The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 is the best-looking Atom Windows 8 tablet yet, and the optional keyboard dock is excellent. All-day battery life makes it great for travel.
This Windows 8 tablet from Lenovo scores with great industrial design and Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 battery life
Disadvantages:
The Tablet 2 is expensive, especially considering the small 64GB SSD, lack of USB 3.0, and generally slow Atom performance.
Lenovo, maker of the fabled ThinkPad brand, has had a long and storied history with touch-screen laptop/tablet hybrids. At a time years ago when most other PC makers wouldn't go near the tiny convertible tablet market, there was always a ThinkPad model or two with a swiveling touch screen, even if Windows XP/Vista/7 weren't particularly well-designed for touch interaction.
In the Windows 8 era, Lenovo has been at the forefront of the new thrust towards touch devices, first with the folding-screen IdeaPad Yoga and rotating-screen ThinkPad Twist, and now with the ThinkPad Tablet 2, an Atom-powered slate that comes bundled with a clever keyboard dock and leather carry case.
The ThinkPad Tablet 2 isn't so different under the hood than the Dell Latitude 10, Acer W510, or other Atom Windows 8 tablets. All offer excellent battery life, but require performance compromises. They have limited onboard storage space, and frankly feel overpriced when compared to previous-gen Atom systems, which cost under $300, and full Core i5 tablets or hybrids, which can cost only a couple of hundred dollars more for a full-power experience.
| Price as reviewed / starting price | $838 / $670 |
| Processor | 1.8GHz Intel Atom Z2760 |
| Memory | 2GB, 800MHz DDR2 |
| Hard drive | 64GB SSD |
| Graphics | Intel GMA |
| Operating System | |
| Dimensions (WD) | 10.1 x 6.9 inches |
| Height | 0.34 inch |
| Screen size (diagonal) | 10.1 inches |
| System weight / Weight with AC adapter | 1.2/1.4 pounds |
| Category | Tablet |
The keyboard is of the same flat-topped island style as most recent Lenovo laptops, both of the ThinkPad and IdeaPad varieties, including the excellent IdeaPad Yoga. The large keys bow out a tiny bit at the bottom to assist with error-free typing, and the (relatively) large space bar and function keys make this feel less like a compromise-filled portable keyboard.
The 10.1-inch display has a native resolution of 1,366x768 pixels, which is exactly the same as every other Atom Windows 8 tablet we've tested. It's fine for such a small screen, and this is an IPS screen so it looks good from nearly any angle. Even with the low-power Atom processor, streaming HD video is no problem, and the Netflix app in the Windows 8 app store is a good example of an app that's well-optimized for this platform.
Amazing Lenovo Tablet 2 battery:
- Battery Chemical: Li-ion
- Battery Voltage: 3.7V
- Battery Capacity: 8640mAh
- Battery Color: black
- Type: original
- Warranty: 9 months
- Battery Source: http://www.laptop-battery.org.uk/laptopbattery/lenovo/tablet%202-batteries.htm
