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Lenovo ThinkPad X301 review

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Verdict

A light, sturdy and eminently usable business ultraportable, but it's slow and a touch too expensive.

Review Date: 10 Jun 2009

Reviewed By: Mike Jennings

Price when reviewed: £1,603 (£1,843 inc VAT)

Overall Rating
4 stars out of 6

Features & Design
4 stars out of 6

Value for Money
4 stars out of 6

Performance
2 stars out of 6

Battery life, light use
  • ThinkPad X301
  • 391
0
Full working day

The light-use test is the absolute longest you can expect the battery to last with careful power management.

Battery life, heavy use
  • ThinkPad X301
  • 124
0
Full working day

The intensive-use score is the battery life during very demanding, CPU and hard disk-intensive operations with power management turned off.

Overall application benchmark score
  • ThinkPad X301
  • 0.78
0
3.2GHz Pentium D PC

PC Pro's application benchmarks test real-world performance in a range of applications. Click here

3D performance (crysis) low settings
  • ThinkPad X301
  • 4fps
0
Smoothly playable

Our 3D gaming benchmarks test gaming performance in Crysis, which remains one of the most challenging games available. Setting is 1,024 x 768 at low detail.

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