Meet the MacBook Air’s PC cousin, Lenovo’s ThinkPad X300
The MacBook Air is as light on features as it is physically weighted. If one USB port, one monitor out and headphone jack aren’t enough for you then turn your eyes towards the PC world. Lenovo has created a thin and light laptop that also fits in a manila envelope but isn’t light on features.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X300 features a 13″ LED display at 1440 x 900 resolution with full keyboard but tosses in the extras that Apple should have included. It has a built-in DVD drive, three USB ports, Ethernet jack, standard issue WiFi and a removable battery. MossBlog says there are even GPS and cell phone modem options.
The processor is said to be an Intel Core 2 Duo operating at 2.0GHz and the laptop can be equipped with up to 4GB of memory. Lenovo says the standard battery life is about 4 hours.
You won’t be stuck with Windows Vista either as Windows XP is on offer. Don’t get get me wrong, it’s not as thin as the MacBook Air but it still clocks in at 3.12 pounds with standard battery and DVD drive.
The only option for storage on the X300 is a solid state drive with a capacity of 64GB, there is no option for a larger traditional mechanical hard drive.
Price will be between $2,500 and $2,800 but at least it’s something you’d want to own and is infinitely more useful than Apple’s castrated MacBook Air.
Here’s to Apple, for creating the most useless laptop, ever. I’m glad to see that 1440 x 900 resolution is possible on a 13″ display, now, Apple, pay attention. Make a 13″ MacBook Pro with similar specs to the X300, price it lower, equip it with a large standard hard drive, dedicated graphics and that’ll fill the gap in your laptop product line.
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