Thinkpad x20x (s/t/i) Owners Thread

[TheLastOracle]

Thank you for valuable suggestion.

I like the X201s so much, because its light weight, better screen resolution and battery life.

The only thing that I concerned is the x201s does not support WWAN. Do you know if I can get a mini PCI Gobi 2000 card to install to X201s? I don't know why the Lenovo would rather put a Legacy modem but not a WWAN card to their top of the line model.

The X201s and X201t use the sample 25W i7 640LM but review from the Laptopmag.com indicating the 5 hours 10 minutes for X201t and 8 hours 31 minutes for X201s. Their difference is 3 hour and 21 minutes. It is reason why I hope the owner of 201T in the forum can tell me his actual experience of the battery consumption. If I can not have any answer for the battery life, I think I will pick the X201s.

the links for the X201T/S reviews:

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/lapt...01-tablet.aspx
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/lapt...pad-x201s.aspx

Durazing: I paid $699 for the drive plus $4 S&H for the Crucial C300 SSD 256GB.

[jonlumpkin]

Personally, unless you desire the added versatility of a tablet (which I love) or the superior display quality (albeit lower resolution) then the price premium for the tablet model is probably not justified.

The x200s had less antennas (3x3 WLAN and NO WWAN) than the x200 (2x2 WLAN [webcam models] and 2x2 WWAN) or the x200T (3x3 WLAN [w/ or w/o cam] and 2x2 WWAN in a plastic riser). For this reason the x200s does not natively support internal WWAN. I am almost positive the situation is the same on the x201 series.

Some users did install aftermarket WWAN on the x200s. I believe this required a modified BIOS from Zender (use the search tool and you should find it). Full details in the thread but it involved re-purposing some of the WLAN antennas to the WWAN modem. However, there is no guarantee this same hack will be repeatable on the x201s (although I suspect it will in time).

Is there a particular reason why a USB or ExpressCard WWAN will NOT work? I certainly appreciate the idea of having it internal, but a lot of people use external ones.

You might have to wait a while to get good battery life numbers for the x201T. I don't believe anyone on this forum has received one yet. However, it should be the same situation as the x200s/x200T in which the tablet consumes very nearly the same number of watts but only lasts 78.5% as long due to the smaller battery.

[TheLastOracle]

Hi jonlumpkin,

After I read your information, I made my decision to order the X201T. I currently have an external Sprint 3G USB modem. The device is not only droping the connection very often but working under very bad performance. Since I rely on the 3G WWAN helping me to support my users (remote access and Skype calls), I hope the new laptop will overcome the 3G issue.

I may take the risk of the short battery life of X201T but exchange of handwriting (in Chinese) and internal 3G WWAN. Unfortunately, I have to sacrify the screen resolution.

Thank you again.

[ckx]

There is one option: the Intel 6250 card support WiMAX 3.5G WWAN (IEEE 802.16) without requiring a WWAN card or additional WWAN antennas (the 6250 is also a 802.11a/g/n WLAN card and it uses WLAN antennas). In the US, Sprint and ClearWire offers WiMAX service in a few areas; if you happen to live in one of those areas, you can get WWAN service on X201s with WXGA+ screen.

Just a thought.

[TheLastOracle]

Just let you know that I have ordered the X201T, the spec is:

LenovoThinkPad X201 Intel Core i7-640LM 2.13GHz Tablet - 2GB RAM, 250GB SATA HDD, 12.1" WXGA TFT MultiTouch Display, No Optical Drive, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g/n wireless, WWAN Upgradeable

I ordered it because it costs only $1849 plus $152.54(sales tax) = $2001.54. It is a lot of cheaper than Lenovo site.

The spec. is very basic but I had ordered the Crucial C300 256GB drive. The rest of parts that I will upgrade, are 2GB RAM and Gobi 2000 WWAN card.

[jonlumpkin]

Those specs are very good. Enjoy your tablet (I love mine)!

[josibarns]

I have just received my x201s this evening and have already run some tests

Here it comes

3D mark 2006
1511 (Wolfenstein Enemy Territory runs smoothly, that's all I need
CPU 2466

Superpi 1.5
1M 15.647S
2M 38.220s

wPrime
32M 27.16s


The screen is rather good, very blue and the contrast on the low side though.

The battery life seems to be 10h+ with win7 64, I hope to get 12h+ with winXP

The speaker works !!!!

The computer gets warm under load, as warm as my T60p under load. I assume that under load it uses the turboboost effect hence increasing the heat.

Here is the config I ordered:

1 5129CTO THINKPAD X201S - 1 YEAR DEPOT WARRANTY
1 60Y7811 SBB ICI7-640LMP2.13GHZ,1066MHZ
1 45M3090 VBB GENUWIN7PROFES.64
1 60Y7932 SBB GWIN7PROF64 US ENGLISH
1 60Y7817 SBB 12.1WXGA+LEDW/TPADRC3X3LLA
1 42X6309 VBB 4GBPC3-8500 1067MHZ2DIMM
1 44C5216 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH
1 60Y7821 SBB TRACKPOINTTOUCHPAD
1 60Y7836 SBB 160GBHARDISKDRIVE5400RPM
1 60Y7826 SBB 5-1MEDIACARDREADER+MODEM
1 44C7628 SBB TPD X200 S 9CLL LI-ION BAT
1 41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA
1 60Y7824 SBB BLUETOOTH W/ANTENNA
1 45M4805 SBB IN.CENTADV.-N+WIMAX 6250
1 60Y7853 SBB WIN7LANPACK US ENGLISH

[hitman_36]

i still didnt received mine ... (ordered from myus.com since I'm outside US). Myus.com statement: I called the seller and they do not expect to ship your order for another 2 weeks or so ... is this normal?

[brucewilsonpa]

I ordered it because it costs only $1849 plus $152.54(sales tax) = $2001.54. It is a lot of cheaper than Lenovo site.

Where did you find this price? Better than I've been finding.

Thanks

[laptopzzzz]

Have someone here tried to remove the modem or found where to order a x201s without modem?