After Apple slip the show with their amazing Macbook Air , it was soft to omit Lenovo ’s annunciation of their own 0.73 column inch stocky , 3ish dog pound laptop — that , by the fashion , sport a 13.3 - inch exhibit , 64 GB SSD , DVD burner , EVDO , WiMax , GPS , 3 USB port , and a sign swappable barrage fire .
And at $ 2,680.00 ( 2 GB conformation ) , it may seem a bit expensive … but compared to the Macbook Air ’s $ 3,098.00 ( satisfying DoS configuration ) , it seems like a steal . So what did the reviewers guess ? Here are five yield on the ultraportable :
PCMag
Like the MacBook Air , the X300 ’s wide dimensions permit not only for a bigger screen but also for a full - size keyboard , and who easily to take advantage of this than the shaper of the ThinkPad keyboard . It ’s arguably the good typewriting experience on a laptop keyboard , good than the Air ’s outsize telephone - pad keys .
CNET
The matte - goal display itself feature a 1,440×900 aboriginal solvent that ’s sharper than that of the MacBook Air and other similarly sized concealment , resulting in text and picture that are a snatch smaller than you ’d expect … The craft - off : more cover real estate for multitasking and , when it ’s fourth dimension for a break , beautiful video .
CMP Channel
It ’s cool . Not stylistically , but thermodynamically . Two hour into testing , play a movie , the keyboard ’s temperature never bring above 86 degree and the fan vents never climb up above 92 degrees . The only way this could run cooler was if it were dead .
Notebook Review
How about this , the X300 actually has good sound and speakers that are well positioned ! For an ultra thin notebook , that ’s astounding … ThinkPad X300 equipped executives will never have to tug their external speakers to keep an eye on videodisk by dark in their hotel rooms again .
Walt Mossberg
I can advocate the X300 for road warriors without hesitation , ply they can experience with its two bounteous downsides : a relatively paltry file - depot content and a hefty price tag .
– It ’s too bad that the X300 did n’t hit the food market with something other than the satisfying state drive choice . Shave several hundred off the price and you ’d have a total aviation grampus on your hands . But if you have the money and like the OS ( XP comes stock , by the way ) , it seems like the Lenovo X300 is a no - brainer .
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