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Adding USB 3 to my Lenovo X220 Tablet

My X220 is a stalwart machine. It’s built like a tank and can be upgraded in a numb of ways. Mine now has 16Gb of RAM and two SSDs which allow me to run multi-VM environments for development and demo. Unfortunately, however, there is no USB 3 on the laptop. That’s a pain if I need to copy stuff on and off via USB, or run VMs from a USB 3 pod.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Sunday, June 8, 2014

Tweaking my Lenovo x220 Tablet and running Windows 8

A short while ago I replaced my trusted by heavy Acer laptop with a Lenovo x220 tablet. After a couple of months running windows 8 I’m ready to put my thoughts into words. If you’ve landed on this post looking for notes on Windows 8 drivers for the x220, skip to the end. UPDATE 12/06/2012 – added some points to the Windows 8 section. A painful purchase Nothing could have prepared me for the deeply unpleasant experience of actually purchasing my new tablet.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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Rik is Chief Consulting Officer at Black Marble, a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award and a Microsoft Regional Director. He is an organiser of the DDD and DDD North UK community events and a member of the admin team for the Global Azure worldwide community event.

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