Just got one - cautiously optimistic (Score 1)

I am an interface designer, and I just got an X41 Tablet as my primary machine. It has a lot going for it - it's battery life is tremendous, the drawing experience is fabulous (almost better than drawing with a real pen - it's smooth, draws in real-time, and supports undo!), the handwriting recognition is quite good, and the keyboard is comfortable for typing. A trial for Alias's sketchbook application is included with the tablet - it is really ground-breaking to use this application with the stylus (I suggest everyone go to a best-buy and try it out, and anyone who does any degree of drawing for their job get a tablet exclusively for this application).

The thing that has me worried is performance. 1.5 ghz is pretty slow, and the 512 mb of ram is just-plain not good enough (I've got an additional gig of ram on the way - we'll see how that goes). The screen resolution is also only 1024x768 - fine for sketching, but when using photoshop or flash it's unacceptable.

Despite all this, I think the tablet has huge promise - my primary job is designing, which includes LOTS of paper-and-pencil sketching (most of which is never used since I am too lazy to scan). I think rapid low-fi prototyping will speed up immensely - I'm surprised that this niche (designers) has not been targeted more by Lenovo's marketing folks.