The ThinkPad Takes On The MacBook Air

An anonymous reader writes "Walt Mossberg has an early look at the ThinkPad X300, Lenovo's answer to the MacBook Air. He says the ThinkPad is almost as skinny and light as the Air, but has many of the ports and features lacking on Apple's machine. The biggest downside: it costs much more and will be limited to a paltry 64 gigabytes of storage. 'Unlike the Apple, which can be ordered with a higher-capacity, lower-priced hard disk, the new ThinkPad will only be available with the expensive, limited capacity solid-state drive. So it will start at between $2,500 and $2,800-up to $1,000 more than the Apple's base price.'"

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Re:I disagree, the Thinkpad is beautiful.

[techpawn]

You still use floppy discs?

At the time of the iMac floppies where still going strong, and if I remember right the optical wasn't a burner either (at least on the base model). So, you really couldn't take data OFF it in a removable/rewriteable format.

FDISK and small utilities I still use floppies for because I'll have booted the machine with a boot/run Linux CD like InsertLinux, but there are some utilities that my disk doesn't have. Anything else I need for moving data it's generally flash memory sticks FTW unless it's across a network...

It's hard to beat the price of Apple hardware.

[BrunoUsesBBEdit]

Despite all the hate levied on Apple and complaints of their hardware being too expensive, it's hard to find a better price on EQUIVALENT hardware. I have issued this challenge many times before and have rarely seen it accepted. And the response is always arguable at best.

Posts links to an Apple computer and a lower priced name brand machine with equal or better specs including processor cache and bus speed.

I've gone into detail on this before, but in short Apple only sells the latest technology. For each product grade they have 3 offerings. You see cheap Dell's because they continue to sell 5+ year old technology. If you want to save money on dated Apple technology hit a reseller like Small Dog.