Thinkpad X220 Picture

Looks like the Lenovo X1 already exists. It's a phone, so this would be Thinkpad X1?

 

nope.   different product entirely.

 

Nope, it's not a notebook or nope, it's not a phone (it is a notebook)?

 

My tongue-in-cheek comment was supposed to mean that how many miles you fly doesn't matter. 0.3 lbs wouldn't make much difference, because when you fly, you don't really have to carry the laptop very much -- you carry it mainly when you are walking from your car to the security check point, and from there to the gate, and these add up to only a few minutes. Just yesterday, I walked for 1.2 miles carrying my 8.6-lb Precision plus its humongous AC adapter, but that wasn't a problem because that was only about half an hour of walking. However, if I had to carry a laptop many hours everyday, five days a week, I would prefer to have the lightest laptop possible. I would prefer a 2.7-lb laptop over a 3.0-lb one.

 

is this a new Thinkpad slate laptop?

 

I was wrong. I looked only at the second file, and saw only X120. Yes, there is a X1 in the first file that is not X120.

Judging from the naming convention, if it was a laptop, it should be a 11.6" one, a direct competitor the 11.6" Macbook Air. Perhaps that's what replaced the X2*0s? I mean, if there is a 11.6 laptop running ULV Core i7, it would have too much overlap with the X2*0s.

But my gut tells me that it's a Android Honeycomb tablet...

 

I hope not, but you know, it wouldn't surprise me. I'm hoping for a machine that pushes the limits of rugged ultraportables, and I think the name would suit that. To me it implies flagship. But I could also see it being a slate, and seeing a drug rep with an iPad today (I work in a network of community health clinics), I'm thinking there's definitely a market. I see a lot of these reps come in with Thinkpad and Latitude tablets, and if they can get away without a hard keyboard, I have to believe they'd do it more with a more trusted manufacturer behind it. I think a lot of drug reps and sales people in general just push data around a lot more than actually entering new data. An intuitive touch interface may be preferable, and if you can get a slate for 2/3 the price of a tablet, why not?

 

i would really love a slate with a thinkpad logo on it. Put that in a Nice Montblanc portfolio case, man that is a nice combo.

 

Just no atom please.

 

+1 hate these netbook CPU, this is one reason i don't own a netbook.

 

Not if the minimum option for the X2xx is a LV cpu, that could work, no? Then again, Lenovo has in the 11.6in market the X120, U160, and upcoming S205(consumer version of the X120). In the 12.5in market the upcoming E220, X220, and the out now U260. Seems like they have too many already in this market.

I would also agree with no Atom statement. The min I think I would accept is the Fusion E-350 the S205/X120e use.

 

+1, no Atoms, please

Im well fit, but I have a choice to either lug around 17" 7+ lbs machine or sub 3lbs machine both of which are able to do the work I need them to.
I dont have to lug around heavy gadgets, Ive always loved how much one can stuff into as little as possible size.
If there would be full blooded 10" laptop with full powered CPU Id be all over it, but there isnt one, not yet, only ULV/CULV that cost arm an leg atm.

I want my ultraportable to be slim, light, with long battery life and be indestructible

 

Thanks, Andrew, for the interesting recollection.
I would really like X1 to be a kind of slate-like incarnation of this twenty-year old pen-based device (with an optional wireless ThinkPad keyboard/dock station?).

PS
With a wireless charger on board.

Sapienti sat! :wink:

 

...so this will have the same keyboard as the T510 ... I love that keyboard compared the the x201

PLUS the trackpad looks much bigger now.

 

YouTube - LenovoVision's Channel


Lenovo's video at time 1:03 show that the X220 battery life is up to 23 hours

 

Of course, the bottom buttons are gone. And how I could pay for an X220: Sell my Canon Printer, DSi, and Acer 1830T.

 

I hope that 23 hours battery life is with its 9 cell and not extended slice, or if its slice then at least looking somewhat decent and fitting tight to laptop and not as bulky as the one on T410.
Secondly, I hope 6 cell will give it 10+ hours life, as good as X200s had with 9 cell "keeps on dreaming"

 

It's probably a single click pad like most newer "stylish" laptops out there. The sad thing is, none of the click-pads I've tried feels right beside those on the macbooks... But the good thing is, with a trackpoint I don't care about the touch pad.

 

Nice video. The battery life in the ad looks spectacular.... but I wonder how much will it really be with just a regular battery without a slice. 23-30 hours sounds freaking insane.

So no new X30x release. Seems to bad, everyone here that I remember was only praising it.

 

The CES version is a prototype. The final version is matte and has the ribbed style touchpad:

Lenovo T Series press shots - Engadget Galleries

 

T420 (9 cell battery - without battery slice) = 15 hours

T420s (6 cell battery) = 5.5 hours

... according to the tabook: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tabook.pdf

 

Old news, we already have that covered in other threads

 

Depressing
Disproportion...

 

Its good to see the T420s doesnt have expresscard.

 

What's wrong with ExpressCard? Plenty of useful things with EC.

 

Its extra baggage that few take advantage of. Even when people use them, their utility is quite low making them generally an ineffective waste of space most of the time.

I dont mind expresscard being available on docking stations or huge desktop replacement notebooks, etc, but its a waste of space when you put them onto the actual notebook itself that you may carry around with you.

 

So, any guess when the X220 will be announced?!

 

I read it would be announced either 3/1 or 3/5, aka tomorrow.

 

CeBIT ends tomorrow, lets hope .
Lets hope that hands on reviews come tomorrow as well !

 

Maybe that roadmap that leaked was marking CeBIT and not the exact release date.

 

YouTube - ThinkPad X220 Series Preston v4 2 25 11

Has any body seen this video yet?

 

Thanks for posting that. It looks beautiful. Compared to the X201, the lines are cleaner and smoother. With the new keyboard/trackpad design, the X220 looks like a T410s with the two speakers chopped off and the palmrest slightly reduced.

"Standard" battery giving 9 hours and "higher-capacity" battery giving 14 hours? Awesome.

 

Please give me a screen that is higher in contrast ratio and better viewing angle.

 

I at least want HD+ on the X220, without needing to pay for the X220s. I've gotten used to the crappy contrast ratio and viewing angles.

 

Bought. Please have unsocketed cpu (Ivy Bridge upgrade).

"Up to 9 hours with the standard battery pack". The 4-cell?

Also, this guarantee's the announcement is Saturday!

 

New post, but check out this pdf!! Want mine with the i5-2520M and optional USB 3.0.

 

It's IPS baby. First IPS screen on Thinkpad in a long time.

 

that video's private

 

Holy hell. Awesome. I wonder who's making that... IPS makes me think it's not Hydis since it'd probably be billed as AFFS. I didn't think AUO or TMD did anything other than TN, and I've never seen CMO with a non-TN panel that wasn't *VA (although they could have some units I've never seen sheets for). Samsung seems to be all about PVA for their wide-angle displays, so that pretty much leaves LG as the only remaining one of the usual suspects that Lenovo's sourced from in the (recent) past, right?

 

It was viewable an hour ago! No mention of optional IPS panel in it, though.

 

Video is private... what's the video about? Is it a standard Lenovo X220 promotional video, or some real X220 hand on preview/review?

 

Standard promo. Nothing really new in it though, just some brief shots of the machine with a spokesman giving the usual lines.

 

Standard talking head/ feature Promo video

 

Will the X220i also get the IPS screen or is that for the tablet models only? Because, I maybe sold if I an get the X220i with the IPS screen. I wonder if this could mean the Elitebook 25x0 update will also get an IPS screen option?

 

It looks like the LCD latches are really gone?

It says:
*An improved latching design*

and none of the rendering on in that PDF shows any LCD latch.

 

Latch that uses magnet similar to the macbook, but you have to use a latch to open it??

 

Another thing to wonder... SD card reader. Is it a SDXC card reader or still SDHC?

 

I wonder what screen the the tablet and X220s models get if the standard model gets an IPS screen.

 

I think IPS is an option for the X220s, too. Resolution-wise, someone mentioned 1600x900 and erik commented: "don't get your hopes up."

 

Probably the same. My bet is that while IPS is optional on the non-tablet configurations, it'll be the standard screen on the tablet ones. It'll work out well for Lenovo (since they'll be able to source fewer parts and in higher volume) and for us (since OMGusnotebookgeeksloveIPS).