Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Review
The ThinkPad X300 is a 13.3″ screen ultra thin-and-light laptop for the traveling and business person - the executive road warrior. It weighs about the same as the MacBook Air, depending on how you configure it, and the removable battery, a built-in optical drive, integrated WWAN, and multiple USB ports make this little ultraportable much more desirable from a business standpoint.
Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Reviews
PCMag reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 and writes:
The X300 makes practical sense for a business traveler who needs an optical drive, multiple USB ports, and countless wireless options. Many might cry foul over the exorbitant price and the single storage option, but I can sympathize with Lenovo’s plight: It doesn’t want to price out the ThinkPad X61, the company’s best-selling ultraportable. And although SSD drives will remain a luxury for the time being, prices will come back down eventually.
Rating: 4/5.
CNet reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 and writes:
The good: Extremely thin and light; sleekest ThinkPad yet; built-in DVD burner, plus WWAN, GPS, and wireless USB.
The bad: Solid-state drive comes at a high premium; touch pad’s location makes it easy to accidentally graze while typing.
The bottom line: The ThinkPad X300 breaks new ground by packing a broad display, full-size keyboard, and nearly every feature a mobile user needs into a sleek, lightweight case.
Rating: Excellent - 8.5/10.
Notebookreview reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 and writes:
The ThinkPad X300 is a premium product that’s worth the price if you need the features it offers. The X300’s excellent portability, abundance of wireless options, built-in optical drive, SSD advantage, great screen, fantastic keyboard, and second-to-none build quality all add up to a notebook that’s easy to recommend to business users who consider a notebook to be an important part of their success with work. It’s certainly not the right notebook for everyone, the 64GB storage limit, under powered processor and high price immediately eliminates most consumers from even considering the X300. We would have like to have seen such things as an SD card reader, docking capability and an ExpressCard or PC slot. You can’t have it all though, and the ThinkPad X300 is much more practical than the pretty but port challenged MacBook Air, and so the X300 gets the Editor’s Choice recommendation that we couldn’t rationalize giving to the MacBook Air. Bravo to Lenovo, and we hope that they push this 13.3″ slim form factor more and find ways to bring the pricing down.
Pros
Under 1-inch thick, the thinnest ThinkPad ever
Light weight and easy for carrying around in a bag
Superb build quality and feel, nice design touches added
Built-in optical drive for such a thin notebook is a rarity
Good performance in normal business tasks, very fast bootup with the SSD
Very bright screen for easy viewingCons
No SD card reader
No expansion dock capability, USB based port replicator only
No ExpressCard or PC card slot
Starting price of $2,500 is out of range for many people
Rating: N/A.
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