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However, the WWAN, bluetooth, tablet buttons and a few others were not found. Not unexpectedly, the bulk of the devices were located and installed by the OS – display, networking etc.
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I started with a clean disk and installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
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My first install of Windows 8 was before Lenovo released their suite of beta drivers. The screen is bright and crisp, and whilst I would love more pixels (it’s only 1366×768) I’ve not been frustrated by lack of screen real estate. The convertible design means its ready for Windows 8 but doesn’t sacrifice that wonderful Lenovo keyboard for when I need to write documentation. It’s quick enough for development and running VMs – something I do a lot of. It’s light, with a small, light power charger. Am I disappointed to have bought ‘too soon’? A little bit, but you can wait forever in this business – something shinier is always around the corner, and I needed something pretty urgently when I bought the x220. Not only that, but I type this the week after the x230 was announced, with Ivy Bridge and other new-tech goodies. If you can reach out to a product specialist for advice I would strongly suggest you do so. Would I recommend the Lenovo web site to purchase it from? Probably not. The end result is a shockingly quick, light and flexible laptop that gives me over six hours of battery life and can comfortably run the battery of virtual machines I use for demo, customer work and testing. What did we ever do before internet search engines? That actually took some digging as well – the Crucial UK site denied the existence of any 7mm SSDs in their range. Step forward my second addition to basic spec – a 512Gb Crucial M4 solid state drive. It turns out that 7mm drives are actually quite hard to find in reasonable capacities, and I quickly learned that the 320 was definitely not fast enough and not really big enough. When I tried to fit the hybrid drive I found that I couldn’t. I had a 750Gb hybrid drive in the Acer that I wanted to use, so I order the x220 with the basic 320Gb drive. Less useful was the discovery that the x220 can only take 7mm drives. Coupled with the dual core with hyper-threading Core-i7 option I chose from Lenovo, this thing is quick and great for VMs. Mine are Corsair, from my local supplier, and it works just great. In fact, it will work quite happily with 16Gb, installed in the form of two 8Gb SODIMMS. If that had been the maximum I could stuff into the system, I would have walked away. Lenovo will only ship the x220 with up to 8Gb of RAM. What I did manage to do was some research before my purchase. The discount more than covered the cost of the extras I added post-purchase.
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However, on the plus side I was lucky enough to get a honking great discount off the final price thanks to lucky timing. This is the one that might well bite me, so be careful! I got the standard screen because nothing I read said I needed anything but that. I think I messed up on this – all the notes said five-point multitouch but Windows reckons I have only two-point. I still don’t understand the screen choices.
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If you’ve landed on this post looking for notes on Windows 8 drivers for the x220, skip to the end. After a couple of months running windows 8 I’m ready to put my thoughts into words. A short while ago I replaced my trusted by heavy Acer laptop with a Lenovo x220 tablet.