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The ThinkPad Takes On The MacBook Air

Posted by Zonk on from the battle-for-the-skies dept.

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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  1. Design by Scutter · · Score: 0, Troll

    And yet, somehow it's still just as ugly as every other Thinkpad.

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  2. You know it. by FatSean · · Score: 0, Troll

    W2K stripped down lets me play the few games I enjoy, run eclipse, and waste time on the internet. Plus, I can re-install as often as I like. Someday I'll move to Linux...probably when I can run the latest Civilization game on it.

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  3. Re:I disagree, the Thinkpad is beautiful. by SuperStretchy · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're leaving out the "-that-no-one-cares-to-watch" on the end of the "make-a-home-video"

  4. Re:apple fanbois by hjf · · Score: 0, Troll

    the typo was corrected here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=453880&cid=22419064 stfu cunt :)

  5. I'm still on old hardware by FatSean · · Score: 0, Troll

    2-way AthlonMP 2800+ old! I suppose when the budget allows for an upgrade I will have an OS decision to make.

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