mority wrote:AgenT, do you know whether the X61 will have higher resolution displays?
I did research on this and here is what I found. Please note that this is from memory and may be a little off.
Lenovo is trying to phase out the 1024x768 resolution from all of its non-ultraportable laptops. In fact, they are trying to do away with the normal screen dimensions and produce widescreen laptops. As you may already be aware of, there are now three lines of the X products. X60, X60s and X60t. The first two, X60 and X60s, differ only in CPU type, where the s stands for "slim" and uses a specially made CPU by Intel that uses less electricity and should give better battery life and less heat. However, I have read that some people are having heat problems with their X60s laptops. The X60t is the tablet version of the X60. This laptop has a higher resolution than the X60. The new X61 and X61s should have the normal 1024x768 resolution and there is no indication that there will be an option for something higher. This is unfortunate because the tablet version does show that the X60 can indeed have a different screen resolution. Yet this option is only available on the X60t. Maybe this will change for the X61 line, but that is doubtful and there was mention by one Lenovo person that it will not change.
The T60 line is going to see the biggest change. Starting from the T61 laptop (and all of it's variants), the option for a standard screen with 1024x768 resolution will not longer be available. And if I remember correctly, only one option will have the standard screen size, with the rest of the options all being different resolutions based on the widescreen.
The Z series of laptops are being discontinued. This makes sense because the Z series was the widescreen edition.
As to my personal preference: the X series laptop screen is already small enough and a larger resolution would just make everything that much harder to see. I also like the standard screen, because it gives more height-room than the equivalent widescreen. Hight room is more important than width for text editing, whether that be email, documents or coding. Especially coding as lines of code are usually not very wide across even 1024x768 screens. Then again, vertical split screen is more doable on widescreen.
All of this information comes from Lenovo, but not in any official form. And it does come from multiple people at Lenovo. Supposedly there should be an official announcement about these plans sometime in the next month or so.
Of course, things may change between now and the official announcement.
