Lenovo X1 - Another MBA challenger

[coldmack]

@Coldmack Please share with us your ideal computer. Keep it real and within the limits of the present.

A 12in Powerbook with PPC G7 cpu, and/or the rumored ARM based(quad core non-Intel variant) Air, but in a 12in form factor.

 

[halledise]

Computers are tools. OSes are tools. Applications are tools. The tasks they enable is what is important. If you want to e-mail and OS X didn't allow that, you wouldn't run OS X just because it's OS X. You'd ditch it for something that lets you e-mail.

looks like a tool, sounds like a tool, is a tool

 

[TheMacBookPro]

Hmmmm, a cheap plastic body versus a metal body. Winbloz versus OSX.

That's not a challenger, that's a poor excuse for a wannabe.

You are missing one thing, Garbagtel on both, which automatically make it a fail.

Judging by your spelling of Windows, you two must not be biased at all.

/sarcasm

Winbloz and Garbagtel? Seriously? How old are you people?

 

[Hellhammer]

That's like saying I can eat 10 tacos in 5 minutes, it's a pointless point. Intel is like an old dog that need to be taken behind the shed and taken out softly.

For some reason, the old dog is still the fastest dog in the block. AMD is currently the three-legged dog that tries to keep up with Intel but the gap is getting bigger year after year. The only way to stop Intel would be to stop buying their products. Currently, you don't have many choices and in many areas, Intel is the only company that can deliver decent performance. Why would a consumer pay the same $ and get a worse product? People want the biggest bang for their buck and in most cases, that is what Intel provides.

Don't start to whine about Intel's unethical business models and crap like that. Business is business and often it's not nice to watch. If you take a look at any of today's successful companies, you will realize that they all got their dark side. You can't make billions of profit every quarter and keep every employee and rival happy at the same time.

 

[BENJMNS]

I'm not, so I doubt anyone would lie to me.



And even here, I bet people don't own a computer to run an OS. An OS doesn't do very much besides run processes and display a UI.

People here own computers (Macs in this instance, like my MBA) to perform tasks. Video editing, Internet browsing, audio creation, photo editing, coding, VPN into work, etc... They do not own a computer to run an OS.

I run Mac OS X on my MBA because it performs all the tasks I need it to perform. If I didn't have OS X, i'd hunt for some other OS that lets me get on and be productive with my tool. It used to be Linux on Dell hardware for me.

Computers are tools. OSes are tools. Applications are tools. The tasks they enable is what is important. If you want to e-mail and OS X didn't allow that, you wouldn't run OS X just because it's OS X. You'd ditch it for something that lets you e-mail.

yup.

people who split hairs over function this v. function that are born to become lower to middle mgmt IT.

having now used the osx for work, i can't say it's any better or worse than windows7.

what i do care about is productivity and results. since I use the office system a lot, it's definitely 2nd rate on the osx.

 

[halledise]

yup.

people who split hairs over function this v. function that are born to become lower to middle mgmt IT.

having now used the osx for work, i can't say it's any better or worse than windows7.

what i do care about is productivity and results. since I use the office system a lot, it's definitely 2nd rate on the osx.

buy a peecee and be happy running office

 

[BENJMNS]

buy a peecee and be happy running office

someone put up an offer for a 13 ultimate and 27" acd both in mint shape and u got it

 

[nebulos]

available: $1200 and up, ~ $1500 and up with (128GB) SSD.

specs

at first glance, i'm not sure why anyone would go with this over the X220, which is cheaper, weighs less, is only a bit thicker, and has way better battery life, ... though the X1 is a bit more elegant.

X1 did end up being much cheaper than most thought.

anyways, fyi.

 

[MacFever]

I actually prefer this over the ASUS x21....which seems overly shiny...lol...

This Thinkpad X1 is still truly a no compromise ultra thin machine...might not be the thinnest one but certainly has all the ports I would ever want...

It's a serious contender in the Ultra Thin category

Apple should add at least these to keep me most of us interested...

USB 3.0 (usb 2.0. is old technology these days and USB 3 ports are backward compatible with 2.0 so what's the hold up on swapping out for these newer faster ports...)

Thunderbolt
SATA III
new LV/ULV CPU

 

[chuckcalo]

I always thought all the Lenovos were huge and ugly, this one looks kind of good..

 

[max90034]

I have a hard time understanding these posts. Challenger?

Does it run OS X?

If not, it's nit a challenger!

One should assume that someone who is interested in a MBA wants to run OS X. Further, if one likes a MBA, it's a fair guess that they've considered the alternatives and decided to go with a Mac.

Comrarative reviews are good for consumer reports, CNET, PC World, etc but hold little worth here IMO.

Why? There is nothing really special about MBA - OS X relationship. I bought 2 MBA (12" and 13") in December. Love them. They both had been booted to OS X may be for 10 hours total together ( mainly to test battery life that was slightly better in OS X than in Win 7). Will buy new MBA as soon as Apple release it and will install Win 7 right away. I switched to MBA after using lenovo x301 for about a year (had t61p and t40p before). X301 was a great laptop. Still prefer MBA.

 

[2IS]

Why? There is nothing really special about MBA - OS X relationship. I bought 2 MBA (12" and 13") in December. Love them. They both had been booted to OS X may be for 10 hours total together ( mainly to test battery life that was slightly better in OS X than in Win 7). Will buy new MBA as soon as Apple release it and will install Win 7 right away. I switched to MBA after using lenovo x301 for about a year (had t61p and t40p before). X301 was a great laptop. Still prefer MBA.

Just an FYI, disabling Aero theme (transparency) in Win7 increases battery life quite substantially.

 

[max90034]

Just an FYI, disabling Aero theme (transparency) in Win7 increases battery life quite substantially.

Thanks. Good to know for long flights. I also bought external battery that works well.