![]() ![]() However, the motions-pinching, zooming, and rotating-were easy to master, and on-screen images resized themselves in a fluid, non-jerky way. When pinching and zooming Web pages, for instance, it was easy to accidentally tap and open a link with one of our fingers. While we've criticized other multitouch tablets, such as the HP TouchSmart tx2z, for not being responsive enough, the XT2's display was, at times, too sensitive. By default, the display will recognize both finger and stylus input, but you can go into the N-trig Pen and Touch Settings to opt for either touch or pen input only. In addition to single-finger scrolling, you can rotate objects, tap with two fingers to launch applications, and pinch and zoom documents and Web pages. The XT2's LAPTOP Battery Efficiency Rating (the total amount of watts it takes to charge divided by battery life) of 22.4 is about average (22.2).Ĭlick to enlargeWhile the original XT shipped with a capacitive touch display that allowed users to use one finger at a time (think scrolling and swiping), the XT2 has a multitouch panel, which means you can make gestures with multiple fingers at the same time. Other ultraportables we've tested have ranged from 17 (the Samsung X360) to 21 (the most recent MacBook Air). The XT2 earned an EPEAT rating of 21 out of 28, which is good for a machine this size. The XT2 also has Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, which you'll appreciate if you like taking wireless mice on the road. ![]() On the other hand, the Dell wireless-n card delivered strong throughput of 19.6 and 17.9 Mbps at 15 and 50 feet, respectively, which either matches or slightly beats the category averages (19.4 and 16.7 Mbps). Hard averages aside, we'd say that any ultraportable worth its salt should last at least 4 hours. Meanwhile, the ThinkPad X200 Tablet with multitouch lasted 7 hours on the same test, though that configuration came with an extended battery. Although that's a marked improvement over the last-generation XT, whose six-cell battery lasted 2:41 (albeit on a different battery test), it still falls well short of the category average of 5 hours. The XT2's six-cell battery lasted 3 hours and 25 minutes on the LAPTOP Battery Test. For instance, while we could make out New York's terrain immediately, the tiny drawing of the crowds inside Yankee Stadium took a few extra seconds to render. While we got to our destinations quickly, it took a few seconds for the details in these maps to load. These flyovers were fairly smooth, although we noticed some motion blur. In addition to our standard frame rate tests, we played around in Google Earth, making stops at Disney World, Yankee Stadium, and the Louvre. Gaming is not what this 12-inch business tablet was designed for, anyway. Its Far Cry 2 frame rate of 3 frames per second (at 1024 x 768 resolution) is not playable, but neither is the category average (6 fps). The XT2's integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics card scored 641 on 3DMark06, below the category average by 200 points. The ThinkPad X200 Tablet, however, needed only 7:32 for this task. When we transcoded a 5-minute-and-5-second MPEG-4 clip to AVI, it took 11:05, which beats the ultraportable category average (15:18) by over four minutes. Moreover, the XT2 booted in a speedy 43 seconds, whereas the average Vista machine of any size boots in a minute, and perhaps even a few seconds longer. In our everyday use, we were able to switch between several open tabs in Internet Explorer without a hiccup, scrolling through blogs and clicking on links to breaking news. The 7,200-rpm hard drive inside the ThinkPad X200 Tablet, by comparison, turned in a transfer rate of 26.4 MBps. Thanks to a 128GB Intel SSD, the XT2's drive transferred a 4.97GB mixed media folder at a blazing rate of 38.0 MBps, about double the average ultraportable's pace of 19.5 MBps. However, the X200 Tablet is equipped with a much faster 2.13-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SL9600 processor. The Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet with multitouch, which costs $288 less, outperforms it with a score of 3,473. Click to enlargeOur XT2's 1.4-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 CPU, 3GB of RAM, and 32-bit Vista Business OS notched 2,887 on PCMark Vantage (a performance benchmark), which edges out the average ultraportable (2,737) by about 100 points.
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