Turn X220 Bluetooth ON

Posted on: Saturday, 2012.02.25 by J.D. H. in in Uncategorized,

Today was the first day I used bluetooth with my Lenovo X220 ThinkPad. The process is simple, but make sure you enable bluetooth by pressing Fn+F5 and change the Bluetooth status to “Radio On”: Once you turn the radio on, Windows 7 will display various prompts. When you pair a device (in my case bluetooth speakers) Windows [...]

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Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Service Manual PDF

Posted on: Tuesday, 2012.01.17 by J.D. H. in in computer tips,

I love my Lenovo X220, it truly is a superb computing machine If you are going to add an mSATA drive or other somewhat in-depth upgrades, you may want to checkout the service manual for the X220. It is comprehensive and nicely formatted. Color photos would be nice but the black and white diagrams are [...]

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Lenovo X220 ThinkPad Long Term User Review

Posted on: Wednesday, 2012.01.04 by J.D. H. in in computer tips,

This is a placeholder  for additional content as the review is added to… X220 purchase date: 2011.12.17 Specs: Processor Intel Core i7-2640M Processor (2.8GHz, turbo 3.5GHz, 4MB L3, 1333MHz FSB) Operating System Pre-installed Windows 7 Professional 64 – English Keyboard/Pointing Device UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) Total Memory 8GB PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz SDRAM SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM). Hard [...]

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Swap the Lenovo X220 ThinkPad Ctrl and Fn keys

Posted on: Sunday, 2012.01.01 by J.D. H. in in computer tips,

 Thank goodness you can swap the ctrl and fn keys on the x220! Just go into the BIOS (press F1 at boot) and adjust the Keyboard/Mouse settings

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7mm SSD list / 7mm HD list

Posted on: Friday, 2011.12.16 by J.D. H. in in computer tips, Computers, Gadgets and Tech,

UPDATE 2012.05.30: added a list of 7mm SSD and 7mm HDD at the end of this post… The most-excellent Lenovo Thinkpad X220 laptop supports a rather odd thickness for its hard drive/SSD: 7mm This is unusual since most laptop drives are 9.5mm and some are fatties coming in at 12mm or 12.5mm. However, the 7mm thin [...]

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Lenovo X220 i7 with eGPU! (diy ViDock)

Posted on: Saturday, 2011.08.27 by J.D. H. in in computer tips, Computers, Gadgets and Tech, Household, Work,

My new Lenovo X220 laptop should be arriving soon. While it has a nice i7 CPU, it only has only has an integrated Intel HD 3000  for the video card  This severely limits 3D performance, therefore I will be adding something known as a DIY eGPU -or- DIY ViDock. This is a simple little project that is [...]

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