Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Lenovo X60T

I picked up an X60T to replace my Acer C204. It was an 6366AJU. It came with XP Tablet Edition 2005. I did some installs and played around some. The machine was nice, but not the WOW that I had with my first tablet (Averatec) or when I got a real tablet (the Acer). The machine is well built and very light. I like the docking station with the built in DVD.

I popped in a new 7200 RPM drive and did a clean install of Vista Premium. The Lenovo update program went out and grabbed all the things I needed for the Thinkpad utilities. It took a few passes, but it all seems to be working nicely.

The machine is snappy. I have an experience rating of 3.1. Most of the installs are done and I've been settling into my routine with the tablet. The tablet is very nice, but not great. I like the size, the battery life and the feel of inking. The screen (at 1400X1050) is nice, but these 50 year old eyes have some difficulty reading the screen at times.

Some Installed Software so far:
Office 2007
PDF Annotator http://www.ograhl.com/en/index.php
Mind Manager 7 beta www.mindjet.com
Gyronix Gyroq (doesn't work with MM7 yet) www.gyronix.com
Gyronix Results Manager (doesn't work with MM7 yet) www.gyronix.com
TEO 3.0 www.tabletoutlook.com
Speedfiler http://www.claritude.com/
P'Ink www.mindandmachines.com
VS2005
DevExpress IDE Tools www.devexpress.com
Acronis tools (disk management and imaging) www.acronis.com
Perfect Disk www.raxco.com

no vista ultimate extras installed yet

Monday, May 07, 2007

What Am I Missing Here?

I saw in a blog entry about a Vista Tweak program from TotalIdea (www.totalidea.com). It looked cool and I thought I'd order it. For $30.00 how can you go wrong? In getting ready to order they force you to read the return policy - no returns, but they say you can use the demo to try out the software before you buy. This was a red flag, so I decided I'd download the software.

Now, the software comes in 3 flavors, a free version, a premium and an ultimate version. So I go to download. Only the free version is available (that I can find) as a download. Ok, so if they want me to be happy, how can I tell with the other versions? I look for a place to send an email and ask a question about this (and adding additional machines later). I can not find a place to send them an email, there is a number to call for ordering, but not product support. You can get product support, but only for registered users. Huh? I kept reading the FAQ, but can't seem to find the info I want.

Also, they have a funky web site. They have a menu bar with nice looking icons, but I had to click twick to get it to do what I wanted. Maybe if I was using FireFox I wouldn't have that problem, but it does not work nicely with IE7.