Lenovo X61

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Lenovo ThinkPad X61

X61 Review, by Carla Thornton August 28, 2007

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• Latest User Reviews 6 reviews
• Reviewed by: toname

  Duration of ownership: 3 Months

  Strengths: Light weight, Fast, Available options, Battery Life, Worldwide Warranty Available, Good Customer Service.

  Weaknesses: Graphics, it’s not made for gaming. So don’t buy it if you’re into gaming, but excellent for everything else.

  Overall: Buy online so you can configure this laptop for your needs, I did and I’m very happy with what I got. So many options to choose from the best is it’s ultrabase which allows you to add an extra HDD, DVD drive or extended life battery. Lots of USB ports (the laptop itself has three and with the ultrabase adds an extra four) , Bluetooth (optional), wireless a/g/n, fast 7200 rpm HDD (optional available as well as a HDD encryption good for those Government workers that like to loose their laptops), With my laptop configure with the fastest available CPU Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz, 3 GB memory, 200 GB 7200rpm HDD, MS Vista Business, Ultrabase with HDD Adaptor and DVD Drive, 8 Cell Battery, Intel Wireless A/G/N, Bluetooth, carrying case, A/C adaptor all under $2000.00. Lenovo always have sales every month on their laptops. Oh, the customer service was excellent for someone living outside the US. All other brands don’t even give warranty service outside the US (other brands would say they are a world leader in PC sales but will not service their products if sold outside the US.) Lenovo/IBM will service all the PCs/Laptops they sale worldwide. Service after the sale is always important!

• Reviewed by: vyip

  Duration of ownership: 2 Days

  Strengths: small, light

  Weaknesses: dead pixels on screen

  Overall: You will likely receive a laptop with dead pixels. Lenovo will not replace or repair it as its policy allow 5 defective pixels. Very poor customer service.

• Reviewed by: JakeTech

  Duration of ownership: 4 Months

  Strengths: Nice piece of hardware

  Weaknesses: Lenovo Customer Service ranks at the very bottom.

  Overall: I have been a user of Tablet PCs since their introduction, and have used several units from several manufacturers. While I've had a couple of problems here and there, the manufacturers have always resolved them. A few months ago, I purchased a totally loaded Lenovo X61 Table PC. While I really like this unit, I've had a few problems. But most importantly, my customer service experience with Lenovo has been nothing short of a nightmare. So while this may be a decent piece of hardware, I have been going out of my way to warn my customers that horrible customer service equals an unacceptably costly value proposition. There are a lot of good products in the marketplace. Go find a good a conmpany who really values customer service - Lenovo does not rank among those companies who care.

• Reviewed by: bradford75

  Duration of ownership: 4 Days

  Strengths: small

  Weaknesses: poor quality and support, crashes all the time

  Overall: If you want to buy this notebook, you should be aware that Lenovo might send you a notebook with a defective LCD screen (dead or stuck pixels). There can be up to eight of them on your brand new LCD screen, and Lenovo will argue that this is not a defective screen. They will not repair it, they will not take back the laptop. If you want to send the laptop back, because you are unhappy about these green, white or red dots starring at you from the middle of the screen, they will charge you 15% restocking fee (280$ in my case!). This is to ensure that you will not return Lenovos cheap joke of a thinkpad.If you are into Russian roulette buy this notebook, maybe it arrives without defects, maybe not. In the latter case you will have to live with it, since their is no support. Good luck !

• Reviewed by: JLoiac

  Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

  Strengths: The Lenovo X61 is a well built unit. It is fast, portable, and has excellent wireless mobility features. The only thing it lacks is a DVD drive. I purchased the docking bay and DVD burner for under $300 at Amazon. I also recommend installing Windows XP until a service pack comes out for Vista.

  Weaknesses: DVD drive is not integrated. But, a docking bay with DVD drive can be bought separately for about $300.

  Overall: If you do not mind not having a DVD drive, than it is an excellent unit.

• Reviewed by: draycal

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Fast..great graphics. Also very light & portable. Battery life on 8-cell battery is excellent

  Weaknesses: slow to boot up even with the option of Intel turbo memory. Speaker not very loud or clear, it's located under the laptop.

  Overall: Excellent business tablet. Fast, portable & great battery life make this an excellent tablet. Graphics will even do well with gaming as long as you dont care about the sound.

• Reviewed by: ikeliu

  Strengths: high-end configuration

  Weaknesses: LCD could be better.

  Overall: Basically this machine has everything you could think of. A fast 2GHz CPU, 2GB memory, 160GB hard drive, and the dvd writer option. It's business-customer oriented so the vista business is sufficient. One thing that would have made the machine perfect is a better LCD screen. The current one has poor viewing angle.

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