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• • Usability
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• • Design
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• • Performance
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Overview

• Pros

  • Excellent build quailty
  • Superb performance
  • Great Lenovo keyboard

• Cons

  • Screen rotates only 180 degrees in one direction
  • Gets a bit hot when stressed
  • No USB 3.0

Quick Take

The X220 Tablet is the best convertible we’ve tested to date, hands down. It blows away the competition in terms of performance and has the sturdiest build of any non-ruggedized tablet.

The ThinkPad X220 Tablet is Lenovo’s latest and greatest convertible laptop. As part of Lenovo’s recent ThinkPad X series refresh that includes the excellent X220 notebook, this Windows 7 tablet features a 12.5-inch display, Wacom digitizer, and Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processor. It’s also a tough son of a gun, passing eight US military testing specifications for notebook-killers like humidity, shock, sand, and temperature extremes.

One look at the pedigree and specs, and you know the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet is good, but is it good enough to justify a starting price of $1,200 at launch? Read this Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet Review to find out.

BUILD & DESIGN

The X220 Tablet’s design does not deviate from the last generation X200 Tablet or the rest of the ThinkPad lineup, stylish Edge series excluded. The X220 Tablet is dressed in all-business black, with a magnesium alloy and plastic build featuring slight texture. The base unit is boxy, but features a slight protrusion on top of the display that serves the X220 Tablet’s wireless antennas, and the six-cell battery that shipped with my review unit adds significant bulge to the back, which provides a nice gripping point when carrying the tablet from meeting to meeting while adding a bit of distinction to a very attractive and professional device.

It’s also a very tough device, and when held, feels like it was carved from a solid hunk of plastic. There is no noticeable flex or creek when held, and Lenovo claims the X220 Tablet passes many mil-spec tests for humidity, temperature, and other harmful elements. While it’s probably not as tough as some of the rugged convertibles we test at TabletPCReview, the X220 Tablet will handle everyday wear-and-tear with no problems.

The screen hinge is particularly tight and well constructed. Unfortunately, it only rotates 180 degrees in one direction, and I accidently attempted to rotate it in the wrong direction more than once. Thankfully, the X220 Tablet shrugged off the attempt and the hinge showed no sign of strain. The display also opens up a full 180 degrees.

Finally, IT departments and tinkerers will be happy to see Lenovo included easy access to the RAM slots and hard drive. The hard drive latch is only secured by one screw and the RAM slots are hidden directly under the main access panel. The review unit we received shipped with a 4GB chip in one slot while the other was vacant.

Screen and Speakers
The X220 Tablet features a 12.5-inch IPS display (1366 x 768) and ships with optional Gorilla glass for increased ruggedness. The display does a good job of shrugging off glare, but it also isn’t exceptionally bright. Office workers will find it perfectly acceptable for indoor use, but its relative dimness make it suitable for only the occasional outdoor excursion.

As with most other touch-enabled screens, there is a very fine but noticeable grain overlaying the display. I’ve heard some users refer to it as a slight haze, which is an apt description. Otherwise, viewing angles are superb and the colors never invert, with about a 10-degree sweet spot in front of the X220 Tablet where brightness and contrast are best. Outside of that zone, the screen appears to dim and contrast lessens.

The display supports up two touch inputs, meaning fingerprints can accumulate quickly. The anti-glare screen does a great job of also shrugging off smudges, but they eventually will build up and have a noticeable and negative effect on the screen. A microfiber cloth is recommended, and thankfully, Lenovo included one with the review unit.

Perhaps I’m spoiled by my iPad 2, but like other convertibles on the market, the Lenovo X220 Tablet does not feature an orientation sensor, which I find disappointing. This means that the screen will not automtically orientate when placed in tablet mode. Users have to manually adjust to landscape or portrait mode via a button under the display that rotates the display 90 degrees when pressed.

(Update 5/13/11: Some very knowledgeable TabletPCReview forum members pointed out that the X220 Tablet does feature an active orientation mode, and the setting is available in the SimpeTap settings.)

The X220 Tablet ships with a pressure-sensitive Wacom pen. Because it’s Wacom, the pen does not require a battery, and the pen features one button on the grip and a eraser nub at the end. It’s very light and just long enough to rest comfortably in my hand when inking.

The pen slots directly into the X220 Tablet when not in use and the display registers the pen curser when the pen floats upwards of three or four centimeters about it. I found the pen to be highly accurate with no lag following calibration. Excessively fast scribbling will throw it off a few millimeters, at which point a quick manual calibration is required to right the ship.

The pressure tip is not nearly as severe as the one found on the Fujitsu LifeBook T580’s N-trig pen. The X220 Tablet will register even the lightest strokes, and heavier strokes result in only a slightly thicker line. Of the two, the N-trig pen is definitely more suitable for artists and designers, and I’ll take this Wacom offering for my every day inking needs.

Touch sensitivity is also acceptable though does not match the fluid experience found on the iPad or rival Android tablets. The X220 Tablet supports up to two inputs, which works well for pinch-to-zoom and other gestures including a series of flick-based shortcuts. Lenovo also applied the SimpleTap OS skin that calls up a customizable set of shortcuts, each represented by a large, tap friendly icon. Users can change common settings and call up favorite programs through SimpleTap, or simply ignore it. I found it useful, but recommend sticking with the pen or touchpad for most X220 Tablet navigation given the precision required with Windows 7.

The speakers do a suitable job of spitting out sound, though didn’t wow with volume or fidelity. They are fine for personal use, be it a webcast or video call, but business users will have trouble filling up a larger conference with sound come meeting time. I do like their placement on the display as they direct sound at the user both in laptop and tablet mode, which is preferable to the X220 notebook’s speaker placement on the lower front edge.

Our review unit of the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet features the following specifications:

• Intel Core i5-2520M dual-core processor (2.5GHz, 3MB cache)
• Windows7 Professional (64-bit)
• 12.5-inch HD (1366 x 768) Display (IPS), two-finger multitouch/5 finger gesture and active pen input
• Intel Integrated HD Graphics
• 4GB DDR3 (1333MHz)
• 320GB Seagate Momentus Thin hard drive, 5400rpm
• Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 (Kilmer Peak) 2×2 AGN wireless card
• 720p HighDefinition webcam
• Fingerprint reader
• Display Port, 3 USB 2.0 port (1 Always On port)
• 6-cell battery and optional slice battery
• Dimensions: 12 (L) x 9 (W) x 1.05 – 1.23 (H) inches
• Weight: 3.99 pounds with 6-cell battery
• Price as configured: $1,569.00 (starting at $1,199.00)
  

Update (2020-05-18): I’ve since switched to a more powerful desktop computer for my photography business. I still use the X220 as a dedicated machine to connect with Zwift, a social cycling app. 🚴

My personal machine is a 8-year-old Lenovo ThinkPad X220 running Ubuntu 18.04 with i3wm.

It does not have a single USB-C port. It sports a 1366x768 TN display panel (in case you’re wondering, you can see each individual pixel with your bare eyes). The battery life of the 4-cell battery is horrendous (I barely get 2 hours out of this thing). The trackpad is so small, one could even wonder if it’s a trackpad for ants (no need to say that I never use it). The Wi-Fi card only supports 2.4GHz networks, so hopes for blazingly fast Wi-Fi are to be pushed aside. There’s even a bit of gaffer tape on the bottom left corner of the body to hold the cracked plastic together.

At my day job, I’m lucky enough to work on a top-spec MacBook Pro provided by my employer. It has a glorious Retina display, 16GB of RAM, a modern Core i7 CPU, and a huge trackpad to boot. All in all, it’s a pretty fancy machine, one that many people would love to use as a daily driver.

I mean, let’s just compare the trackpads for a second. It’s almost funny at that point.

Surprisingly though, out of the two laptops, my favourite is not the MacBook Pro. When I’m at home, I tuck the aluminium slab away and take out the magnesium brick that is the ThinkPad X220.

It’s not pretty. It’s not particularly fast. But it does everything I need, and it’s always ready for everything I throw at it. Could it be a bit of nostalgia for old school hardware? Maybe.

I strongly believe a Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is still a terrific laptop to use in 2019 and beyond. It’s not for everyone, but the X220 definitely sparks joy. Plus, its accessible price point makes it almost impossible to ignore. I got mine second-hand (third-hand? fourth-hand? I don’t even know) in great condition for less than 200$ in Canada.

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In practical terms: the X220 plays 1080p videos from YouTube wonderfully, renders Portal 2 quite happily (albeit with lower graphics quality than what you may usually enjoy on higher-end machines), and is a perfect machine to dual boot Windows on for maximum value. I spend most of my time in a Web browser or CLI tools, so it’s not like I’m running complex simulations, but still.

The X220, just like any other classic ThinkPad, is extensible, sturdy, reliable, and provides everything I could ask for in a laptop.

Extensibility

The classic ThinkPad laptops have “extensibility” written all over them. Most components are user-replaceable. In “ship of Thesus” fashion, if you individually replace every single component of the X220 one at a time, is it still the same X220?

Seriously though, just look at this list:

• User-replaceable display
• User-replaceable wireless card
• User-replaceable keyboard
• User-replaceable RAM
• User-replaceable battery
• User-replaceable 2.5” storage and mSATA

That’s a list many laptop owners can only dream of. Laptops are increasingly shut tight deliberately, preventing users from fixing and/or upgrading their devices themselves. Not with a classic ThinkPad though.

I previously owned a ThinkPad X230, which many consider to be part of the last generation of “classic” ThinkPads. Multiple components of that X230 had been upgraded: IPS display, SSD storage, additional RAM, backlit keyboard in my native language, new 9-cell battery, etc. It was a dream machine, and the X220, just like other classic ThinkPads, offers the same extensibility and user-friendly servicing. I eventually bricked the X230 by spilling water in the underside RAM slot (weird accident, don’t ask).

After bricking the X230, I purchased a second-hand ThinkPad X250 on eBay, only to sell it a few weeks later as it’s a huge step backwards compared to the X220/X230: there’s only one user-accessible RAM slot in the X250 (instead of two). The rest of the RAM is soldered to the board. The keyboard is user-replaceable, but to do so you need to take the entire computer apart (instead of just replacing the keyboard directly as with the X220/X230). Like, what? Who thought that was a good idea?

Compatibility

Being a 2011 laptop, it also features various ports that some modern laptops users may only have heard of. At work, where everyone uses a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro, it’s like some sort of utopia where everything is wireless, and we don’t ever need to use the USB-C ports for anything other than charging the laptops or connecting to a giant 4K display.

In the real world, however, you’d need a handful of adapters with a MacBook Pro to connect to the rest of the world. The X220 provides everything you could practically ask for here:

• USB-A ports (3 of them!)
• SD card slot
• Digital video out (DisplayPort)
• Analog video out (good old VGA)
• Ethernet port
• Kensington lock

Plus, there are other goodies about this machine:

• 7-row keyboard
• Visual status indicators (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, battery, storage I/O)
• Physical Wi-Fi killswitch
• ThinkLight above the screen for late-night hacking sessions

Reliability

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I like to think that a classic ThinkPad is akin to a Toyota Corolla, one of the most (if not the most) reliable production cars ever produced. Give it a good and thorough clean up once a year, change the oil at regular intervals, keep your software up-to-date, and you’ll enjoy this machine for a long time.

Classic ThinkPads just feel like business. They won’t let you down. The /r/thinkpad sub-reddit is full of classic ThinkPads (some of them I would even call “retro” instead of “classic”), and these things just keep on running, decades after the initial release date.

The laptop’s shell is made out of magnesium instead of plastic, making it extra sturdy. The keyboard feels great. Not your typical cheap keyboard from your run-of-the-mill HP laptop. The display hinges are solid.

Again, going back to the X250 I used for a couple of weeks: it felt cheap compared to the X220/X230. The shell was made out of plastic, the display seemed fragile, and the trackpoint buttons felt flimsy. Not a great experience coming from a X230.

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That’s when I knew I’d go for the X220, and stay for a while.

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If you’re looking to purchase a second-hand classic ThinkPad, do it. Buy the thing. Slap GNU/Linux distribution on there (or *BSD, if you’re into that sort of thing), and have fun.