Review: ThinkPad X61 Tablet (Student Tablet PC)

Tracy over at The Student Tablet PC has posted another review of the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet. The ThinkPad X61 Tablet is Lenovo’s Santa Rosa-based 12.1″ (non-widescreen) tablet offering in the ultraportable “convertible” class (you can convert the ThinkPad between a traditional laptop format and … Read more

Review: Lenovo 3000 V200 (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine has published a review by Cisco Cheng of the Lenovo 3000 V200, giving it a 3.5 out of 5. The Lenovo 3000 V200 is based on Intel’s Santa Rosa platform and has a 12.1-inch widescreen display (something the ThinkPad X Series does not … Read more

Article: Laptops Reach the Holy Grail

Tim Bajarin has written an interesting article for PC Magazine, Laptops Reach the Holy Grail, talking about ultraportable laptops hitting the “sweet” spot of computing, weighing around or under 3 pounds and having a “two-spindle system” containing both a hard drive and an optical drive. … Read more

Article: Intel’s Santa Rosa Refresh in Q1 2008

VR-Zone has obtained some information concerning Intel’s next major CPU upgrade for mobile CPUs, due out in the first quarter of 2008. They are going to be 45nm CPUs, dual-core, and have 3MB, 4MB, or 6MB of L2 Cache. Penryn (the code name for the … Read more

HP Compaq 2710p: Pricing / Ship Dates

HP has released price and shipping details about their new “convertible” ultraportable, the HP Compaq 2710p. The earliest it looks like it ships is July 21, 2007, and the price starts at $1649 USD. All are shipping with Microsoft Windows Vista Business 32-bit/64-bit, with the … Read more