IBM ThinkPad X30 : a ideal traveling notebook

IBM ThinkPad X30 review

IBM’s ThinkPad X30 is an ideal travelling companion: it's light enough to carry but comfortable to use, and it packs sufficient power and Thinkpad X30 battery life. It is smaller than the vaguely A4 format common to most portables and as a result it's much more suitable for the regular traveller. The 273mm x 223mm (W x D) footprint makes this Thinkpad one of those machines that could, at a pinch, fit inside a briefcase. At 1.65kg, it is also light enough to be carried in this way.

The screen is as large as it reasonably can be in the circumstances, which gives it a 12.1-inch diagonal.Native 1,024 by 768 resolution, which means that text and buttons aren’t especially large, but on balance we feel that the size/resolution combination stays on the right side of usable.

A travelling notebook must be durable, or it will soon die, so we were happy to find that the Thinkpad X30 is largely encased in titanium alloy, including the vital, screen-saving lid surface. Unlike many ultraportables, it has enough ports to make it usable without a docking base, including parallel and VGA, twin USB sockets, FireWire, plus LAN and modem jacks. It also reaches out invisibly via both 802.11b (Wi-Fi) wireless networking hardware and an equally hidden Bluetooth adapter.

Better still, when we came to the IBM ThinkPad X30 battery rundown test, we got a very encouraging 3 hours 37 minutes under Battery Mark 4.0.1 from the primary 4,400 mAh Li-ion battery. IBM supplies a secondary ThinkPad X30 battery pack which clips onto the base, adding somewhat to the bulk and bringing the weight up to 2.1kg. With this unit on-board, battery life rises to a very impressive 6 hours 57 minutes -- in other words, London to New York with a bit to spare.

The X30 is backed by IBM’s three-year international carry-in warranty, which brings a degree of peace of mind to the deal and goes some way towards justifying the price. In all, The IBM Thinkpad X30 is an excellent sub-A4 notebook offering speed, great battery life and good ergonomics in a light, robust and compact package . That means it doesn't come cheap.

ThinkPad x30 Key Specs

Processor manufacturer: Intel

Processor model: Mobile Pentium III-M

Clock speed: 1.2 GHz

RAM installed: 256 MB

Wireless LAN: 802.11b

Hard drive size: 40 GB

Graphics processor: Intel Extreme Graphics

Graphics RAM: 48 MB

Display diagonal size: 2.1 in

Dimensions (W x H x D): 27.3x3x22.3 cm

Weight: 1.65 kg

Operating system: Windows XP Professional.




In the end, we must prepare a IBM ThinkPad X30 Battery replacement to replace our original battery when original battery over-discharged. The original battery code is 02K7039, 02K7040, 08K8035, 08K8036, 08K8039, 08K8040, 08K8045, 08K8048, 92P1097.

At last IBM ThinkPad X30 is a historical notebook, as the ibm pc department has been purchased buy lenovo. From now on the IBM Logo exit from the thinkpad x30 crust, in that time its name is lenovo thinkpad x30.