Is this new CPU speed something they are going to offer soon (and possibly others like Toshiba has with 2.8+GHz?)

There are two reasons I have not taken Lenovo more seriously,

-No options for the highest CPU speed available and the
-Lack of a “touch pad” for mouse input.

I am an engineer and am looking for a Tablet for crunching numbers while at the same time for hand annotating lab reports, drawings, schematic’s, etc.

BTW I would do anything for a larger and higher res screen than the 12″ 1280×768 stuff out there. I want a 15+” 1600×1200 screen for doing cad and simulation work while also being able to annotate things with the precision and ease of the Wacom pen input.

Now that would be the ultimate. Who cares if it is a little bulkier. People carry 15″ laptops around all day and don’t complain. I think the marketing guys have it all wrong and they have a very limited understanding of those of us in the engineering world who would know what to do with such a product- get results- and fast! After all pen on paper is the fastest thing an engineer can do to capture his ideas, etc. But then he is relegated to the clumsy interface of the mouse to translate it into something the computer can use- or scanning it in which is just apicutre and still takes a significant amount of time- when he gets around to it- if ever…

This thing should be marketed (among other things) for it’s ability to enhance an engineers productivity in his research and lab work that all used to be done in lab notebooks… so arcane!

I can even find my research, 6 years now after I started using a tablet pc- since the Tablet Pc made going to paperless all the more easy to do. It has easily preserved 100′s of thousands of dollars in research- by making it readily accessible- instead of the file cabinet with it’s arcane paper and antiquated filing system. Now that is what you call a statement of justification.

I am looking at the Lenovo site for Canada and it still shows that the “ThinkPad X200 Tablet with Multi-Touch Screen” is only available with ” 12.1″ WideView MultiTouch + MultiView LED backlit WXGA panel”.

MultiTouch + MultiView – 1 finger input – $ 1990 USD -old & bad
Enhanced MultiTouch – 2 finger input – $ 1689 USD -New better

This is just a stupid business model. What makes is even more stupid is that both are manufactured at the same location in China.

But inking is vital to the X200 as a convertible tablet, so you go with Wacom even though their driver/firmware is less mature and doesn’t support as many fingers yet. My question is: how similar is the Wacom capacitive implementation to other capacitive digitizers on the market?
1. is the screen “hard” glass like the XT, Touchsmart, iPhone, etc.?
2. is this actually 2 digitizers switching on/off depending on pen detection, like previous active/passive Wacom solutions for the X60t and X61t?
3. Is the stylus pressure sensitivity coming from a spring-loaded pen tip like in Wacom’s active digitizer, or is it purely capacitive?

I just hope they are getting getting rid of the non-glass, friction-rich, scratchable, grid-dotted resistive surface of the previous X60t and X61t “multitouch” models (I have one). If so I’d seriously consider an upgrade.

Word is that it’s only 15 levels for the pen. I can live with 256 levels, but 15 would be outright unbearable and not make much sense just to add multi-touch.

After fits and starts i’m hopping that the multitouch (Wacom apparently) is possibly ready for primetime.

We shall see.

As JK has pointed out it’s futile trying to find a use for new tech when it’s probably a better idea to start with a need then proceed forward.

(unfortunately i’m getting one just cuz it’s cool) : )