ThinkPad X300 Gets Review, Benchmark and Comparison with MacBook Air

ThinkPad X300 is available for pre-order at Best Buy, but it is yet some mysterious for laptop users that if it works as good as the description was come out in Web. Andrew Baxter had access to this laptop for few hours and he could do some tests on it. This review as a first review of ThinkPad X300 can give you a good view about this laptop. This review confirms some the initial description about this laptop.

Yes! It can be a good option for regular travelers who need a lightweight ultra portable laptop with more facilities than MacBook Air provides.

Here I glanced at the review but you can read the whole review and watch 5 videos here. In two of videos you can see the comparisons between ThinkPad X300 and MacBook Air, and ThinkPad T61. Also, one video has been allocated to wireless facility of this laptop.

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The price of ThinkPad X300 starts from around $2,400. The Configuration that can have entire the highlight features like 64GB SSD, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, Intel UWB, GPS, Verizon WWAN (EV-DO), and web camera gets the price around $3,000.

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According to this review some of the Pros and Cons of this laptop include:

Pros:
- Very thin with sturdy chassis made of carbon-fiber / glass-fiber, resistant against abuse and drops, and better than the previous ThinkPad laptops

- Attractive design in total black,

- The number of ports (3 USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, Audio out, microphone in, Monitor out, Kensington lock slot) that it has is more than MacBook Air.

- Quite capable of running office applications, photo editing tasks and performing any general web related tasks, (but is not suit to deliver good performance for 3D graphics applications or any heavy duty rendering tasks).

- The boot-up time is mere 32 seconds (with SSD) that is very nice.

- 13.3" WXGA+ screen on the X300 is nice and bright, with its 300 nit LED backlit spec.
-Good view angels
- The full-sized keyboard is as good as every previous ThinkPad's keyboard
- A generous sized touchpad with scrolling areas and pleasant good quality palm rest.
- Good sound and speakers with good position (on the corners of the laptop)

- Standard Lithium-Polymer battery lasts for up to 4.3 hours and the extended battery lasts up to 6.5 hours. As you know the Lithium-Polymer batteries have no propensity of explosion. According to wiki, the life expectancy of such batteries is 24 to 36 months

Cons:
- It doesn’t provide any PCMCIA or ExpressCard slots and no type of media card reader
- It doesn’t have a docking station and the Replicator connects via USB

As you see this review is not complete yet and there is no test on the matters of heat, the condition of performance when there are bunch of applications running together, and how are the features of camera and GPS and how well the WWAN, WLAN, Bluetooth and Intel UWB work and respond.

Now let us glance at the benchmark results done by Andrew to get more real idea about this laptop: according to his tests the overall performance (PCMark05) of ThinkPad X300 is much better than Apple MacBook Air (Intel Core 2 Duo P7500, 1.6GHz) and Sony VAIO TZ (1.20GHz Core 2 Duo U7600, Intel GMA 950).

PCMark05 benchmark: Lenovo ThinkPad X300 (Intel Core 2 Duo L7100, 1.20GHz, Intel X3100) scored 3,467 PCMarks
MacBook Air scored 2,478 PCMarks.
Sony VAIO TZ scored 2,446 PCMarks

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In the following you can see the specs of the laptop that was used in this review:

Processor: 1.20GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L7100 (800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
Memory: 2GB (up to 4GB configurable)
Hard Drive: 64GB SSD
Optical Drive: Ultra-thin DVD Burner

Display: 13.3" WXGA+ (1440 x 900, 300 nit) LED backlit display
Graphics Card: Integrated Intel X3100

Wireless connectivity: Intel 4965AGN (802.11 a/b/g/n wi-fi), Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, Intel UWB, GPS, Verizon WWAN (EV-DO)

Ports: 3 USB 2.0 ports, Monitor out port, AC adapter, headphone/line-out, microphone/line-in, Gigabit Ethernet, Port Replicator Via USB

Battery: 6-cell Li-Ion extended life battery
Dimensions: 12.4" x 9.1" x 0.73" - 0.92"
Weight: from 2.93lbs with 3-cell battery and no optical drive to 3.32lbs with 6-cell battery and DVD Burner in
Security: fingerprint reader
OS: Windows XP or Windows Vista (in various flavors)
Other: Integrated web camera, Full sized keyboard, trackpoint navigation, touchpad,

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This review shows that this laptop can stay among the most popular ultra portable laptops in the market like Dell XPS M1330.

In further post I will report you more reviews of this laptop. So, keep in touch

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