At the same time, Lenovo discontinued the use of Android on its ThinkPad-branded tablets subsequent models, beginning with the Tablet 2, have exclusively used Windows as their operating system.ĭavid Hill of Lenovo said he believed the ThinkPad Tablet to be "the weapon of choice for business success". The ThinkPad Tablet was discontinued upon the launch of the Windows 8-based ThinkPad Tablet 2 in October 2012.
Slashgear summarized the ThinkPad Tablet by saying, "The stylus and the styling add up to a distinctive slate that doesn’t merely attempt to ape Apple’s iPad." This feature could be used to transfer data between USB devices, internal storage, or an SD card. Another feature on the Tablet was a drag-and-drop utility designed to take advantage of the Tablet's touch capabilities. The stylus could be used to write notes on the Tablet, which also included software to convert this handwritten content to text. Īdditionally, the ThinkPad Tablet is able to run software such as IBM's Lotus Notes Traveler. Since the Tablet is primarily business-oriented, it includes features for security, such as anti-theft software, the ability to remotely disable the tablet, SD card encryption, layered data encryption, and Cisco Virtual Private Network (VPN).
The tablet has been described by Gadget Mix as a premium business tablet. It suggests using Extended-IPL boot loader, but the provided links are broken and there seems to be no mirrors.Released in August 2011, the ThinkPad Tablet is the first in Lenovo’s line of business-oriented Tablets with the ThinkPad brand. says that some Thinkpad BIOSes do not use MBR on flashdrives. The same flashdrive (with the same Windows image on it) is booting without any problems on a Dell D430 and Lenovo Y550.Īlso, Ubuntu 12.04 install USB created with Unetbootin shows as bootable ('+' sign in BIOS boot order menu) and boots from the F12 boot menu.
The '-' sign suggests that the plugged flash drive is currently not bootable. The T61 BIOS shows '-USB HDD' in boot order menu.
In startup menu, added USB HDD to boot order (it has '-' sign in front of it)Ĭreated Windows 7 install media with UNetbootin, WinUSB (linux tool) dd and Grub4DOS.Īs you can tell, currently, I only have access to Linux machine to make the flashdrive. The problem is, Thinkpads BIOS will not detect the flash drive as bootable medium, and won't allow to boot from it.Įnabled USB BIOS Support in BIOS (it was on by default) I am trying to install Windows 7 Professional from USB 3.0 flashdrive, on a Thinkpad T61.
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