Lenova Tablets/Laptops

[mdambitions]

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I'm matriculating this Fall, looking forward to an overdo laptop upgrade, and would like some suggestions.

We are not a mac family. I also am not a huge fan of the detachable keyboard options - like with the surface pro, though I have been looking at the Thinkpad Helix. I already have an iPad, but I also have a love/hate relationship with my note taking efficiency using it. I used evernote quite a bit through my post-bac classes and have played around with some of the PDF Annotation apps... but I'm not that great with them. So I'm looking specifically for convertible laptops. I want full functionality.

I keep ending up at the Lenova Thinkpad Yoga w/ digitizer option. Is there anything better? I'm not terribly concerned with price at this point.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I've been looking at the Lenovo as well; the problem with the Yoga is no disk drive (many radiology images come to my office on CD) and I don't want to purchase an external one (the more pieces I have, the more likely I am to leave it somewhere between home, 3 offices and OR).

Nothing to add except that I'm interested in seeing what others say about the Lenovo.

 

[BurghStudent]

In the PC world, Lenovo is the leader. Everything is becoming small form factor now, so I'm not sure you'll find an ultraportable laptop with a CD drive in case you need one. But a Lenovo with a solid state drive is heaven.

 

[mdambitions]

What's your opinion on Thinkpad Yoga v. Helix. They both support active digitizers, right?

 

[Priapism4tooLong]

I'm not sure med school is doable without sucking on the giant nipples of apple.

 

[Psai]

I've been looking at the Lenovo as well; the problem with the Yoga is no disk drive (many radiology images come to my office on CD) and I don't want to purchase an external one (the more pieces I have, the more likely I am to leave it somewhere between home, 3 offices and OR).

Nothing to add except that I'm interested in seeing what others say about the Lenovo.

What is a c d?

I know a guy who has a helix and he likes it a lot but it's really expensive. Also you're swiveling the screen around to use it as a touchpad and it seems like a nuisance. I'd rather just have an ipad and a separate laptop. There's only one person that I know of who actually writes out their notes on their tablet; most people have an external keyboard on their ipad and use the touchscreen to navigate. You're going to be writing notes and looking at powerpoints so you just need a basic laptop with good functionality. Speed (solid state drives are awesome) and battery life are what's most important in my opinion.

 

[HLxDrummer]

The class before mine all had Lenovos with digitzers and hated them. Our class received Macbook Pros and everyone loves them. Take it with a grain of salt though as I think people are just happy cause its an Apple product.

 

[Winged Scapula]

What is a c d?

LOL...you kids. You know a shiny silver disk that contains music. Perhaps your parents have one? Corollary for video is the DVD. At any rate, I need a laptop with a disk drive/SSD for media provided by rads etc. I have several Apple products including MBP and IPad but they aren't functional enough with our EMR so really need a PC product for the office.

 

[Psai]

You know, I actually used those huge floppy disks in elementary school. The ones that were actually floppy.