[General] Thinkpad X300 vs. Macbook Air

[Bashar Al-Abdulhadi]

Mashallah nice blogpost


i thought X300 only comes with 1.2Ghz, where did you read its possible 
to upgrade to 2.0Ghz ?



Majed B. wrote, On 3/3/2008 3:53 AM:

> I did a full spec discet on these two hot boxes ... I wouldn't buy any
> for a few reasons:
>
> 1) Lenovo X300 has solid state harddisk ONLY. SSDs aren't good for a
> machine that you intent to keep over 2 years. The disk will wear out
> quickly, if you're a heavy [ab]user.
>
> 2) I'm not a fan of Apple/Mac and their MacBook Air is quite crippled:
> One USB, No internal CD/DVD, battery is soldered & can't be swapped
> out, no built-in Ethernet port, but it does offer the option to have a
> PATA (IDE) hard disk.
>
> I covered the specs here:
> http://mbhtech.blogspot.com/2008/01/macbook-air-vs-lenovo-x300.html
>
> By the way, SSD-based laptop are expensive. Price estimation was
> mentioned here:
> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/234962272/article.pl
>
> The IBM X series of laptops are small, and there are previous models
> that make more sense to be an option more than the X300.
>   
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