Works Great, But Operating System Problem
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Last week on wednesday, the video card got delivered. But my sisters computer was on xp. It froze, it failed, and other stuff. But, I installed windows 7 and the first time it worked, but when I restarted, it kept giving me the BSOD.
(Blue Screen Of Death) I got sick of it and ended up installing windows vista and it WORKED. I found the drivers for vista, and she is now able to play Minecraft and other games. I would've gave this item a five, but the failure and the freezing made me take away 1 star.
1071357
This is the cheapest operating system upgrade I ever got and the most stable too! Great product.
1980180
If the operating system, Windows 8, worked, I would give this computer 5 stars. The computer is sleek and very fast. The features listed in the product description seem to be right on as far as I have been able to tell. The bad: Windows attempted to download and install 99 updates. After waiting for the download and installation Windows 8 had a problem configuring the updates and removed them all. I am still waiting to see if a second attempt during automatic maintenance is successful. Since I haven't been able to update, I can't upgrade to 8.1.
I am also unable to connect to my wireless network after configuring my network, passwords, etc. I have 6 other devices running on my network, so I know how to connect to it. Windows 8 recognizes the network but cannot connect. I had to connect via Ethernet to get online and attempt to update, etc.
UPDATE After about ten days and a lot of frustration, I was finally able to get all of the updates downloaded and installed and upgraded to 8.1. I also finally got the wireless to work. 8.1 is definitely an improvement, although I still prefer Windows 7 for a desktop or non-touchscreen machine. Microsoft attempted to create an operating system that was good for everything and turned out a product that does neither really well.
All in all, this is a nice machine and I now have it configured to navigate Windows 8.1 with minimal problems.
1742781
Great but somehow mac doesn't work well... but windows 7 of thinkpad is great!
2087532
The computer seems solid and the performance is good. I wish the computer manufacturers including Acer start providing more flexibility when it comes to the operating system...  for examples, I was looking for a good PC without OS at all [or with Windows 7]  but could not find one at Amazon... This PC is good but I gave it 3 stars only because of their bad choice of OS.
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First off, this is an amazing product. Keyboard is awesome, interface is awesome, manager is awesome, and the smartapplets are awesome. I bought this recently and have been using it mainly to write and to journal. Works great.

If you want a long and detailed technical review, look at Hooliator's (currently most helpful review). However, I would not recommend that you buy from him unless you are extremely lazy. His is the cheapest one that runs system 3 (in fact I think he is the only one), and system 3 is countless times better than system 1 (there is no system 2), but it is almost twice as much. You can buy a system 1 (I got mine from larrylilbooks, great condition, extremely fast (3 days for me when I used expedited shipping) shipping) and just update it to system 3 yourself.

How do you update you ask? You must have a computer running windows Vista 32-bit or Windows xp 32-bit. If you can borrow from a friend, that would work too as you should only have to use it a couple times.

 Go to this link to a Flickr thread.
[...]

Then, reply to one of Dougwalkabout's comments and ask him to send you a link to the upgrade package.

Once he does, download it and unzip. Open the setup.exe file in the root directory.
*Note: If you are running Windows Vista 32-bit, open the file in Compatability Wizard, and choose the XP package.

This should install Alphasmart Manager 2. Open this up, again if you are running Vista use Compatability Wizard, and choose the XP package.

Plug in your Alphasmart. If it does not recognize it, then plug it in to a different USB port. Once it is recognized, go to the tab on the far right. Then click "Send" at the bottom. This will update it. Make sure your computer is plugged in to a reliable source of power (not on battery) when it is updating.

At system 3, you can now add multiple smartapplets. You can also send text to a computer running any OS.
If you have any questions, they were probably similar to mine so you can just look at the comments I posted on the thread (my name is seten10). Dougwalkabout answered all my questions, and if you have any others you can send them to him and he will answer them.

You may also ask me any questions and I will be glad to answer them :)
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My laptop runs Linux. So the significance of this review is for linux users. In short, everything works, with Ubuntu Trusty 14.04.

The speed of the SSD access is amazing, and boot up is very fast. Overall responsiveness is great.

Installing Linux would have been easy except that I decided to retain the Windows 7 as a dual boot option. That caused various struggles associated first with the crazy fact that W7 is installed with four primary partitions already. That prevents you installing linux till you sacrifice one of them. I chose the restore partition, but I had to save it to a USB drive before wiping it. Then you have to shrink the W7 partition, which proves to be prevented to the extent one needs by W7 having written some unmovable files in the middle. There's a way to wipe those out temporarily and shrink the partition (using W7 tools, which is the best choice) but it took a lot of fiddling and googling to figure it out.

I deliberately chose the older series of X1s because I am wedded to the trackpoint and the new series doesn't seem to be designed for trackpoint use (even though it still has the little red button). Actually even this model has a larger touchpad than my previous T400, which is a bit annoying for someone like me who spends almost all the interface time at the keyboard. My hand tends to brush the larger touchpad and move the mouse around accidentally. syndaemon helps a lot to prevent that, but not completely. So that's really the only major weakness of the machine. The new layout of PgUp and PgDn keys is fine to me and will soon become automatic, I'm sure.

Touchscreen works pretty well. It doesn't recognize fancy gestures like pinch to zoom. And quite honestly the imprecision of touching buttons on the screen is something of a discouragement. Nevertheless, it works, and what it does it does quite well.
I'll mention another weakness to do with the touchscreen. There ways to draw over the desktop (and any windows on it) that work just fine in Linux. I hoped that this would enable me to do cool scribbling during presentations that I do for teaching and lecturing. Here's the problem though. When you connect to an external projector and mirror the displays so that you see the same thing on the screen as the display, the aspect ratio usually changes. The internal LCD has 16x9 ratio. Most beamers have 4x3, and also lower resolution. Well, if you draw with your finger on the screen with the (automatically adjusted) mirrored display, then there is incorrect registration of the position of your finger and the position of the marks that appear. It seems that drawing occurs at a place in the 4x3 sub-region that is the same fractional distance from its edges as your finger's fraction from the WHOLE SCREEN (the 16x9 region). That means you can't really draw sensibly when the screen is simultaneously beaming. A great shame.

Overall, though, this is an impressive machine and to me well worth the still rather high price.
358451
Great for older operating systems, but driver support and compatibility for Windows 8/10 is horrible.  Go with a newer model or different manufacturer.
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I  was having problems with my Vista operating system.  It locked up often, it was slow to start and some programs I wanted would not work in Vista.  I thought it was time for a new computer but now I should be able to get another few years out of the old thing.

I can't say the install was easy for me but it was because of my own mistake.  I have low vision and when the install box asked if I wanted to keep my programs or not, I clicked the wrong box and lost everyone of my programs.  I was lucky and had the key or had registered all of my important (expensive) programs and after a very long period of time, about a week, I recovered all that I needed.  So watch out and make sure you don't make that same mistake.
It does take a bit of time to get used to the new operating system but overall it is a big improvement.
I  did not find a problem going from 8 to 8.1.
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I had problems with OS, but Lenovo deliver the recovery discs very fast (less than 3 days).  OS Win 7
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Great Hardware; Software Lacking

The USB tuner itself works flawlessly.  WinTV 8.5 software gives an error "No Tuner Available" without any recourse to understand or troubleshoot the problem.  No doubt, it is caused by conflicts with other software on my system, as turning off, disabling and / or uninstalling other programs that might use or access the tuner allows the Hauppauge WinTV-DualHD USB 2.0 tuner and WinTV software to work well.  Also, the IR controller works well when the program is first started, but it unexpectedly switches to controlling the computer's functions rather than WinTV, even when focus is clearly set to the TV program (Windows 10 Pro).
3422911
Very sound product only issue was initial start up config. Usb files in conflict caused a full blue screen of death until I went into safe mode and fixed the bios conflict.
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Works. great!  Good reception, etc.  One fair warning though: if you have any pre-OS popups, IE: A boot loader that pauses forcing you to put Linux or Windows, or something like a "keyboard not detected, press F1 to continue" check, it does pause there.  I had to turn off keyboard check in my BIOS and fiddle with Linux a bit to auto-pick an OS and continue rather than pause at the prompt... seems the drivers don't fully load up then.

I forget to turn it off from time to time and after 1 year, I'm still on the original batteries.
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Well, I am now sitting at a friends house using his laptop

that runs WINDOWS and it actually works quite well I may

add!

After the horrible installation and loss of ALL of my data

finding out Linux is like 10 years behind Windows 3.1 in

my opinion being a consultant I might add.

For starters, Windows just works, this mess is for the people

who spend endless nights trying to make something work that

is not ready for prime time.

Now I need to figure out how to get my machine reloaded

with Windows XP Pro tonight and use the DVD as a coaster...
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With the expiration of Win XP, I needed an upgrade for my old HP, despite it being a dual core system. The program loaded fine, and has performed without issues for the past month. I know it is tough paying for a system upgrade, but at least Win7 was still available, and I didn't have to invest in a new machine.
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If you a Windows user I recommend you to buy it work as it expected out of the box. But if a Linux user I don't recommend you, there are many of problems.
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I originally bought this to run other operating systems the android portion of the device when paired with an air mouse functions just like an expensive internet TV. It tends to freeze up at times so my advice is to let it fully load before you continues. I also highly recommend that you pick up the dual core model from Rickomagic if you intend to run linux on this device.