Thinkpad X60

First impressions with (ex-IBM) Lenovo Thinkpad X60s.

• The machine is much lighter than my old X31. The docs. say it's 1.35 kg. That's probably with the power adapter, since I weighed it at 1.275 kg. (23% less than my 1.66 kg. X31).
• The power plug is non-standard. Instead of the usual barrel connector, it uses a propietary cylindrical connector with a pin inside. And the voltage is 20 VDC. So if you loose the AC adaptor, the chance of being able to use some other one instead while you get a replacement are about zero.
• The battery is different from the X31 batteries.
• After the initial install, comes the first bad surprise: the machine is over-loaded with software that keeps jumping at you with windows to encourage you to whatever... It goes so far as to prevent access to the standard Windows defragmenter. When you select a drive to defragment, Diskeeper Lite jumps at you, asks you to agree to some license or something, offers a helpful link to let you buy the full version, and finally fails to defragment with some obscure error!

To be continued...

... A year and a half later...: It turns out I never continued this review, but I hear the machine is still doing it's job. As is my own soon-5-years-old X31. If you are really still interested in a review of this old model, there is one here.