Lenovo X60T and Windows 8 Consumer Preview

I spent about 2 to 3 hours to install and set up Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my Lenovo X60T Tablet PC.  The installation was a success, and I learned a few things though out the process.

First of all, forget about the touchscreen feature on X60T.  It's a joke compare with resistance digitizer like iPad or even the Eee Slate.  The experience is just terrible, and you have to really press your finger before it can sensored.  It suddenly reminds you what using a Pocket PC with a stylus is like, only that you lost your stylus, and now you have to use your finger to perform those control.  It's a torture to the finger.

But the biggest problem is that through out the switching between finger and stylus, Windows 8 Consumer Preview will get confused, and eventually IGNORE the button click all together.  After more than half hours of struggle, I finally give up, and need to do something to STOP the touch screen detection.  This was when I realized that the setting was NOT available by default.

Windows 8 Consumer Preview with all the latest update actually installed all the hardware drivers for  X60T.  The problem is that the following are missing:

• Hardware buttons, like screen rotation.
• Fingerprint authetication
• Manual turning off of "MultiTouch", which means allowing you to touch of touch screen (thus stylus only)

To solve the "MultiTouch" problem, I went to this page, install the drive, reboot, and then load up the "Touch Panel Properties" page, and simple check off "Enable Touch Panel".  That's it.  No more confusion and lost of button click.

ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software 5.6 does NOT seemed to work X60T .  I tried a while, and then gave up.

For hardware buttons, I installed the Tablet Button Installation (7jgk06ww.exe) and that gives me back those screen orientation rotation buttons.

Because there was no real multitouch, the power of flicking your finger to scroll around selection, using 2 finger gesture to zoom and shrink, and other stuffs that makes touch an enjoyable experience are all gone on Windows 8 running on Lenovo X60T.  In fact, some apps like Store even does NOT support stylus tap on the tile, and I have to switch back to using mouse and mouse button.  It's pretty obvious that in order to enjoy Windows 8, you HAVE to buy some new hardware.