- #Lenovo helix generation 1keyboard disassembly 64 Bit
- #Lenovo helix generation 1keyboard disassembly full
- #Lenovo helix generation 1keyboard disassembly plus
At those prices, Lenovo has likely lost quite a few potential buyers. Unfortunately the price has risen from the $1,500 we heard at CES and the ThinkPad Helix starts at $1,679 and goes up to $2,200. It's available with 128, 180 and 256 gig SSD drives. The Helix runs on Intel Core i5 and i7 ULV CPUs with Intel HD 4000 graphics and 4 or 8 gigs of RAM. Most models come with a Wacom digitizer and pen, putting it in a small category of Windows 8 tablets that are well suited to graphic artists, note takers and vertical market fields like the medical and automotive industries who need a precise pen.
#Lenovo helix generation 1keyboard disassembly 64 Bit
The ThinkPad Helix is an 11.6" Windows 8 64 bit tablet with bundled keyboard dock. Sorry, there's no keyboard backlight as with the Asus Transformer Book that's a relative rarity on a transformer style Windows 8 convertible. It has an excellent ThinkPad keyboard, a very good trackpad and a secondary battery. This is no dinky accessory keyboard it truly transforms the Lenovo Helix into an Ultrabook. As with the Asus Transformer Book TX300, I'm hard pressed to call it a dock when the bottom half looks and feels just like a laptop's bottom section.
#Lenovo helix generation 1keyboard disassembly plus
Happily the ThinkPad Helix fights back with respectable battery life of 5 hours for the tablet and 7.5-9 hours for the tablet plus dock. Haswell isn't appreciably faster than Ivy Bridge, but Haswell does bring battery life improvements.
#Lenovo helix generation 1keyboard disassembly full
That's not a death sentence for this lovely ThinkPad, since it's still uniquely positioned as a full Intel Core tablet that works equally as well as a laptop, and it has a fairly uncommon but valuable feature: an active Wacom digitizer with pen. Now that it's finally here, I myself wonder if I'm more in love with the idea of the Helix, than the Helix itself. Last year's 11.6" convertibles didn't meet with lots of love, and now it seems that the more widely accepted 13.3" might be the sweet spot for 2013-2014 transformers and convertibles. But now tech aficionados' minds are on Intel fourth generation Haswell-based convertibles and laptops and the Helix is frozen in January 2013 running third generation Ivy Bridge CPUs. Does that mean the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix isn't an innovative product? No. We take them for granted and we're already looking for the next big thing.
Now that it and competing products like the Asus Transformer Book TX300 have become a part of our mind set, they seem a tad less shiny when they finally appear. At CES in January of this year when we did our Helix first look, it was a strikingly innovative product. In Chief (twitter: been a long wait, but the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix is finally here! Honestly, I think companies would do better if they didn't announce really hot new products a half year before they're available (Asus is also guilty of this).
Fan skirt tends to catch on laptop bags when inserted. What's Not: Uses outgoing 3rd gen Intel Core Ivy Bridge rather than Haswell CPUs, very expensive (though prices seem to be dropping). What's Hot: Good performance, sharp full HD IPS display, Wacom digitizer with pen, works equally as well as a tablet or laptop, very good keyboard. Lenovo ThinkPad Helix Editor's rating (1-5): Home > Windows Tablet Reviews & Notebook Reviews > Lenovo ThinkPad Helix
0 kommentar(er)
