X61S arrived - box in my hands

It came from SHANGHAI, China yesterday July 4th at 1am and arrived today July 5th at 10am via UPS "ground."

 

Sweet. Can you take some pictures? When did you place the order?

 

when did you order it??

 

June 15th - checking now to see if I have any double AA's - my camera is finicky about rechargeables.

 

oops!! my x61s was ordered on Jun 5!!!

 

What config. is your X61s?

 

Okay first impressions are very good, I like how small it is. My only experience with notebooks is a Toshiba a135-2226 I picked up from Office Depot for $350 back in March. It's a 15.4 widescreen with a 2 hour battery and a celeron M430 (it feels just as fast as my 4 year old AMD XP3200)

First off, I've got to swap out the 2gb I bought a couple weeks back - 512 on vista is too slow(took about 10 minutes to initialize on the first load), but the 965 graphics chip is not too shabby along with the 1.4ghz L7300 Core Duo 2. As far as the battery is concerned - I've only had it plugged in an hour and its up to 73% charged.

Complete specs: 1.4ghz L7300, 80GB 5400, Bluetooth, no extra antenna, 512mb Ram, fingerprint reader


I can't believe how light it is, the fingerprint reader is also very cool. And the non-glossy screen is a plus as well. The only thing I noticed on the screen is a weird imprint that isn't noticable when the screen is on.

Okay picture time

 

Thanks for the great pictures!
I see you don't have Ultralight screen in your conf.
Maybe that why ours still delay...

 

actually I do, I guess "complete specs" weren't so complete:

7668CTOCTO THINKPAD X61S-1YD
42X0097 SBB 12.1"ULTRALIGHT L7300 1.4G
42V8012 SBB MS WIN VISTA HOME BASIC
42X0367 SBB MSWINVISHOMB32 US ENGLISH
41W2057 VBB 512MB PC2-5300 667MHZ1DIMM
42X0133 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH
42X0754 SBB TRACKPOINT W/FINGERPR.READ
42V9130 SBB 80GB HDD,5400RPM ATA 2.5"
62P6054 VBB INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN
41W1685 SBB 11ABGWIFI WL LAN USEULAANZ
41W1830 SBB 8CELL LI-ION BATTERY 2.6AH
41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA
27R1769 SBB PSTN CABLE
42X0202 SBB LANG.PACK_US ENGLISH
41W1910 SBB PACKAGING
42V8299 SBB 512MBPC2-5300 DDR2 667MHZ
42X1466 SBB CLEAR PLATE X61,WLAN BT
42V9665 SBB FCC, LABEL
42X0412 SBB GEO LBL US,WLAN BT
41W1982 SBB LOGO PLATE
42X0401 SBB MT 7668 SYSTEM LABEL
42X0948 SBB MECH MISC PARTS
42V7973 SBB MS LABEL (VISTA BASIC)
42T7135 SBB INTEL LABEL CORE-2
42X1461 SBB WLAN,MISC PARTS
39T6439 SBB BLUETOOTH W/ANTENNA

Anyhow I just got done swapping in 2gb of ram into this thing, its running even faster now! Vista just might be bearable.

 

7668CTO CTO THINKPAD X61S-1YD
42V8012 SBB MS WIN VISTA HOME BASIC 42X0367 SBB MSWINVISHOMB32 US ENGLISH
42X0091 SBB 12.1" XGA TFT L7300 1.4GHZ 41W2057 VBB 512MB PC2-5300 667MHZ1DIMM
42X0133 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH 42X0753 SBB TRACKPOINT
42V9130 SBB 80GB HDD,5400RPM ATA 2.5" 62P6054 VBB INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN 41W1501 SBB INTELPRO/WL3945ABGUSCNLAAP 41W1829 SBB 4CELL LI-ION BATTERY 2.6AH 41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA
27R1769 SBB PSTN CABLE
42X0202 SBB LANG.PACK_US ENGLISH 41W1910 SBB PACKAGING
42V8299 SBB 512MBPC2-5300 DDR2 667MHZ 42X1466 SBB CLEAR PLATE X61,WLAN BT 42V9665 SBB FCC, LABEL
42X0412 SBB GEO LBL US,WLAN BT
41W1982 SBB LOGO PLATE
42X0401 SBB MT 7668 SYSTEM LABEL 42X0948 SBB MECH MISC PARTS
42V7973 SBB MS LABEL (VISTA BASIC) 42X1233 SBB NEWINTELLAB_DUALCORE/CEDUO 42X1461 SBB WLAN,MISC PARTS
39T6439 SBB BLUETOOTH W/ANTENNA

almost same to the x61s of politicorific. I found lenovo charged me several days ago.

 

my x61s hasn't ultralight screen either, but now...

 

I'm so envy you!!
My 2 X61s(1 for my friend) ordered on 2nd and 6th of June, still no news yet..

 

My X61s with ultralight screen was ordered on 6/17... Just a few days after yours, politicorific...

I don't know if I'm happy or sad... On one hand, there's hope for mine to ship out soon, but on the other hand, it's anguishing to see yours while I have no idea when/if I'm getting mine.

 

I ordered mine one day later than you.
I have the same feeling as you since I do not know when I could get mine.
For a new thing like X61, time is a part of its value.

 

so do these come with an internal optical drive?..

 

No.

.......

 

lol
..........

 

politicorific, can you comment on the right palm rest? Does it get hot/warm like the last generation X60?

 

Many already have said, yes it still is hot.
Especially with atheros.
But the intel wifi has been highly problematic for a number of ppl on the X, so pick your poison LOL

 

How is the screen? Don't like mine.

 

I've been on this thing non-stop since about 2 hours after first posting. Running Super PI (2 million digits, 1 minute 20 seconds) - been copying quite a few files over, checking out videos. So far I haven't noticed anything really.

The next thing I'm probably going to do is pull the drive out an clone/ghost it on another laptop - then I'll wipe it and probably put vista on it. I did this with my last machine as it had pitiful vista performance. I'm a little hesitant until I can confirm that I have drivers and that the utilities are available for XP - so I may wait a few days on this.

One thing I was surprised at was that my other laptop's 80GB drive had better performance according to Windows Vista experience... guess I should run HDTach just to make sure

 

But it's the wifi that makes the palm rest hot, not running SuperPi

What's your impression of the screen quality (ignoring that it's XGA, everyone knows that). I'm not too happy with my X60 samsung screen but mine is not UL like yours

 

WiFi?
Isn't it the Harddrive being the source of heat?

 

Many people have complained about the heat from the wireless card located just below the right palmrest on the X60... The X61 was supposed to have some improvements in heat dissipation, but some have reported that it was still warm.