Lenovo's latest video driver for the X61T is dated sometime in June. I've been having a lot of problems with my video driver "stopping" and "recovering". It gets pretty annoying. The driver installer on Intel's site won't install on the X61T. It says to get the driver from the OEM.

I took a look on Intel's site again recently to see if there was another way to get the drivers and I noticed a zip file you can download.

Once I got the drivers extracted I went into Device Manager and updated the drivers manually. I haven't had a video driver stop message for about a week now, so it looks like these drivers fixed my problem. By the way, this is Vista X64.

I think I found a decent bag to carry my X61T Tablet. I had a real hard time finding something that was small and non-bulky, yet had some extra room to carry a little more than just the tablet itself. This bag is made from neoprene and is very light. It is slightly larger than the X61T, but I think I'll be happy with it. It has a small pocket on the front that could hold maybe an extra battery or a power supply. It also has a strap on the back that you can slide over the pull handle on a rolling suitcase.

The fingerprint reader software on my ThinkPad X61T has stopped working at the Windows login screen. I've tried re-installing the software a couple of times, to no avail. So I have re-installed Vista and I'll be getting all the drivers installed again. This time I am not going to use the ThinkVantage system update software though. It never quite worked right.

After just short of a month, my ThinkPad X61T Tablet PC arrived last week. So far, I am pretty happy with it. The first thing I did was create the recovery discs and then flatten it. It came with Vista Ultimate 32 bit. I installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I found this guide on doing a clean install on ThinkPads. It worked well and I am now running Vista 64 bit.

Why do I want to run 64 bit? Well, I installed 4 GB of RAM (max supported by the hardware) and I want to make use of all of it. I also plan on running virtual machines on this laptop. I'll run at least one VM for work because our VPN solution doesn't support Vista yet :(

So, what's the hardware configuration?

• Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 (1.6GHz, 4MB L2, 800 MHz FSB)
• OCZ 4GB PC2-5400 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM (2 DIMM)
• 12.1" MultiView + MultiTouch WVA XGA TFT (1024 x 768)
• 200GB SATA 7200 RPM Hard Drive with Hardware Disk Encryption
• 1GB Intel Turbo Memory
• ThinkPad X6 Tablet UltraBase w/ 8X Dual Layer DVD Recorder
• Integrated Bluetooth
• Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN
• X60 8 Cell Li-Ion Battery

Lenovo is having a sale right now if you want to order one. (No, I don't get any kick-backs from them!)

More to come after I play with it some more!