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"No touchpad, its a thinkpad."
Pros: Very light, good performance,
Cons: No touchpad, expensive, ugly, no Brite screen
Summary: I'm a computer tech working in a school and we bought many R51 and X40 thinkpad.
The X40 is very small and light, if your data is on the HD and all you need is a wireless connection, the X40 is probably a good option.
Most people use USB Key storage nowadays.
IBM also has a DVD portable in option which you must buy if you intend to install softwares and games.
I tested the X40 using several games (because games are the best tools to test any pc).
Half-Life2 was running smoothly, with few glitches on the graphics, probably due to driver. Doom 3 was also running smoothly at 640x480 also with few visual glitches.
Updating the driver may solve the problem, but since i tested the X40 at work which mean to work, i couldnt test the gaming performance deeper.
The X40 doesn't come with a touchpad. So if you are in your car, train, airplane or something...you will be stuck using their stick. As you know, most Thinkpad have that little red stick that some of us call the G point.
On a desk you should use a usb mouse, there are 2 of them, one on each side i beleive.
The X40 also support flash memory stick if you wish to dump some photo from your digital cam or photo.
The screen is clear and sharp, i was able to see clearly from most angles. However the X40 does not have the Xbrite technology that modern Compaq laptops have. You know what i mean by Xbrite.. like glasses LCD. The X40 does not have that. It is still on the old LCD technology.
Because there are no Hot point available when i did the test i could not test the wireless but i was able to connect to the internet without any problem using the RJ45 port.
The X40 is so light you can lift it with just 2 fingers and hold it for as long as you want.
This model does not have fingerprint scan either. but who need fingerprint scan?? definitaly not techs... they are a pain to admin especially when there are many technicians maintening these computers.
Do i recommend this X40 ? wait until they add touchpad and drop the price a little.
The external DVD drive (optional) is also too expensive for the X40. You can always buy an external DVD drive from some random company but Ibm made and sell a slim that in my opinion fit better with the X40. But my guess is that any external DVD should work.
Good luck.
Computer IT tech for a school..
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Of great inconvenience to many people is the wrongly located Fn button on the Lenovo ThinkPads. Most people are used to have the Ctrl button at the leftmost corner.
