Type: Ultraportable, Business, Small BusinessOperating System: MS Windows XP Professional
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo L7100
Processor Speed: 1.2 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Weight: 3.3 lb
Screen Size: 13.3 inches
Screen Size Type: widescreen
Graphics Card: Intel GMA X3100
Storage Capacity: 358 GB
Networking Options: 802.11n
Primary Optical Drive: DVD+R DL
Lenovo ThinkPad X300 is not crammed to the gills with features, but useful ones are plentiful. One of the most important is a built-in dual-layer DVD burner, which is considered pretty impressive in 3-pound-and-under ultraportables. Others in its weight class, such as the Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N, the Panasonic Toughbook W5, the Fujitsu LifeBook P8010, and the Toshiba Portégé R500, have already broken ground in this frontier. The X300 uses the same 7mm optical drive as the VAIO VGN-TZ150N and Portégé R500 to keep its thickness under an inch.
Another useful feature is the integrated WWAN modem, courtesy of Verizon's EV-DO networks—and something the Apple MacBook Air and the LifeBook P8010 could have used. As a business professional, We only can imagine how much money and time a cellular modem could save, even with its pricey monthly premiums. Many Peoples would have been satisfied with cellular wireless alone in their laptop, but Lenovo went out of its way to address every other wireless scenario. It has a GPS chip and mapping software built in for long road trips—a cool idea, though I don't think laptops are ready to replace standalone GPS navigation devices. It's also one of the first laptops to integrate a WiMax chip—Intel's next-generation wireless that could potentially bring better throughputs, over greater distances.
The X300 is also equipped with standard 802.11n wireless, and it comes with Bluetooth 2.0. Like the MacBook Air, the X300's wider dimensions allow not only for a bigger screen but also for a full-size keyboard, and who better to take advantage of this than the makers of the ThinkPad keyboard. It's arguably the best typing experience on a laptop keyboard, better than the Air's oversize phone-pad keys. Every key is equal in size to those on the ThinkPad T61 Widescreen, so you're not sacrificing anything with a smaller laptop. Amazingly, Lenovo even managed to put in dual pointing devices: its patented TrackPoint pointing stick and a slightly compressed touchpad. By contrast, the MacBook Air used most of the space beneath the keyboard to create a gesture-based touchpad, where users can manipulate files and images with multiple fingers. Cool effects, but not as practical as having dual pointing devices.
