Ultraportable Laptop – Lenovo ThinkPad X60s

After a few days of reminiscing over old computers, let’s move on to some of the latest models available. This ThinkPad X60s is an outstanding ultraportable notebook for business users and anyone else wanting a very well-designed machine. It replaces the old ThinkPad X41 series and is part of the Lenovo Top Seller Programme.
Here is a quick summary of its pros and cons.

Pros

• Very fast
• Well designed
  

Cons

• Expensive
• No touchpad
  

The model I’ll introduce to you here, the 17024EM model, uses an Intel Core Duo processor L2400 1.66GHz with 512MB of RAM and 60GB hard drive. I strongly recommend increasing the memory to 1GB. The 1.66GHz L2400 has excellent performance which exceeds the 1.73GHz Pentium M 740 chips and generally matches up with 1.86GHz Pentium M 750 CPUs. The X60s also provides outstanding battery life of up to 7.9 hours from its 8 Cell Lithium-Ion battery.

In addition to its superb performance, this ThinkPad is very well designed - the layout and keystrokes of the keyboard are fabulous. You’ll also find dedicated keys for volume, Lenovo’s productivity centre and other useful utilities. The 1.60 Kgs X60s includes three USB ports, one FireWire port, and slots for SD and PC Cards.

The X60s would be a very impressive notebook except for two things it is missing. One is the build-in optical drive - you have to use the dock or an external drive in order to read or burn CDs/DVDs. The second is the lack of a touchpad - it only has an eraserhead pointing device. Some people like me, may still prefer to have a touchpad.

For more information and pricing of this great notebook, click the link - Lenovo ThinkPad X60s Notebook - TopSeller