Lenovo's ThinkPad X220 Laptop and Tab Spotted

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Welcome to the world of ultra-portables. If you need a higher res, step up to a 14" model and quit whining! These systems are targeted at execs who squeeze themselves into airplanes a couple times a week and can't deal with the extra 1/2" of chassis on the seat-back tray. If you can handle carrying around a 14" laptop (T410 I believe will go up to 1440x900 and the 15" will do 1920x1080), then put down the IDE and pick up some free weights for a couple days. In business class laptops, I find Lenovo's to be in the top three for quality.
 
L[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]i would pay 1000$ at most. id pay 1500 if they used a wacom monitor, and 2000 if they used a real i7 (not that mobile crap) and a real mobile gpu[/citation] What you would pay is based on your requirements. The Thinkpad line of laptops have been the gold standard for business laptops for a long time. This laptop is extremely high quality. They are built like tanks and a jam packed with tech that you might not have a need for.

For example, one issue with laptops is that when they fall while active or with the them open, they fail because the hard drive takes damage due to the impact. The first laptop to incorporate an accelerometer to detect a fall and lock the drive so that the heads won't slap the platter was the Macbook Pro, then the Thinkpad. This was a feature over 6 years ago. No one else did it, not HP, not Dell, certainly not any one of the gaming laptop companies that made desktop replacements. Things like keyboard lighting, Macbook Pro did a backlit keyboard with a light sensor to auto adjust the brightness 7-8 years ago, IBM did it with a top light built into the laptop.

Believe me, you might not see it from the specs, but you are getting what you paid for in quality components, and intelligent engineering. I can build a high spec box for under 1000, I can't engineer a bunch of necessary or convenient but non marketable protective features for under 1000. My time alone to design that would cost more.
 
Considering how small the chassis is, and the ridiculous batter life, I'd take this over the new 13-inch SB Macbook Pro any day. Plus it throws in an anti-glare IPS screen, which costs an arm and a leg nowadays.

If only it went with a higher-res screen, this would be the business-class laptop to beat.
 
[citation][nom]ap3x[/nom]L What you would pay is based on your requirements. The Thinkpad line of laptops have been the gold standard for business laptops for a long time. This laptop is extremely high quality. They are built like tanks and a jam packed with tech that you might not have a need for. For example, one issue with laptops is that when they fall while active or with the them open, they fail because the hard drive takes damage due to the impact. The first laptop to incorporate an accelerometer to detect a fall and lock the drive so that the heads won't slap the platter was the Macbook Pro, then the Thinkpad. This was a feature over 6 years ago. No one else did it, not HP, not Dell, certainly not any one of the gaming laptop companies that made desktop replacements. Things like keyboard lighting, Macbook Pro did a backlit keyboard with a light sensor to auto adjust the brightness 7-8 years ago, IBM did it with a top light built into the laptop. Believe me, you might not see it from the specs, but you are getting what you paid for in quality components, and intelligent engineering. I can build a high spec box for under 1000, I can't engineer a bunch of necessary or convenient but non marketable protective features for under 1000. My time alone to design that would cost more.[/citation]
I absolutely love my ThinkPad that I have at work. The thing takes some serious abuse, has great battery life (about 6-7 hours) and is quite zippy. Unfortunately, those of us in r+d don't qualify for the tablet versions (because we're not sales) in our company. I would kill for one of those just to make onenote and my electronic lab notebook nicer to use.
 
the only department at which this laptop suck is the GPU, yeah SB integrated GPU is far better then Intel's previews generation but it still far bhinde NVIDIA\ATI.

This laptop with AMD's HD5650 = me pre-ordering it. toss in the external battery solution and id be happy to pay 2200usd for it.
 
[citation][nom]ap3x[/nom]L What you would pay is based on your requirements. The Thinkpad line of laptops have been the gold standard for business laptops for a long time. This laptop is extremely high quality. They are built like tanks and a jam packed with tech that you might not have a need for. For example, one issue with laptops is that when they fall while active or with the them open, they fail because the hard drive takes damage due to the impact. The first laptop to incorporate an accelerometer to detect a fall and lock the drive so that the heads won't slap the platter was the Macbook Pro, then the Thinkpad. This was a feature over 6 years ago. No one else did it, not HP, not Dell, certainly not any one of the gaming laptop companies that made desktop replacements.[/citation]
My Alienware does that, so we can say Dell does that occasionally.
 
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