uninstalled them because most of the applications that I use at my work are Windows based, and I have to emulate Windows environments with CrossOver Office or Wine because sometime apps may become slower or reduce their performance, but regarding the drivers and if I only used it a home or in a enterprise environment with no Windows Based apps, everything works fine. With Mac OS… everything sucked! Of course, Mac OS is not designed to run other systems than Mac PCs or notebooks, but it let me installed fine after making some minor changes on the BIOS, like only working with one processor instead of two and changing the SATA interface to compatibility (EIDE emulation).
One day a friend told me that working with Tablet PCs was incredible; especially because they can help you reduce time and be more productive, and that’s true. You can comfortably grab it as a notebook and start writing with your own had, I use Microsoft OneNote 2007 to do this and later I copy and paste what I have handwritten and past it into a Word file or even to my Lotus Notes client to send an email.
What I liked is that the system with time starts to learn and recognize better your handwriting so margins of recognizing unwanted letter become fewer. Windows Vista has a better recognition feature than Windows XP 2005 Tablet Edition, but I like more the gadgets found on Windows XP 2005.
It includes an Ink Desktop where I can take quick notes or when I’m bored to draw a little bit and then erase it.
Working with Tablet PCs is something fun and productive, I highly recommend to have one, especially if you are a frequent traveler or a mobile user as I am, and it is better the experience with a ThinkPad Tablet PC, because the cover is made of Magnesium which will make it harder and lighter to carry protecting your data and screen from unwanted drops which may break it.
