Hi Luc; What your asking for is the exact setup that I use daily.
I've always been a ThinkPad guy and the x220 Tablet model with active touchscreen is in a word; Awesome. The laptop design alone has so many hidden features that the average Dell/Asus/Gateway/etc user would never get - because a Lenovo laptop is really in a class all its own. For instance; who designs a laptop keyboard whose physical keys ride above hidden gutters beneath the keys edges. Should you spill a drink (coffee or soda) over the keyboard - the liquid would fall between the keys and be collected by the gutter system and routed around & through designated ducting outlets to the bottom of the laptop. Brilliant! There's video to show it in operation. Who builds in 3-axis accelerometers in their laptops that can detect a potential fall and instantly park the hard-drive head and pause the OS, or use it for spatial awareness? Lenovo. These and so many other things set their laptops apart. YES, you do pay more for them, but these aren't 'Chevy's'. They have special coatings, magnesium chassis, no plastic, on and on. There's even a sweet model ($$$) that has a second monitor that slides out from behind the main monitor. OK, so you can tell I'm a big Lenovo fan. However, they like many companies, have wanted to get that main stream market too and have started building "consumer grade" junk - so buyer beware. With my unit, I have removed the hard-drive and installed a SSD (solid state drive). These are just now becoming more popular, but they're still expensive. However, the Windows 7 Pro with a butt-load of drivers initiating at start-up with the hard drive would take nearly 2.5 minutes from a cold start. With SSD - 20 seconds. That's not just a desktop showing - that's apps loaded and this baby ready to perform. Hard drive heat... gone, battery drain from heavy drive usage... gone! Weight & sound... nill! I can't tell you what laptop luxury is - but it's sweet. Like you mentioned, it's a laptop - full blown with all the comforts of a perfect system. Yeap... docking station too. Literally set it down and Click! - its like a desktop. All peripherals plugged in and instantly accessible. DVD drive, printers, remote monitor, WiFi antenna with 30db gain, USB hubs, etc - all connected in a snap. It charges the battery while docked and can lock the laptop to itself - you use a key to lock & remove. Actually, it charges the laptop battery And an additional battery simultaneously. When its time to go do some field work - click and I'm off. Speaking of batteries, I too have 1 of the standard batteries and two of the larger celled units. My setup with the larger battery can run just about 7 hours with heavy use. The smaller battery about 4-5 hours. With light use... who knows... it's my workhorse. When in the field - I convert to the tablet mode - again awesome... don't get me started. It does what people believe to be a iPad using my fingers but with SO MUCH more horsepower. Then I'll pop out it's pen and start transcribing notes - and because of the power, you don't need to stop and wait for the OCR to catch up - just write like on paper on its there. Even with my hieroglyphics, it might only miss a word or two. Considering my script or printed text - that's fantastic. I even get die-hard Apple business acquaintances - say that it's pretty cool. I wear a strap around my neck and my tablet becomes a walking mobile notes desk. I use this mode to proof & inspect job sites showing scaled drawings that I actually "digitally", write note upon. My notes and symbols are automatically categorized into an Excel spreadsheet for report regeneration and data migration later back at my office site. I might walk a job for hours with Dragon dictate running, pdf markup app running, Excel opened, Evernote opened and actively syncing, music files playing, etc, AND MLO at the same time. The SSD really makes this possible in this instance. I really 'tried' to crash it when I first put this laptop together - but couldn't. It's powerful and robust! I can NEVER go back to a standard sub-grade laptop system again. If you shop it right- you can get into this level of performance in about the $2000.00 dollar range - depending on how you build it and what 'extra' stuff you want on it; SSD, more memory, touch screen options, built-in mobile phone, peripherals, etc. All I can tell you from my experience and that of other (different higher end Lenovo model) owners is that these laptops are truly business class (and even military spec'd) systems. Nothing compares. You open this baby up and you can instantly see quality. Don't buy a laptop from the big box stores - those aren't the same - get them directly from Lenovo website. Geez, I'd better step down off this soapbox. My apologies to the MLO board for my ranting. Guess I get a little excited with a product that actually performs - as compared to the thousands of dollars I've wasted on junk through the years... (though the Toshiba Satellite series wasn't too bad for consumer grade). MLO is a awesome program and Android phone app combination - along with the cloud sync service. Again, I was looking for a task system that is bullet proof / industrial grade - not just something to remind me to "pick up milk", like all the other (again consumer friendly) task based progs/apps out there. MLO IS the "goto" system. Heck, even I don't fully use all its capabilities. If you're looking for cute & colorful - then you're at the wrong site. If you need context based, project driven, task management - then you are exactly where you need to be. Anyway, I hope this works for you. My system/setup has completely changed the way I now operate. Efficiency is 10 to the X fold. I'm certain no other setup could do this. I would however, Love to see the Android OS grow to see a office main stream and give ol' Bill Gates an even greater wake up call. For me, running a memory/resource hog like AutoCAD on a Android tablet with wireless user input controls would be F!@#KING INCREDIBLE!!! I'm curious to see what Windows 8 will bring to the tablet arena. Regards, John On Mar 28, 3:05 pm, Luc Poitras <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > Before I start, I just want to say: "Bear with me". > And let me just say this! I'm sure that there are lots of people here who > read the emails in this forum, who are passionate about using mlo, who see > it's great potential, and who have great ideas that they sometimes would like > to share...but don't because they can't compete with the "knowledge", the > "experience" of some of you here, or the fact that english is not there first > and main language (like me for example; I speak french)... or wathever other > reasons you might think of. > > So here goes, bear with me! > > I am trying to find, for a long time now, the best tools, or layout, to be > able to use mlo everywhere (home, office, on the road, etc) and always being > able to use it in windows environnement: I just want to be able to use the > full capacity of mlo, and that, everywhere I may be!!! > I've tried mlo on iphone, and tried mlo on ipad, and tried mlo with parralels > on my Mac 27 inch (still use parralels on Mac, but dropped mlo for iphone and > ipad cause feels for me too limited, compared to mlo in windows!) > That being said, I want to share with you what I think would be the best way, > in my own opinion, to use mlo with windows, in all "circonstances". > > I just had a long talk with somebody I know who manages and owns in my region > (Canada's National Capital) a relatively big company who sells computers and > software to public and govermental firms. I was explaining my needs to him, > and was telling him I was considering buying a tablet with windows > environnement. > Tablet because: > - it's portable, and don't necessarily see myself transporting a laptop > everywhere I go; > - because it would be kind of having an Ipad... with windows on it; > - and for a couple of other reasons. > > So to get to my point here (sorry guys it takes so long) we came up with an > interesting layout, considering that windows base tablets don't take much > market place yet! > > So...Not cheap but interesting layout: > > Using the Lenovo Thinkpad x220 tablet. (there's a laptop x220 and a tablet > x220). The tablet x220 is like the best of both worlds (laptop vs tablet). > > So here is my scenario: > - At my desktop at home, I would clip my x220 tablet on the Lenovo dock (sold > separately) so to work in mlo on my big screen; > - On the road, I unclip from the dock my x220 and it becomes my tablet I've > always wanted; let's say I'm waiting at the dentist, I can still use the full > capacities of mlo no problem; > - X220 tablet is touchscreen... obviously; > - If I'm in my living room and want to work in mlo, I can just transform my > tablet into a laptop by turning the screen around. > > ...Am on a cloud right now because I can see all the ease of use of this > layout, and for me, ease of use takes a large part in the decisions I make! > > So, what do you think? > Any other layouts you think would fit my needs (full mlo capabilities > everywhere!) > Now, don't blow my bubble here! (just kidding!) > > Sincerely yours! > Luc > > Envoyé de mon iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
