Lenovo Thinkpad X200

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Unknown on 20.31

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This outstanding notebook PC offers all the features of performance, great battery life and a good keyboard.

Equipped with the new Centrino 2 processor, Lenovo ThinkPad X200 looks like an ultra-light, but can jump and charge a single job. Its battery life is phenomenal, and the keyboard is huge. In short, it is much better than the ThinkPad X61 notebook, which it replaces, and a sure winner for the term executives.
Because they have fewer model, one can imagine that this is a less potent version of the ThinkPad X300, X200, but reality has a newer processor. The X300 has a 13.3-inch screen, however, while the X200 has a 12.1 inch screen. Ah, but what you see when you fire this baby!

In just under 3 pounds with its lightest battery, the X200 weighs a few oz. less than the ThinkPad X61, despite offering the same 12.1-inch wide screen and larger keyboard. The bright little screen has an easy to read, 1280-by-800-pixels resolution, which makes it very comfortable to work on the fly. And integration of the camera keeps you in visual contact with their colleagues.

The new keyboard is as big as the members of the Lenovo ThinkPad T Series, and has all the same services: resistance to spills, and the page devoted to the keys, and important ThinkVantage button. The ThinkVantage application suite offers access to the card user's manual and recovery, security, and other essential public services. A fingerprint reader completes the set. What is missing: a touchpad. Many ThinkPad offers a touch and aneaserhead as pointing devices, but not the X200.

The review unit Lenovo sent us came with 2GB of RAM and a 2.4-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400, and notched WorldBench 6 score of 88, which is only 14 points behind the fastest laptop we've tested to date. As expected, the X200 integrated graphics can handle only simple games. But the battery life of the new X200. Lenovo has expanded its line of battery options to three, dominated by the powerful nine-cell model that our X200 carried. Despite this battery extends the back of the computer for about half an inch and the unit weight of 3.7 pounds (adapter not included), the gain of nearly nine hours of juice on a single charge.

Unless you already have a USB port into the optical drive, you'll pay $ 219 additional for installment Lenovo UltraBase docking for an internal drive bay. (Blu-ray an optical drive costs even more). On the positive side, the modular bay accepts other devices like a second battery or second hard drive. However, the portion of coupling also offers some nifty new connections, including a place to charge an extra battery and a DisplayPort display interface that combines high-definition audio and video in a single connector.

Of course, ultraportable ThinkPad notebooks have always used the space they save by omitting a form of optical drive for laptops add many features that are not within the competence of the same size. The X200 has three USB ports, headphone and microphone ports, a VGA port and an Ethernet connection. You can choose a modem with a five on a memory card slot, or a less expensive configuration offering an SD card slot but no modem.

The X200 feels tough as nails, with a magnesium alloy lid and beyond. An accident-proof solid-state 64GB hard drive is optional (we have a plateau of 160 GB hard drive-based standard, however). For the future improvement of the X200 two slots for memory chips are in a bottom compartment for easy access, and the hard drive can be removed from the right side of the device after a low to unscrew the screw.

A full range of wireless communication is based on 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, WWAN, and even GPS. Later this year, Lenovo offers WiMAX - and a compressed version of the X200. But if all you need is the world's best travel laptop right now, you're looking for in this area.

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