Lenovo ThinkPad X220

It has widescreen of 12.5 inch with HD webcam which is new to this family. It has dual pointing device. The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 with all these features implanted in a 12 inch frame, still gives you the best performance and excellent battery backup. The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 has an unexciting color. At glance ThinkPad X220 looks no different from X201 with only minor difference. The structure of ThinkPad X220 is made from magnesium combined with plastic that make it more durable with matte black rubberized color.

Design

Performance and graphics

Ports and Features

Configuration

Design
The ThinkPad X220 has really tough structure, but the same tried and boxy design. It is made from magnesium and plastic that makes it durable. It has the dimension of 12 X 9.1 X 1.25 inch, with all these features included in ThinkPad X220, it is still extremely thin and light, when compared with other like ThinkPad x201, HP Elite book 2740p, however 13 inch Mac-Book Air is much lighter and thinner. The X220 has complete rubberized lid with metallic logo and raven-black sides, bottom and deck. They have used only in keyboard with bright red track point (that is the red dot in the middle of the keyboard) and light blue Enter key. The Lenovo gives you the fantastic warranty support.

Performance and graphics
The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 with its new Sandy Bridge 2.5GHz Core i5-2520M processor gives you the best performance in its class. When it comes to use for everyday work like working in the MS Word, chatting, checking twitter feeds, browsing internet with number of tabs opened and even doing photo editing, the performance of Lenovo ThinkPad the older Core i3 or i5 processor system.The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 stuck with the Intel's low Integrated HD graphics, that works fine while HD playback and light video editing. While watching videos you won't notice any significant loss of color even when you are standing at 90 degree to any side. But you should not think of playing Games on it.

Ports and Features
The ThinkPad X220 has similar port lay out what we have seen on any 12-inch notebook. It has two standard USB2.0 ports. The X220 also have VGA port and Display Port connection. It also has Gigabit Ethernet and SDHC card reader. They have managed to squeeze in a full size 54mm Express-Card slot. If you still think it's not enough, than there's a docking station connection at the bottom of notebook, so that you can turn 12-inch laptop into a desktop replacement. They have shuffled the location of ports around the ThinkPad X220.

Configuration
The Lenovo X220 comes with 320GB of hard drive that runs with the speed of 7,200rpm and it has 4GB of DDR3 RAM memory. Moreover Lenovo X220 will be available with SSD options and Lenovo's Rapid-Drive solution that can pairs SSD and hard drive. It has Intel Core i5-2520 processor installed on it, which gives you the best and fast performance. But it is not meant for playing the games.

With its battery backup of about 7 hrs and 19 min and new Intel Core i5-2520 processor, which gives you the best performance in its class and tough design is good for business use only but not for gamming purpose.