Lenovo ThinkPad X1
The business laptops has always been dominated by the ThinkPad series. Thus this time as well some powerful changes the Lenovo ThinkPad has made some improvement in the designs and packaging of the ThinkPad and to be honest it has come out to be wonderful. Though there has been some flaws but at the bottom line you should be able to find more of advantages.
Beautiful Design
The design of the new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 is a pleasing change as it bring a completely new design to the ThinkPad series for good reasons. The new design covers the Laptop with the rubber like covering which has a soft touch. The new look of ThinkPad is lot clean and has covered the battery with less number of visible port as they all ore covered by the new covering giving the Laptop a whole new and cleaner look. The interior of the Laptop is equally beautiful and has island style keyboard with end to end Corning Gorilla Glasswhich is scratch resistance.
Configuration Options
The new ThinkPad X1 starts for a price of $1400 and can easily get you the best in the market like 4 GB of RAM with MAX turbo of 2.5GHz Intel Core i5-2520M. Where as when it comes to Hard Drive you get 320 GB of 7,200rmp which is fast. However you can any time add Intel Core i7 CPU with 8 GB of RAM at cost of $150. The Laptop also come s with the preloaded software like Web Conferencing which allows you to control the setting of the Web camera and Mice and lets to cut the noise made by the keyboard.
Input /Output
The new model from Lenovo has the speakers equipped with the Dolby Sound and are located under the palm rest and has a good volume. The speakers are good for the business laptop and the if you connect the headphone the quality increased with better result. The USB 3.0 port that is included is also an added advantage along with the 1 USB 2.0 and one 1 USB 2.0/ eSATA along with the SD card slot.
Performance
The lack of dedicated graphic cards is a draw back but not a major one as it may not interest may of business userto use the Laptop for Games. The best could be they may try some strategy based games which should be fine with the Intel's integrated graphics HD 3000.The battery life of the Laptop is not as good as you would have wished for,
however a running the Laptop for 3hrs and then traveling back to the power supply may not be that big of a problem. Lenovo also gives you an option to add and addition battery which would come for another $150. Thus if you look at the bottom line it is a powerful Laptop with an option to pick a below average battery or pay and get 5 hrs. of battery backup.
