First time maintenance tasks for my Lenovo

Hi guys,

In a two days I will have my x200 tablet. It will come with 1,86Ghz, 4GB, 120GB SSD and Vista 64. Would you suggest me some first maintenance task that I should do as soon as I get laptop ?

Im sure that will me making recovery media from Rescue and Recovery,

I see that with this tablet I shouldnt be updating any drivers because there seem to be some non fixed problem for a looooong time ?

What else ?


Oh and by the way please tell me about your battery life with 4 cell and 8 cell bateries and hdd or ssd of course. I saw that there was topic with question but thing may be diffrent new when battery new got in working order and vista cached up

Thanks !

 

Recovery media, install free firewall and antivirus, pull off any unwanted bloatware, setup windows as you like, image your drive.

Then its up to you. I usually undervolt, install other good utilities (defragger (which you won't need with ssd), ccleaner, adware/malware detection)

 

Instead of thinking of it as a task, how about just enjoying for a bit before you get all serious?

 

We, Europeans are very serious

 

I would recommend setting the pagefile to be dynamic. Have a small fixed size (e.g. 256MB) and a large max size (e.g. 4GB or 8GB). This will save space on your SSD and you don't pay the same penalty for resizing a swap file on the fly as a person with an HDD. You may also want to consider disabling hibernate (type "powercfg.exe -h off" in an administrative command prompt) as this saves another 4GB of space and I find a machine with an SSD to do a cold boot as fast (or faster) than a hibernate resume.

Additionally, if you want pressure sensitivity in graphics applications (e.g. Photoshop, GIMP, et. al.) you will need to install the Wacom Enhanced driver. By default you only get sensitivity in PenAbled applications (e.g. Word, OneNote, Journal).

You should also go into the tablet shortcut menu (button on the display bezel) and click the bottom button to customize the menu. I recommend that you check "Resume the system upon removing the pen" and calibrate and play with ActiveRotate (uses the APS sensor to automatically change display orientation).

To which driver issue are you referring? The only thing even resembling an issue that I have is an inability to turn the brightness all the way down in Windows 7. I have NO DRIVER ISSUES in XP/Vista, and no other issues in 7.

I only have the 8 cell. With Win7 and an SSD I can get my energy usage down to about 6.5watts with a dim screen (corresponds to about 8/15 bars in Vista) and wireless off; this equates to 9-10 hours. With wireless on and a max bright screen my energy usage hovers between 9.5 and 11.0 watts; equating to 6-7 hours. With Vista, an SSD, wireless off, and a 0/15 display you may be able to get as low as 5.5 watts and 11 hours of battery life (with admittedly unusable settings). Additionally, when the pen is in range (about 1" from the display) your power usage will go up by about 2 watts because the screen must power the digitizer pen through induction.

 

you should do some tweaking of your os, e.g. for the SSD (e.g. hibernation off) and also for security (e.g. upnp off etc)

 

Thanks for replies.

As default I got hibernation off but I tried Fn key + F12 and system crashd. I mean the screen went black, Hibernation diode was blinking and then tablet shut itself down. When I booted it I had screen saying that the last time Windows wasnt properly closed.

To be honest I dont care much about space on SSD because I have WD 500GB in UltraBay Slim Adapter.

Id prefter to have hibernation on because to me its useful when I dont want to close applications, windows and I dont want to shut down or be in standby (sleep) because it drains battery.

The Tablet and the Ultrabase feel really solid. Everything seems to be on its place. Its very quiet with SSD, you can sometime hear fan kick in or additional hdd spinning in the ultrabase but it will shut down after a while.

I had X61s. This feels even lighter I think. More solid chasis. Even fingerprint is faster

The cons: well when you are in tablet mode you can feel that screen moves a little bit. Its very little movement but you can feel when you press on the right side above the right palmrest. I think the reason is that those two rubbers protecting display from the keyboard arent perfectly inside that hole in which they are. I dont think its big issue but I spent a lot of moeny on this and I dont want it I didnt write too much in portrait mode so we will see

I dont think that my track point touches the display but mouse buttons may. Im not 100% sure on this.