What a lot of people fail to realise is the x270 was a business laptop an as such if your in the it procurement you're not thinking about giving your employees the best laptop for non business uses, it's for work not leisure. Most were produced with the abysmal tn screen panels and upgrading is not a cost option unless the screen is cheap enough. All my x270s run win11 just change the security chip from discrete to intel ptt and it's TPM 2.0 compatable.
I have one, not the full HD screen. I am not sure I would want the 1080p because with such a small physical screen size, I don't want everything that small. My desktop monitor is 1080p and it's huge by comparison. I don't want all that screen pixelage cramming into a smaller screen. I love my x270. I re-pasted the CPU, upgraded to 16 GB ram. I have the i7-7600. As my backup/portable system it does me fine. Yes I would like 4 cores for some VM usage but it's not a primary system for me. I installed the new free VMware workstation Pro and set up a basic system just for security testing of something in case I have no other way to test something before installing it but I am not using a VM for any serious stuff. It is nice and snappy, has NVME drive and I managed to find new-old stock genuine battery since the crappy modern battery I bought had major issues with CPU slowing. The genuine battery works a charm. Not replaced the internal one though because I cannot get straight answers on the health AND I found no new ones at all.
btw, you can put Windows 11 on it. You just need to do the tricks to make a bootable media that has none of the ridiculous requirement checks. Rufus does a good job of that. Windows 11 works great on my X270 and my mums.
I got two X270 and want to upgrade the RAM as it sometimes reaches it's limits. Do you have any idea if I can use 32GB or is 16GB the limit ? Thanks, Stephan
Can you tell me something about the 2 batteries the laptop has ? Is the internal battery the weaker one of the two ? How many hours the internal battery should provide, and how many the external ? I have the same laptop but the internal is dead so I'm looking to buy one
I don't actually own a X270 (I do have a T480 which also has bridge battery system) so take it as you like. T480's internal battery is 24Wh which can last 3~4hours on light load like web surfing, while X270's internal one is 23Wh, so I assume it would probably perform similarly. Personally if I were in your situation I might consider just get a larger external battery, since bigger battery would experience less cycles with the same usage thus lasts longer, and treat the dead internal one as an emergency UPS (unless it's dead dead of course.) I believe there's a extended external battery model that has about the same capacity of the internal one plus the slim external one.
Microsoft has been closing the loopholes to install windows 11 on unsupported hardware, so I don't want to recommend something to somebody that might come back and bite them down the road.
What a lot of people fail to realise is the x270 was a business laptop an as such if your in the it procurement you're not thinking about giving your employees the best laptop for non business uses, it's for work not leisure. Most were produced with the abysmal tn screen panels and upgrading is not a cost option unless the screen is cheap enough. All my x270s run win11 just change the security chip from discrete to intel ptt and it's TPM 2.0 compatable.
I think the keyboard is way more involved than I would want to do. I saw a video and you had to really, really dissect the whole thing.
I have one, not the full HD screen. I am not sure I would want the 1080p because with such a small physical screen size, I don't want everything that small. My desktop monitor is 1080p and it's huge by comparison. I don't want all that screen pixelage cramming into a smaller screen. I love my x270. I re-pasted the CPU, upgraded to 16 GB ram. I have the i7-7600. As my backup/portable system it does me fine. Yes I would like 4 cores for some VM usage but it's not a primary system for me. I installed the new free VMware workstation Pro and set up a basic system just for security testing of something in case I have no other way to test something before installing it but I am not using a VM for any serious stuff. It is nice and snappy, has NVME drive and I managed to find new-old stock genuine battery since the crappy modern battery I bought had major issues with CPU slowing. The genuine battery works a charm. Not replaced the internal one though because I cannot get straight answers on the health AND I found no new ones at all.
You can always change the scale on a 1080 screen to make the icons bigger. I like the higher resolution because it makes text easier to read.
Great video! I'm thinking about getting one of these as a portable learning machine. And its gotta run Doom.
btw, you can put Windows 11 on it. You just need to do the tricks to make a bootable media that has none of the ridiculous requirement checks. Rufus does a good job of that. Windows 11 works great on my X270 and my mums.
Can you help me setting up windows 11?
How to set W11?
Can we charge it using power bank through type c port
I got two X270 and want to upgrade the RAM as it sometimes reaches it's limits. Do you have any idea if I can use 32GB or is 16GB the limit ? Thanks, Stephan
Yes it can run 32gb of ram, they are just pricy for a single dimm like this: amzn.to/4ava9Oh
Can you tell me something about the 2 batteries the laptop has ? Is the internal battery the weaker one of the two ? How many hours the internal battery should provide, and how many the external ? I have the same laptop but the internal is dead so I'm looking to buy one
I don't actually own a X270 (I do have a T480 which also has bridge battery system) so take it as you like. T480's internal battery is 24Wh which can last 3~4hours on light load like web surfing, while X270's internal one is 23Wh, so I assume it would probably perform similarly.
Personally if I were in your situation I might consider just get a larger external battery, since bigger battery would experience less cycles with the same usage thus lasts longer, and treat the dead internal one as an emergency UPS (unless it's dead dead of course.) I believe there's a extended external battery model that has about the same capacity of the internal one plus the slim external one.
You could use it with Windows 11 without problems! with rufus
Microsoft has been closing the loopholes to install windows 11 on unsupported hardware, so I don't want to recommend something to somebody that might come back and bite them down the road.
@@AICvideowhat would be a good alternative then in the x series compatible with win 11? or would t480 be a better option? thnx