Comments on: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 review

By: Sean Millon

Sean Millon — Mon, 06 May 2013 09:48:00 +0000

Who uses iPads for “enterprise” purposes…?

By: Sean Millon

Sean Millon — Mon, 06 May 2013 09:46:00 +0000

To be fair, the screen came as a bit of surprise to me. That said, I’ve used one and I practically forgot it was just 768p.

By: Geoff Coupe

Geoff Coupe — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:11:00 +0000

USB sticks are not a problem, neither are powered external HDDs and DVD drives. What is a problem in some cases is that the USB port cannot provide enough power to deal with some unpowered HDD and DVD drives.

By: Cory Gunther

Cory Gunther — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:03:00 +0000

Great point and no, no it can’t. I have a WD MyPassport USB 2.0 external 1TB drive and all I get is the LED light. Not enough power to get er going.

By: wasapasserby

wasapasserby — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:03:00 +0000

I read this on other reviews — have you been able to read/write off external HDDs and usb sticks?

By: Joe Louis

Joe Louis — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:46:00 +0000

I am a huge Lenovo fan and have been for the last three years; returning to them from the other OEMs. Their detail to quality and durability is what turned me around. My experience with ordering, obtaining, and using THIS product may turn me away again.

I ordered two of the Tablet 2′s because I was anxious to see Win8 in a touch/swipe screen mode. It finally arrived a few _months_ later (they delayed the release “to get it right”). Strike ONE!

One of my complaints about this is the lack of availability of accessories. Everything is delayed (several weeks out), including my keyboards, which are not very well engineered. While it may “snap” in place during use, the logic of not making this part of a protective case totally escapes me. This is what the previous Thinkpad Tablet did! Anyone that moved around with an iPad has that very thing; a protective case that unfolds to a keyboard. That’s been one of the major success factors of iPads in an enterprise role. In my opinion, this is a HUGE miss on Lenovo’s part. CHECKED SWING!

There is also a bug in this device that causes the screen to do dark, not wake from sleep, reboot (assumed the Win8 version of a BSOD), or require a power off and power on to recovery. There’s quite a few theories on the support boards about the cause but nothing concrete from Lenovo.

In call fairness, I will say that when this is operating, I forget the other misgivings. But rebooting mid-meeting kind of makes the global recommendation to the corporation kind of hard to justify; especially when the bean counters are working well in the same meeting with their iPads. Lenovo isnt doing them or Microsoft any favors with this roll out.

By: yahoojusnit

yahoojusnit — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:51:00 +0000

For 13 consecutive quarters, Lenovo has been the fastest growing major PC company. As you search the web, pay attention to all of the other websites “promoting” Lenovo products as CES 2013 award winners. Stop being an uninformed fanboy.

By: yahoojusnit

yahoojusnit — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:49:00 +0000

HONG KONG, January 30, 2013 – Lenovo Group today reported results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2012. In its best quarter ever, Lenovo continued to outgrow the market in all geographies with record sales, pre-tax income and earnings.
Best quarter ever? How DO they stay in business?

By: Geoff Coupe

Geoff Coupe — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:06:00 +0000

I’m very happy with mine – but I think that the review should have pointed out that the USB port, whilst sticking within the USB 2.0 spec, cannot power some USB devices.

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:49:00 +0000

If you compare it to the competitors then you should know why they are staying in business, and in fact just behind HP in sales. This is a fantastic device, perhaps it’s not your cup of tea, it sure is mine!

By: Ikarus

Ikarus — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:22:00 +0000

Lousy screen, lousy processor. Fans of Lenovo just ignore such things. For my part, I don’t know how they stay in business.
Also, was this a review or an advertisement?

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:40:00 +0000

We have a few of these at work, and they are really fantastic devices. In general use it has been faultless. When you install resource hungry apps (for example Visual Studio 2012), you do notice quite a reduction in speed against i5 tablets, but then again it’s a lot cheaper. The build is really great. We also have Dell’s latest atom tablet which looks like an iPad and is heavier than the lenovo (and we run them side by side, lenovo felt a lot smoother). The screen is not quite as good as some (Samsung, dell) but above average (brightness, colours). For the price, this thing is awesome! Windows Pro in such a light device! The performance jump over previous ATOM chips is substantial. This performs more like an low voltage i3 now.

By: AmiRami

AmiRami — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:16:00 +0000

I think Lenovo did their usual fantastic job with this. I really do consider them the windows version of Apple or Samsung/Android. Having said that, I just don’t have a lot of confidence in ATOM. I want a chipset that can match not only ARM processing power but also graphics performance and be able to run most x86 legacy windows apps. I don’t think Clovertrail is quite there yet. Maybe Haswell or Baytrail?