Price Drop on Lenovo ThinkPad X60/X60s

More signs of the ThinkPad X60/X60s updates to come: there have been several price drops/sales recently across the ThinkPad X series lineup, with yet another round kicking in today, implying that they maybe wanting to clear inventory. Prices have again dropped quite a bit again … Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad X61s Spotted

The Lenovo ThinkPad X61s has been spotted in use or being demonstrated in China during an Intel conference there this week. They are going to be based on Intel’s Core 2 Duo “Santa Rosa” platform. One specific CPU mentioned was the Intel Core 2 Duo … Read more

2006 Engadget Awards – Tablet PC of the Year

Engadget is holding their 2006 Tablet PC of the Year competition right now. Among the Tablet PCs competing, are several ultraportable “convertible” (think both Tablet PC and a physical keyboard like a laptop) laptops: – Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 – Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet – Toshiba … Read more

Article: Convertible Computing–What Works and What’s Needed

Jim Forbes has written an interesting article, “Convertible Computing–What Works and What’s Needed” that covers where the convertible notebooks have done well and where they need improvement. Convertibles tend to have both a touchscreen/Tablet PC functionality, as well as a physical keyboard (Lenovo’s ThinkPad X60 … Read more