There's no optical drive and while there's no HDMI port, there is a DisplayPort socket, so plan your cabling accordingly. The keyboard is outstanding and typical of the ThinkPad brand. Audio isn't particularly inspiring but it's good enough for a machine of this stature. Lenovo trumpets the X's better-than-average battery life, but in our testing, it hit a mere using the six-cell battery.
Hardly epic, but that's still good. There are a few battery options available as upgrades if you want to stretch your work time. I reserve just one complaint for the X and that is the touchpad design.
The textured surface is pleasing to the touch, but Lenovo has foregone separate buttons in order to maximize the size of the touchpad in a very cramped area.
The bottom portion of the touchpad wraps around the end of the palm rest, and to click you press on these corners of the pad. Unfortunately, something's off with the engineering of this: The pad misses clicks all the time, and it makes the cursor stutter badly when you're subconsciously or not resting a thumb on the pad as you prepare to click.
You get two standard USB 2. Oh, and the engineers at Lenovo also managed to squeeze in a full size 54mm ExpressCard slot for accessories and port expansion. Front: Speaker grills. Rear: AC power jack and battery. Left: USB 2. Editor's Rating. Pros Exceptional performance Amazing battery life Excellent durability Cons Buttonless touchpad may bother some users No docking station pass through on the optional slice battery. CPU options run from Core i3 up to Core i7, but as the X is not officially for sale yet look for it in April , Lenovo hasn't said exactly how much each of these options will cost.
While not as speedy as the quad-core inch Apple MacBook Pro, the X did very well in our benchmark tests, beating out most pre-Sandy Bridge laptops, even high-end desktop replacements. If you have any trouble getting the expected performance out of this laptop, do what we did and check all the power settings in the ThinkVantage software and make sure Intel's Turbo Boost Technology is enabled. With the new Intel platform, you also get vastly improved integrated graphics.
Previous Intel onboard graphics could barely play 3D games, but the ThinkPad X ran Unreal Tournament 3 at 1,xpixel resolution at Your mileage may vary in newer games, of course, so be prepared to dial back the resolution and detail settings in any laptop without discrete graphics.
And besides, this is a business laptop, so you probably shouldn't be playing games on it anyway or at least don't get caught. Lenovo has always prided itself on offering excellent ThinkPad battery life, and Intel has made lofty claims about the power efficiency of its second-gen Core i-series platform. Put those together, and battery expectations are lofty indeed. So it's a good thing that the X ran for 6 hours and 41 minutes in our video playback battery drain test, which is an excellent score for any laptop, and especially for one that demands no real performance compromises.
The inch MacBook Pro ran for about 25 minutes longer, and last year's ThinkPad X was also in the same ballpark, but this is still pretty rarefied air. Lenovo ThinkPads generally include a standard one-year mail-in warranty, which may not be adequate for a mission-critical computer.
In addition to the onboard ThinkVantage troubleshooting and driver update apps, the Lenovo Web site offers the same information, but an actual tech-support contact number can be hard to find although chances are your company IT team would handle any problems with the system. If you do need to call Lenovo, try this support line: Find out more about how we test laptops.
Intel Sandy Bridge whitebox Windows 7 Ultimate bit ; 2. Dan Ackerman. Pricing Not Available. The touch-pad-pointing-stick combo remains an awkward compromise, and as with most ThinkPads you're paying a hefty premium for the sturdy case and business-friendly software. With a Multimedia multitasking test in seconds Shorter bars indicate better performance. Intel Sandy Bridge whitebox
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