SanDisk Providing SSD for World’s Lightest 14-Inch Ultrabook

[exfileme]

Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon is using SanDisk's X100 SSD.

SanDisk Providing SSD for World’s Lightest 14-Inch Ultrabook : Read more

 

[kcorp2003]

the base line price starts at $1,249.00 with this tiered pricing, you can't upgrade to 8GB, the CPU is i5-3317U with 1600x900 & 128GB SSD. However with 6 hours of battery, can't cut it for me. I need at least 9 solid hours. I have a 12 hour work schedule.

 

[crisan_tiberiu]

[citation][nom]kcorp2003[/nom]the base line price starts at $1,249.00 with this tiered pricing, you can't upgrade to 8GB, the CPU is i5-3317U with 1600x900 & 128GB SSD. However with 6 hours of battery, can't cut it for me. I need at least 9 solid hours. I have a 12 hour work schedule.[/citation]

12 hr on battery? i dont believe that ^- you do what? keep PC @ idle? maybe check facebook every 3 hrs?

 

[kcorp2003]

[citation][nom]crisan_tiberiu[/nom]12 hr on battery? i dont believe that ^- you do what? keep PC @ idle? maybe check facebook every 3 hrs?[/citation]

i didn't say 12 hours of battery. i said 9 hours. i go to school and work. DBA and a java programmer for con edison. + other work loads from school.

Anyways Acer S7 promises about 9 hours.

 

[livebriand]

[citation][nom]kcorp2003[/nom]i didn't say 12 hours of battery. i said 9 hours. i go to school and work. DBA and a java programmer for con edison. + other work loads from school. Anyways Acer S7 promises about 9 hours.[/citation]
The Thinkpad T430 gets 15 hours with the 9-cell battery, and 30 if you add in the sheet battery.

 

[romansky]

Meh, no IPS no thanks!
Plus, memory is not upgradable, and so is the SSD, lenovo droped the ball on this one.

 

[kcorp2003]

[citation][nom]livebriand[/nom]The Thinkpad T430 gets 15 hours with the 9-cell battery, and 30 if you add in the sheet battery.[/citation]

thanks, yeah i saw a co-worker with one. I think i may have to do the same. I can handle 4.77 lbs

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]kcorp2003[/nom]the base line price starts at $1,249.00 with this tiered pricing, you can't upgrade to 8GB, the CPU is i5-3317U with 1600x900 & 128GB SSD. However with 6 hours of battery, can't cut it for me. I need at least 9 solid hours. I have a 12 hour work schedule.[/citation]
Yea I'd rather take a Asus U24E small laptop with a 2.8GHZ/3.5GHZ regular CPU for $800..

 

[techcurious]

These 2nd Generation ultrabooks have extremely frugal sleep modes. And they come out of sleep mode incredibly fast! I doubt you need your PC active for 9 hours do you? If not, just reduce the delay for entering sleep mode to save more power. The only thing I find really disappointing is that these latest high end portable computers still do not offer at least a single thunderbolt port. Considering how virtually impossible they are to upgrade, a single thunderbolt port would be perfect to dock your ultrabook to an external storage device and other external upgrades like monitors, etc.

 

[southernshark]

6 hours does not take a student through a school day.

Bottom line its all fail.

Rant all you want about how students can do XYZ to keep their laptop alive. None of that makes a damn bit of difference in the real world.

 

[ojas]

I wonder when Tom's will review this...