Lenovo product specs

Lenovo X220

Just came back from buying new laptop. I monitored for about a month used goods internet board Yad2 and finally I found a hot deal. Lenovo X220 (4291-4CG) for 4,000 NIS. New one like this here in Israel starts from 8,400. I was so lucky and that seller came with unboxed laptop. It's manufacture date was Dec 26th 2011 (less than a month)!

Lenovo X220 4291 specs

This is CPU-Z validation page with hardware details.

At Cisco I had older model X201 for less than a year and now when I'm layed off, I was need a good "work horse" at home. As I buy things for long period, I wanted a strong model. And, honestly, I wanted same Lenovo. I never saw something good like this at other manufactures. I also know how to dessasebmle it, I knew where Lenovo sits in Israel, was there several times. But who wants to pay about 10K for laptop?

But my post is not about the laptop. It's about how to check it's spec details by model. Most people selling used laptops write only few main things about them like CPU, RAM, HDD specs and if it has scratches, how cool it is - more epithet that facts. But to know more details you should refer to Lenovo data sheet. So I was always asking for product id (type-model) of the laptop.

Lenovo X201 3626 product sticker

Now, knowing product id, I found a good place where to check full specs. Google not always lead to right results. Your start point is Lenovo - Personal Systems Reference (PSREF). Here you can find index for current and withdrawn products, look for exact specs: CPU type, chipset, memory, HDD types, screens, network cards, other details.

Highlighted links are:
History file - place to understand files structure

Find you model, remember sheet name from column
Index of current products
Index of current products (Western Europe)
Index of withdrawn products

Search for type-model or sheet name in these
ThinkPad Notebooks
ThinkPad Notebooks (Western Europe)
Withdrawn ThinkPad Notebooks; 2005 to presen

Parts lookup by type and s/n http://support.lenovo.com/en/ibasepartslookup
Warranty lookup http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/warrantylookup
X230 How to identify models with IPS

Update (2012-02-09)
Got nice case for my laptop Case Logic ULA-112 for 120 NIS.

NetBeans 6.9 and Lenovo TrackPoint in Windows 7

Problem
Recently I installed new NetBeans 6.9 on my Lenovo X61s and found that TrackPoint is not working for scrolling with middle button.

Solution
You need to find TrackPoint file tp4table.dat where programs mappings listed.
Under my Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit I found it in C:\Program Files\Lenovo\TrackPoint\.
Use file search, if you have a trouble finding it there.
Now open file with write permission (if you non-privileged user, use admin account) and add following to the programs section.
; NetBeans
*,*,netbeans.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9

Don't mess with [AutoScrollTable] section at the end of the file were syntax goes like this
*,*,iexplore.exe,*,smooth
NetBeans fix should be inserted before auto scroll table part. Believe me, I tried that for two days asking myself a lot of "why this not working" :-)

To apply settings, open Windows Task Manager, find process named tp4serv.exe (PS/2 TrackPoint Daemon) and end it. As it run as your user, you don't need administrator to rerun it again. Go to C:\Program Files\Lenovo\TrackPoint\ and run tp4serv.exe again.
If that doesn't help to apply settings, try to restart Windows or check other related precesses: SynTPEnh.exe and SynTPLpr.exe; restart SynTPEnh.exe.

Tested on
Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.9 (Build 201006101454)
Java: 1.6.0_21; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 17.0-b16
System: Windows 7 version 6.1 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nb)

More info
"Mouse wheel scroll" not working on Touchpads
Thinkpad Scrolling fixed for Safari and IntelliJ
Trackpoint Scrolling with Java
Google on tp4table.dat

Bonus
Firefox fix
; Mozilla Firefox
*,*,firefox.exe,*,*,MozillaWindowClass,WheelVkey,0,11

Other Java programs fix (if not works by defaults)
*,*,*,*,*,SunAwtFrame,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,*,*,*,SunAwtDialog,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,*,*,*,SunAwtCanvas,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,*,*,*,SunAwtFrame,WheelStd,0,9

Window names can be found with free AutoIt tool, kudos for tip to Andy.