Features
In a nod to corporate buyers who may be purchasing a fleet of laptops, the ThinkPad X41 tablet features the same start-up software as some other ThinkPads. Major components and software are expected to remain unchanged for at least a year to help with long-term deployments, and when you're ready to upgrade, Lenovo will recycle your old equipment. In addition, the X41 tablet's security is every bit as good as its traditional counterpart. The TPM-based encryption hardware can protect data on the hard drive, and a fingerprint reader helps with authentication on the road or consolidates a user's passwords into one swipe of the finger.
Performance
The ThinkPad X41 tablet features midrange components that prioritise battery life over performance. Our test unit included a 1.5GHz Pentium M processor, a sluggish, 4,200rpm hard drive with a 40GB capacity and 512MB of quick 400MHz memory. It's no surprise, then, that the X41 tablet scored in the middle of the tablet pack in our mobile benchmark tests. The X41 tablet lagged about 20 per cent behind the HP Compaq tc4200, which relies on a faster, 1.8GHz Pentium M processor and a speedy, 5,400rpm hard drive, but it scored significantly higher than the 1.6GHz Athlon XP processor in the Averatec C3500.
The ThinkPad X41 tablet ships with your choice of batteries: a light four-cell battery or the heavier but more powerful eight-cell battery. In our drain tests, the eight-cell battery pack lasted a remarkable 5 hours, 25 minutes, more than twice as long as the Averatec C3500's similarly sized cell and half an hour longer than the slightly smaller battery in the HP Compaq tc4200. We feel certain that with some judicious battery management, the X41 tablet will yield a full day of stop-and-go computing.
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
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BAPCo MobileMark 2002 performance rating |
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
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BAPCo MobileMark 2002 battery life in minutes |
System configurations:
Averatec C3500
Windows XP Home; Athlon XP-M 2200+1.67GHz; 512MB DDR SDRAM; ATI Radeon IGP 320M 64MB; Fujitsu MHT2060AT 60GB 4,200rpm
HP tc4200
Windows XP Tablet 2005; 1.8GHz Intel Pentium M 745; 512MB DDR SDRAM; Intel 915GM 128MB; Toshiba MK6026GAX 60GB 5,400rpm
ThinkPad X41 tablet
Windows XP Tablet 2005; 1.5GHz Intel Pentium M 758; 512MB DDR2 SDRAM; Intel 915GM/GMS 96MB; Hitachi Travelstar C4K60 40GB 4,200rpm
Edited by Michelle Thatcher
Additional editing by Nick Hide
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