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February 2008
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Under 1inch thick
The thinnest ThinkPad ever
Light weight and easy for carrying around in a bag
Superb build quality and feel
Nice design touches added
Builtin optical drive for such a thin notebook is a rarity
Good performance in normal business...
13-inch widescreen on a 3-pound ultraportable. Built-in dual-layer DVD burner. Integrated EV-DO antenna. WiMax-ready. Three USB ports. Unprecedented resolution in this weight class. Excellent battery life. Environmentally friendly.
Good battery life
Fully featured but lightweight
Good security features
Excellent keyboard
Extremely light and impressively thin
Durable solid-state drive
Onboard optical drive
Built-in mobile broadband
Amazingly light and portable
Lots of expansion ports
Feels rugged
Includes swappable optical drive
Virtually weightless at just 3.4 pounds. Runs Windows XP as an option instead of Vista. System is quick and responsive
Feels like a standard notebook
Not a strippeddown ultralight. Loud speakers. Handy keyboardilluminating light embedded in LCD panel.
Extremely thin and light
Sleekest ThinkPad yet
Built-in DVD burner
Plus WWAN
GPS
And wireless USB.
Kitchen-sink feature list includes DVD burner
WWAN
Solid-state storage
And Webcam
Comfortable full-size keyboard
Excellent power-management and security features
Choice of Windows XP or Vista
Sturdy
Great keyboard
Long battery life
Valueadded software
Integrated EVDO
Thin and lightweight
LED backlit screen
Solid state hard drive
Extremely comfortable keyboard and palm rest
ThinkVantage Productivity Center
Many excellent features in a tiny frame
Includes both touchpoint and trackpad
Excellent
Sturdy case
High quality materials and very good workmanship
Optical drive
UMTS/HSDPA inbuilt
Nonglare display with good illumination
User friendly keyboard
Touchpad/trackpoint combination
Low noise and heat emission
The editors didn't like
No SD card reader
No expansion dock capability
USB based port replicator only
No ExpressCard or PC card slot
Starting price of $2
500 is out of range for many people
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No SD slot. Very expensive. SSD drive is your only option. Low-voltage processors can bog down performance in Vista.
Expensive
Heavier than Macbook Air
Small trackpad
Little available hard disk space
SSD means only 64GB of drive space
No card slots
Pricey
Small touchpad
Needs bigger hard drive
A standard (and larger capacity) hard drive would be just fine. Disappointing battery life (2 hours
13 minutes). Power cord is too short. Black brick design really feeling its age. Graphics performance is middling at best.Clock Rate
1.26 GHz...
Solid-state drive comes at a high premium
Touch pads location makes it easy to accidentally graze while typing.
Performance Analysis: The ThinkPad X300 put up some interesting performance numbers. Understandably, with tests heavily CPU dependent tests, we saw the effects of the relatively low-clocked 1.2GHz processor, examples included 3DMark06 CPU, and PCMar...
Abstract: Lenovo probably wouldn’t admit it, but you get the impression they’re quite pleased with how they managed to crash the ultraportable party. Apple’s achingly-thin MacBook Air seemingly had just scant moments to enjoy the limelight, before...
Abstract: Lenovos leading-edge ThinkPad X300 packs power-savings into a petite and pricey three-pound chassis.Based on eWEEK Labs tests of Lenovos new, power-saving ThinkPad X300 ultralight notebook, its looking as though black is the new green. While the ne...
Abstract: Not even ten days after its world premiere, we got the chance to test the new Lenovo portable PC which is going to be sold on the market under the ThinkPad X300 tag. As you might have already guessed, the tested sample was not meant to be sold, but onl...
Abstract: Ever since the release of the MacBook Air just a few short weeks ago the mobile computing community has been abuzz with expectations from the competition. The MacBook Air is an engineering marvel but one that is not practical for many people....
Extremely thin and light; kitchen-sink feature list includes DVD burner, WWAN, GPS, solid-state storage, and Webcam; comfortable full-size keyboard; excellent power-management and security features; choice of Windows XP or Vista
Expensive; average performance; limited storage may be problematic for some users; noisy DVD drive; small touch pad; buttoned-down design no match for MacBook Air
Though not as skinny or sexy as the MacBook Air, the wispy ThinkPad X300 offers business-class computing without a hint of compromise. If you can afford the price, youll find it a first-rate traveling companion....
Under 1inch thick, the thinnest ThinkPad ever, Light weight and easy for carrying around in a bag, Superb build quality and feel, nice design touches added, Builtin optical drive for such a thin notebook is a rarity, Good performance in normal business...
No SD card reader, No expansion dock capability, USB based port replicator only, No ExpressCard or PC card slot, Starting price of $2,500 is out of range for many people, ThinkPad X300 Videos, ThinkPad X300 overview, ThinkPad X300 compared to ThinkPad ...
The ThinkPad X300 is a premium product thats worth the price if you need the features it offers. The X300s excellent portability, abundance of wireless options, built-in optical drive, SSD advantage, great screen, fantastic keyboard, and second-to-no...
13-inch widescreen on a 3-pound ultraportable. Built-in dual-layer DVD burner. Integrated EV-DO antenna. WiMax-ready. Three USB ports. Unprecedented resolution in this weight class. Excellent battery life. Environmentally friendly.
No SD slot. Very expensive. SSD drive is your only option. Low-voltage processors can bog down performance in Vista.
It will make a huge dent in your companys budget, but the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 has a lineup of features that eclipses those on the Apple MacBook Air....
Extremely thin and light; sleekest ThinkPad yet; built-in DVD burner, plus WWAN, GPS, and wireless USB.
Solid-state drive comes at a high premium; touch pads location makes it easy to accidentally graze while typing.
The ThinkPad X300 breaks new ground by packing a broad display, full-size keyboard, and nearly every feature a mobile user needs into a sleek, lightweight case. Price range: $2,830.50 See all products in the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 series
