The ThinkPad is a famous entity in the world of business notebooks. And it brought with itself a host of expectations. The X300 is a sturdy looking machine encased in black plastic and boasts of a solid build quality. It has a 13.3-inch display which was surprisingly dull, especially when compared with the other ultraportables in our comparison. For connectivity options, the ThinkPad does have a number of ports and it also manages a DVD combo writer in its slim chassis. Wi-Fi access is made easier thanks to a physical switch to turn it on or off. Of course, there is the ThinkPad’s trademark red trackpad amidst the keys on the keyboard, which makes navigation using the mouse cursor a whole lot easier than just using a regular touchpad. Also, the Thinkpad’s keyboard has the right tacticle feel and the keys are spaced well, making this the best keyboard among the others.
As a portable device, the X300 makes sense as it weighs just 1.6 kg and managed to stay alive on its battery for about 260 minutes during our tests. Plus, its wireless connection also supports draft-N, so browsing on a faster draft-N network is supported. The X300 comes with a 1.2Ghz Core 2 Duo L7100 processor, 2GB of Ram and a 64GB SSD. However, its performance was quite disappointing during our tests. For example, in World Bench 6, it only managed 53 points, the lowest in the comparison. Its Intel GMA X3100 onboard graphics was also not enough to give us good performance. Its speakers though were the best in the comparison and produced loud and clear music.
The low performance scores of the X300 can be blamed on the fact that it was released in the first quarter of last year. But it still carries a pretty high price tag of Rs. 1,27,000. Overall, though the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 is a very good portable companion if you can afford to overlook its below-par performance and price.
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