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| Screen Quality | 6.5/10  |
|---|---|
| Battery Life | 4/10 |
| Ease of Use | 7/10 |
| Value for Money | 5.5/10 |
| Overall rating | 7.5/10 |
By panda1
on 18th Mar 2007
| Time Laptop Owned | Over 1 Year |
|---|---|
| Screen Quality | 7/10 |
| Battery Life | 3/10 |
| Ease of Use | 8/10 |
| Value for money | 5/10 |
| Overall value | 7/10 |
 panda1's recommendation | |
IBM build quality with a titanium body, superior keyboard makes typing more of an ease than a chore to use, compact flash slot, the trackpoint mouse is a big personal preference. User upgradeable for the hard disk, memory, communications. I upgraded the memory to 2GB, hard disk 100GB 7200RPM, communications-adding wifi capability 802.11a/b/g from the original which wasn't really difficult. I maxed out almost everything I could after market.
Weak, poor battery performance, no integrated optical drive, must be external through USB or optional IBM Thinkpad X3 Media Slice to attach an optical drive underneath which adds considerably more weight, height to the overall dimensions, looses its sex appeal for the added functionality.
The IBM X series is IBM's smallest and lightest offering with the exception of lacking optical drive support built in, is IBM's preferred machine for it's small size, function, sex appeal as long as you're plugged into AC power, or carry a couple of extra batteries to change out if not near an AC power source. It's the definitive size to take onto airlines or general traveling about for portable computing. This is an older machine, but still quite usable, the compact flash comes in handy without having to go through a USB port.
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