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Lenovo has introduced a 13-inch business laptop along the lines of its ThinkPad series of laptops. As portability has become a primary factor of marketing, Lenovo has also contributed its share of a light weight and thin notebook to the community with the ThinkPad X1.

Design:
As a typical ThinkPad family member, the X1 machines have a solid and durable build. These notebooks also come with matte-rubber finish that is resistant from smudges and scratches without disappointing the ThinkPad fans. Interestingly, the full-size keyboard comes with drain holes and makes it totally spill-resistant but however, lighter than the lid as the screen uses strong gorilla glass.

Technical Specifications:
Clearly being a business laptop, the X1 comes with whole lot of mighty configuration options. They are packed with 2nd generation Intel i3, i5 and i7 processors at 2.10, 2.50 and 2.70 Ghz respectively and the worth mentioning the different sizes of solid state drive hard disks that are faster for normal processing. The x1 supports up to 8GB DDR3 memory as it is almost mandatory in any business laptop. Although these notebooks come with integrated batteries with a standby time of 5 hours, there is the provision to use the slice battery which could extend the life to additional 5 hours!

Cons:
• The integrated battery as in apple books cannot be replaced.
• A little overpriced.

Comment:
This is one of the best consumer friendly business laptop available in the market currently.

Lenovo ThinkPad T410 offers the shiny matte-black chassis and palmrest, and still uses the strong and highly visible stainless steel screen hinges. The bottom has a user-access panel to let users install more RAM or a wireless card without tearing apart the notebook, but this is the weakest part on the entire notebook at the same time. The screen and its display are good. Horizontal viewing angles are better with colors staying accurate even from steep angles. Ports and features are great: 4 USB ports, VGA-out, DisplayPort-out, combo audio jack, modem, LAN, FireWire-400, optional eSATA, as well as an optional SmartCard slot. The noise, the pitch of the fan, could be annoying.

Lenovo ThinkPad X201 is a super-portable laptop, great for business use.  Though it is the best to carry it anywhere (it weighs only 3.95lb), its keyboard size is not small. This may be good for some people to type on, but the palmrest is probably too short to support your wrist.  Among the same 12-inch laptops, this is built very tough. However, the display is not too great in color saturation and contrast though this is rather common downside to most business notebooks.

The Lenovo G550 laptop features a 15.6-inch 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen display and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The G550 offers constant WiFi, Ethernet and optional Bluetooth connectivity. The keyboard is well laid out, and easy to type on.  Its build is simply durable and tough. It is a kind of laptops you can take it with you anywhere.  Thermal performance of the G550 is also  very good.

Lenovo (IBM) ThinkPad is the best for its keyboard. The TrackPoint is located in the middle of the keyboard to assist you. With this, you do not have to leave the keyboard and grab a mouse. Working at night is also fine with this keyboard. ThinkLight will illuminate the whole keyboard area. Performance is excellent, thanks to nVidia graphic card. The T61 managed heat much better than the older T60 under normal use. The laptop is great for business use.

Best Rank Recorded - No.2

Overall Highest Rating By - 9.4

Highest Rating By Users - 9.3