Will x201 fulfill these requirements

I ordered an x201 because I wanted the smaller screen that I used to love on my Dell m1210. Then I panicked when I saw the system requirements below, and cancelled the order, determined to buy a t410s. The x201 shipped before it could cancel and will be arriving Thursday. My dilemma is I really want the smaller footprint, but I'm not sure it will run well with the program. This will mainly be used for a Bible Study program which lists these as system requirements:
The recommended requirements for running Logos 4 on a PC are:

Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
3GB+ RAM
Windows Vista or Windows 7
DVD drive
1280X1024 display
512MB DirectX10 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
20 GB hard drive space on local drive (May require additional space depending on your library).
Broadband internet connection

The x201 is an i7 with 6gig of ram and of course, integrated graphics. That's what I'm worried about, the directx10 requirement. I would love to try it out because I like the form factor best but don't want to pay a restocking fee which I surely will have to if I open the box.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

It's difficult to say without having first hand experience with the program you're talking about, but I do have a hard time believing that that program requires a discrete graphics card. You have a very powerful X201 with a pretty darned powerful integrated graphics chipset, and my guess would be that everything will run just fine.

 

is there a trial version of this software available for download? i can try it on my X200 for you, if it works then it should be okay for your X201 too.

FYI, 5700 MHD graphics card on the X201 is fully direct X10 compatible.

 

512mb for graphics is a pretty serious requirement.

 

That's mighty neighborly of you. Thank you for the offer but I don't think you can test it out. The software is free, but unfortunately it only gets pressed when you have lots of resources, as I do, just over 2300 books and commentaries. The main drag on systems is indexing and searching all of those, displaying them it seems to me shouldn't be all that difficult. I just have a hard time imagining this x201 will not run it just fine, but I'm a bit scared to take the plunge because if it doesn't there's that nasty 15% restocking fee.

 

Great to know about the x10 compatibility too.

 

That would require serious amount of CPU power and not much GPU power (amount of graphic card ram is not a good indication of GPU processing power). I think you would benefit a lot from a SSD in the future. As the speed of indexing really depends on how fast you can shuffle the data between CPU, ram and HDD.

So in the future you should look towards a SSD as an upgrade option.

 

I'm inclined to agree. Indexing large quantities of books is a CPU and file I/O intensive task but generally has little to no impact on the GPU. Also, FWIW the x201 integrated GPU can be assigned >1GB of system RAM as memory (this isn't nearly as fast as a dedicated GPUs on board memory, but it should work). Your x201 has one of the fastest mobile CPUs available and a decent SSD will take care of file I/O concerns (consider this upgrade if things seem slow).

 

I just got an email back from a support person from the software company and they assure me the x will handle the program easily. More when it gets here, probably Thursday...

 

keep us posted.

 

x201 arrived last Thursday. I'm happy to say it runs the program in question absolutely flawlessly. No problem at all. I'm also happy to say that this is probably the finest laptop I've ever owned. What build quality and solid, solid, solid. Also fast. And I love the thinkvantage tools. Really well done. If this holds up I think I just switched from Dell for good.

 

Nice, congrats! Just out of curiosity, does your keyboard also flexes near the enter key?

 

@unreal25 try to take off the keyboard and then it back again.... the enter key area shouldn't be flexing as such.

 

Not at all.

 

You guys rock! Fixed What caused the apparent flex was the little strap (SSD is just below the enter key) that is used to take the disk out. I just tucked it beneath it the disk and its perfect now!

Btw, this laptop is awesome, I took the keyboard out literally in 2 mins. I was surprised the laptop isn't booby-trapped like Dell/AW - an attempt to take out the keyboard like that would quickly end up in tearing down the extremely short connector cable... -.-

 

this is why i love the thinkpads....

 

Are there different x200 keyboards? There is a small flex on mine as well. It's the area above HDD.

I guess perforated keyboard and gap between HDD and keyboard makes it possible.

 

all the x20x keyboards are perforated.. but there is lot of support under the keyboard, so flex should be minimal... @Oct when did you get the X200? have you tried reseating the keyboard?

 

I've got it last week. To be honest I haven't noticed it until unreal25 asked about that.. I never thought testing this part..

Yes, I tried to reseat the keyboard, same thing, although it may be different issue than unreal's.

It's still fine, I don't type with a lot of pressure, however sometimes I may hit enter harder.

The problem is if I apply same pressure on keyboard on left side and right side, the latter one has some flex, bends inside... I was thinking to put something between hdd and keyboard, that way there won't be any gaps there. However I was afraid of hdd's heat, but I don't think it will be that hot there...

Thanks.

 

Love my x201, got an intel x25-m SSD, 8GB of RAM and for an ultraportable laptop its extremely powerful!

Also, the keyboard is sooooo much nicer than my x61- just the right balance.

 

Yeah I think it's exactly the same. If I do put more pressure (I don't usually put that much) the right side still flexes, but very little. The left side doesn't even with harder pressure. I also thought about putting something there.

Another 2 places where I notice more considerable flex is 1) the big Expresscard slot. Since the slot is pretty useless to me, I am thinking whether something can be put there as well. 2) the little place between the buttons for trackpoint and the space bar. The keyboard is excellent to type on, regardless.

 

if you notice flexes, then it may be useful to put some felt like padding (cut into little circle) and place them under the places where flexes are occurring.