Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Review Discussion

[Jerry Jackson]

Lenovo's newest 12-inch business notebook, the ThinkPad X220, offers the latest Intel Sandy Bridge processors, a high-quality IPS display, and battery life that is so incredible you've got to see it to believe it. Keep reading to find out more about what is sure to be a very popular business laptop.

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[Charles P. Jefferies]

You had me at the IPS display.

Amazing battery life, great keyboard, and the excellent Z7K320 drive (which is single platter) . . . where do I sign?

[Bhima]

I would be all over this laptop if it was at least 14" with at least 1680x1050 screen resolution... at 12.5" and only 1366x768, I just can't use Adobe products and have all those palettes eating up the entire screen. Still, to see another IPS panel in a laptop is always a good sign. Hopefully it starts a trend that makes IPS a bit more available in other laptops.

[MidnightSun]

An amazing ultraportable - if I had the money, this would've been my next computer. Glad that IPS is finally making more of an inroads into more mainstream computers--perhaps the X240 will be my next laptop a few years later

Great review as always, Jerry.

One minor typo:

This is still an issue with the touchpad on the X220, but the drivers that Lenovo uses result in fewer "jumping cursor" problems than what we've seen on many other buttonless touchpads.

[coldmack]

I may have to get this depending on what HP does with the 2540 update(prefer my optical drive built in). Then again once the IPS screened tablet comes to the outlet store I may have to really bite. Hmmm.

Kind of a shame usb 3.0 is an option only in the high spec models.

[srs]

Wow. This is the first Thinkpad I'm excited about since the z61t. The only two nitpicks I would make is the thick bezel around the screen. Its almost like it would have been perfect for a 16:10 screen instead of a 16:9

The second is the weight. A sub 3 lb machine would be very nice indeed. Maybe we'll see a x220s?

[lenardg]

@Jerry,
Can you tell us a bit more about the latchless design? Does it work well? Does it keep the lid in place? Magnets? Opinions?

[Aikimox]

Wow. This is the first Thinkpad I'm excited about since the z61t. The only two nitpicks I would make is the thick bezel around the screen. Its almost like it would have been perfect for a 16:10 screen instead of a 16:9

The second is the weight. A sub 3 lb machine would be very nice indeed. Maybe we'll see a x220s?

So true!

[jaakobi]

so if it's 8.75 hours for the 6 cell, it'll be about 13 hours with 9 cell, and 22 hours with 9 cell and slice. Pretty nice that Lenovo's estimate isn't too far off.

[Quicklite]

This is stunning! Could even put i7 into it!?!

Didn't expect them to pull it off. Unlike their usual incremental updates, they've even timed the reviews release and announcement close together, for a change - if anything, the battery really seems driven to show off the capability R&D department.

Just nitpicking, notice once you attach the slice, the bottom is almost flat. Wish they could streamline the laptop itself too. That's not likely to happen, having to support so many docking options, they're pretty much stuck with it, so as to say.

Speaking of review samples, they are mostly 35W dual-core systems. As oppose to the even higher end i7. It's understandable, despite the small difference in numbering, the latter does draw 10-20W more on load - which could really eat into the battery friendly image.

That said, this system looks very awesome!