The machine sent to us was the Lenovo X230T (pictured). Interesting because it’s a traditional Windows Tablet PC form-factor with multi-touch capabilities. Available in an i5 version (which is where we’ll be aiming), it seems to tick a number of boxes, on paper at least. Probably the only issue is how well it runs Windows 8, apparently some schools have looked at it previously, and had trouble getting some drivers to work. I’ve been told by a reseller though, that they believe the drivers are due to be updated for Win 8 soon, so I guess we’ll see.
It’s been handed to one of our teachers for a look and the impression has been overall quite positive. The demo model didn’t have an SSD though, which we’d require if we were to buy it.
Whether it turns out to be any good or not, it’s nice to at least have it. It wasn’t easy to get hold of. We were originally told by one reseller that we could have it as soon as another school was finished, only to have that reseller spend weeks trying to track it down as it went from school to school, avoiding us like we had the plague. When push finally came to shove we were told that the particular demo unit had been arranged by another reseller and we couldn’t have it. We contacted said other reseller and had it in our hands within a week.
Needless to say, we won’t be hurrying back to that first reseller anytime soon.
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