Lenovo’s latest ultraportable notebook, the Lenovo ThinkPad X300, is only slightly wider and thicker than the Apple MacBook Air, but can still fit snugly into a manila envelope. The ThinkPad X300 tops the MacBook Air by packing in a built-in DVD burner, a removable battery, and multiple USB ports. The weight of the ThinkPad X300 varies from 2.9 pounds with a 3-cell battery and no optical drive to 3.3 pounds with a 6-cell battery and DVD Burner.

The X300 has a 13.3 inch screen with a 1440 by 900 native resolution. It has a full sized keyboard, the same keyboard found on Lenovo’s 14- and 15-inch models, as well as both the red eraser-head Track Point pointing stick and a touch pad. It has a fingerprint reader (after seeing the price you’ll be glad there is one!). There is also a 1.3-megapixel webcam and a noise-canceling digital microphone for Web conferencing.

There is no hard drive option on the X300, only a 64GB solid-state drive. (If you choose Windows XP Professional instead of Vista, you’ll still have some space left for your own applications and files) It has 2GB of RAM, upgradeable to 4GB.

As for connectivity, the ThinkPad X300 features 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi), Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, Intel UWB, GPS and Verizon WWAN (EV-DO).

Posted on May 9th, 2008 by mervyn