Lenovo to launch a rival for MacBook Air
Lenovo has a super-slim rival to Apple's MacBook Air on the way in the form of the ThinkPad X300.
Like the Air, the X300 has a 13-inch widescreen display and a full keyboard and comes with a 64GB solid state drive (no hard disk option is offered).
However, it sounds as if Lenovo listened to the Air's critics and left in what Apple left out. The X300 has a DVD drive, a removable battery, three USB ports and an Ethernet jack.
Wi-fi is included as standard but you can also trick the X300 out with a built-in cellphone modem and GPS.
Lenovo has stuck with the usual boring black ThinkPad design, but the X300 is still less than an inch thick. Weight is 1.4kg.
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Comments
"usual boring black ThinkPad design.." Hey! Don't go dissing the ThinkPad's design. Between my partner and I, we have had a Compaq, Toshiba, Acer and a Thinkpad notebooks, and the Thinkpad is by far and away the most rugged and durable, and secondly the smallest and yet most powerful laptop.
I'm totally sold on ThinkPads now, and if Lenova ever changed the ThinkPad design it detract from the quality of the machine.
There's something to be said about a small, powerfull tough little machine that does an excellent job of portable computering.
Posted by: James Hogan | February 18, 2008 10:01 AM