Lenovo ThinkPad X201T convertible tablet hits the FCC, Australia
By Donald Melanson 
posted February 5th 2010 5:13PM
posted February 5th 2010 5:13PM
Well, we just saw a ThinkPad X201 Tablet turn up in a Lenovo roadmap earlier this week and, wouldn't you know it, something called the ThinkPad X201T has now also surfaced at the FCC. What's more, while the FCC isn't dishing out any details beyond the usual test reports, the convertible tablet has already turned up at Australian retailer TechBuy, which just so happens to have the complete specs for the device. Those include a 12.1-inch WXGA touchscreen, a Core i7-620LM processor, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a fingerprint scanner, and an 8-cell battery, to name a few features. A 12-inch, Core i7-based convertible ThinkPad? Yeah, that should turn a few heads. Still no indication of a release over here, unfortunately, but TechBuy is apparently taking orders right now for the local equivalent of $3,230.
Ever since the tablets took on the wide screen, they seem to drop the SXGA+ resolution. As a day-to-day Photoshop, Eclipse and Photoshop user, 1280 x 800 has cut my screens real estate, and I wonder if something like WSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 would ever cross the market -- after all, the screen density is just the same as iPhone for WSXGA+ to run on a 13" screen.
@tangent
I have a Toshiba Tecra M7 that has a 14" WXGA+ screen. I have been looking to replace this laptop for the last year with no success. I need the higher resolution for business and graphics usage. It's unbelievable that you can't buy a convertible tablet PC with better than WXGA resolution. I was really hoping that Lenovo would make a "premium" tablet with a higher resolution.
Integrated Graphics?
what a waste! Even CS4 won't like that.
Man, don't tell me Lenovo got rid of the Wacom digitizers, too. It's a damn epidemic!
Those are some seriously nice specifications, although I would prefer an SSD over platter drive.
But $3K? There are a lot of pleasurable things I could buy for $3K, so here's hoping thats a special-market / exchange rate issue and not a realistic North American street price (I know a $40K Vette costs $80K after conversion in the UK).