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Thinkpad X300 With SSD Performance Evaluation

Posted by Zonk on from the solid-gone-man dept.

Ninjakicks writes "Hard drives are typically one of the more significant performance bottlenecks in any system today. An evaluation of Lenovo's new ultra portable Thinkpad X300 notebook shows a fast solid state hard drive can substantially improve the performance of a system. This is especially true of a low-end, low power processor and integrated graphics, in addition to reducing overall power consumption. Despite its 1.2GHz CPU the Thinkpad X300 is actually able to outperform some desktop replacement notebooks equipped with dual 7200RPM hard drives in RAID 0 in productivity benchmarks, and in data transfers. Interesting results, especially considering the X300's ultra portable form factor."

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  1. Exceptional Battery Life by zedlander · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out the comparison on the next page. The Thinkpad got almost 3 times the battery life of the Dell, coming in at close to 4 hours.

  2. Re:Interesting idea for older notebooks by jackharrer · · Score: 4, Informative

    I did it with my Media Centre PC. Old Compaq Presario 900. I bought dirt cheap CompactFlash to IDE 44 converter and put it instead of HDD. Mythbuntu start in half of the time, even that throughput of CF is almost the same as HDD. Best of all that SSD cost me £15 for 4GB. Straight from eBay.

    Do it, it works brilliant.

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    "an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often, quite often, picturesque liar" - Mark Twain
  3. Re:Lenovo Hardware is Unreliable Junk by StarHeart · · Score: 5, Informative

    My office uses Thinkpads exclusively. I would say maybe the failure has gone up some since Lenovo took over, but depot times have always been fast. I just turned in a hard drive RMA today, and I will probably have it with advanced replacement by Monday.

    They also seem to be having sales all the time these days. Which means prices have come down.

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    Havoc Penington, the bane of my Linux desktop.
  4. Re:Lenovo Hardware is Unreliable Junk by amirulbahr · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is FUD. I can see why you posted as AC.

    AFAIK Lenovo bought IBM PC Division in its entirety. In other words the ThinkPads are still being made by the same entity.

    In our experience, maybe things have changed in terms of design choices on the newer models, but the service level and DOA rate has not changed all that much at all. In some territories support is still being outsourced by Lenovo to IBM.