X60s Ultralight basic first review & questions

I have a ultralight X60s too. Now maybe I'm alone on this but I do have some issues with the screen. Though I cannot compare it with an X40 which I do not have. I think the screen is great, yes very bright when plugged in, but it seems to lose about a third of its brightness on battery. So my issue is that on battery the screen seems a bit dim (on max brightness) to me. IT COULD VERY WELL BE that this screen has the SAME dimness as the X40 when on battery. That would be really unfortunate if it were the case. It is important to note that lenovo might very well pull back the ultralights brightness more than other screens to save battery life- as maybe its take sup more power than regualr? Something to check into.

If it was a perfect world I would STILL like to see the Ultrabrite have MORE brightness in battery mode. I really would like other thoughts on this?? Maybe there is some way to improve the brightness on this screen when in battery mode?? Any thought on this would be appreciated. When I get a camera I'll take pictures of the screen.

ALso of note are color and viewing angles. The colors seem pretty good although certainly not that vivid or life-like- this might have more to do with the traditional use of IBM's for traditional software usage-excel,word, lotus notes etc. the viewing angles from the sides are very good, however the viewing angles from above or below the direct line of sight are poor.

About the keyboard, most of the keys are still quite good and most basic typing tasks are quite easy and comfortable to acomplish IMHO. Granted some hot keys are messed up, but still a very very good keyboard.

I get 2:50 on full brightness, but I really should get the 8 cell.

 

In the bios change the area in the "display" into the setting that says normal on battery

 

chopstix,
How much brighter do you find this makes the screen on battery? How close to Ac power> thanks, JL

 

Ok actually I think I may have found something even better (or possibly worse) I got into the bios then into Config then into Display then I press F5/F6 to change values of brightness and I select High. And indeed just as the help bar states I get the exact brightness I get when on AC- very very good. And even though it warns me that it may reduce battery life, I don't see much difference. ALso I'm wondering if I couldn't run the rest of the system on power save type settings and then still get the same battery life as normal brightness? Some more experiementing to do.

So all in all I think this bios mod of screen brightness might be very very helpful for those who really like to see bright images- I happen to think this is quite good for people writing a lot, it strains my eyes less to constantly be thinking while looking at dim type.

One last note I think IBM/Lenovo might have goofed once more on their rating of this screen, only this time for the better. They claim 180 nits I actually think it may be more like 200nits at max brightness this screen really puts some energy out. I think its a Samsung. Chopstix thanks for the info. JL