Walt Mossberg Fondles Lenovo ThinkPad X300 revealed Full Specs

Mossberg gets his hands on the new Lenovo ThinkPad X300

Walt Mossberg of All Things Digital is currently in possession of a hot new device that has been considerable interest on the part of readers DailyTech: Lenovo ThinkPad X300.

Given the relatively small and lightweight device chassis, a 2.5 “hard drive would have been too large and power hungry to fit, so Lenovo opted for a 1.8″ form-factor drive. Most 1.8 “HDD spin result in a mediocre performance at 4200 RPM letters, so Lenovo opted to use a 1.8″ solid-state disk (SSD) for better performance.

In addition to the SSD, Mossberg 13.3 points to the “ThinkPad X300 three USB 2.0 ports, optical drive, built-in Ethernet port and optional cellular modem support. Lenovo also made the wise decision to offer customers the choice of Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Mossberg will note that the ThinkPad X300 weighs 3.12 pounds with a standard battery and optical drive. A comparison is made to the Air MacBook light fighting 3 pounds, but Apple achieves put aside all the important things to reach that figure.

Thanks to the images of thinkpads.com Support Community, we have been able to gather some additional information on the ThinkPad X300. The booklet has a 1.2GHz processor Core 2 Duo (SL7100 LV) rated at 12W using a mobile Intel 965GS Express chipset - filtering specifications that detailed a 2.0GHz processor Core 2 Duo sadly mistaken. Another feature that had not previously been discussed over the inclusion of Certified Wireless USB UltraWide Band.

The ThinkPad X300 uses paint rubber on the palms of greater comfort and a new, longer duration of paint to the keyboard (Lenovo said that the last 3-4 times longer than traditional painting). The keyboard is illuminated also through ThinkLight for use in low light.

Since this is a laptop Lenovo, the durability is a key feature. The lower deck of the keyboard and are built with magnesium bezel while the LCD cover is made of plastic reinforced carbon fibre.

According to Mossberg, the ThinkPad X300 will retail between $ 2500 to $ 2800 dollars when is released. This price range backups of recent leaks Best Buy for companies in relation to the price of the ThinkPad X300.

Seeing how Mossberg has a ThinkPad X300 in hand right now, Lenovo may not be far from making an official announcement.