I'm sorry but that is not the case with the x60 according to securedoc's tech 
support.
I tested it personally myself. The x60 is not a supported model. The x41 was 
presumably,
considering that it was in the list of supported tablets. I tried
the x41 configuration and it did not work without the physical keyboard. I asked
tech support and this is what they said.

> Hello Robin,
> 
> The current builds of SecureDoc do not support the Lenovo x60 tablet onscreen 
> keyboard
> at preboot.  It is possible however, with integration work, that we could 
> support this
> functionality.  Depending on the size of the project integration costs may 
> even waived.
> To find out more about integration please contact your sales representative.
> 
...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joel Drechsler Support Engineer
> 
> WinMagic Inc. 200 Matheson Blvd. West, Suite 201 Mississauga, Ontario L5R 3L7 
> Canada

(BTW he
Brian Garner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> SecureDoc supports Tablet PC's from a host of manufacturers including IBM.   
> At
> Pre-Boot, you can log into the machine without connecting an external 
> keyboard.
> SecureDoc also supports multi-factor authentication on tablet PC's using 
> tokens,
> smartcards, bio-metric devices as well as PKCS certificates.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian Garner Professional Services, WinMagic Inc.
> 
> Phone: 905.502.7000 x238 Fax: 905.502.7001 Toll Free: 1.888.879.5879 Email:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> On Jul 25, 9:13 am, robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I found out the hard way that tablets and fde are not a good combo. We would 
>> like to
>> use pre-boot authentication with a password on tablets
> in
>> tablet mode (no keyboard). Ideally this would not involve
> fingerprints.
>> if we HAVE to I guess we could use usb tokens. I am finding that this
> is
>> not a piece of cake and it may be that there is NO product in
> existence
>> that can handle the scenario of entering the id/password via a screen 
>> keyboard. Is
>> there?
>> 
>> The possible choices for laptops are gateway m285e and lenovo x60. (No 
>> levono does
>> NOT provide fde in the "client security center" as they apparently did in 
>> the x41
>> despite being incorrectly told that they do
> by
>> a sales rep. They say that it can be done with an additional product from 
>> utimaco but
>> I can't find anything that describes how that works anywhere. If how it 
>> works is via
>> the fingerprint reader then forget that. [I personally have never been able 
>> to get my
>> fingerprints to
> pass
>> one of those on any vendor's model so I'm definitely not going to try
> to
>> get users to do it over the phone.)If it works via usb smart card then
> I
>> guess we have to deal with the losing tokens scenario which I'd really 
>> rather not
>> deal with :-( _______________________________________________ FDE mailing 
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