Lenovo Laptop quality Worse than Expected

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After years of near-flawless use I finally had to replace my HP TC1100 tablet PC with a new one that had more power, memory, and video processing ability. I am rather uncomfortable using trackpads so there was a limited selection of Tablet PCs that I could get with the "joystick" in the keyboard. It was down to a Fujitsu and a Lenovo x200 tablet and I decided on the Lenovo after finding a great deal on it.

After about 10 days of working on it I can mention lots of benefits and features that I like and lots that I don't like. But right now I have a specific complaint and comparison. I used the same TC1100 very intensely for over three years and I never had any issues...I could still use it now except that I wouldn't be able to run these Mathematica analyses on it in real time. I've had this Lenovo for 10 days and I've already got a dead pixel. As I already mentioned I've got plenty of design flaws and bad usage decisions that I could comment on, but this is just plain indisputable suckage. Dead pixel in ten days...that's the reputation that they've now got with me and what everybody I know will hear. My next tablet will certainly not be a Lenovo and I'll get it as soon as somebody makes something real close to the TC1100...or sooner.


Abode falls behind itself

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I've currently got two complaints for Adobe, both related to them falling behind themselves in producing useful tools which would directly benefit Adobe. The first (and most aggregious) is the lack of a x64 Flash player. WTF. x64 computers are hardly new anymore, and neither are x64 web browsers anymore. So I've got three computers that all run x64 bit and all run x64 Firefox (Shiretoko) and I can't see any Flash content ever. I used to use the x32 Firefox, but the most updated version crashes too often and the x64 doesn't so that's that. What the hell are they waiting for.

The second complaint has to do Adobe Acrobat. I use it to do presentations and I use a tablet PC. It would be great to be able to draw directly on the screen during the presentation. But they don't allow this easily. Without a hotkey for the pen tool I can't access it while in full screen. There doesn't seem to be a way for me to assign my own hotkey either. And though I can use ctrl+D to cycle through the comment tools and get to the pen, that's hardly convenient and the pen marks don't show up on the screen until you stop marking...you can't see the line as it's being drawn. Lame.

Adobe really needs to fix these obvious missing features. The x64 issue came up 3 years ago, and the lack of pen tool usage in full screen mode has been a problem for 5 or 6 years. What are they waiting for? Just do it already. You're only helping yourselves by resolving these issues as soon as possible.


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