Anyone interested in a (PC) travel laptop, the Lenovo 220 may be the best thing out there. 3lbs and a hi-quality screen, etc. Now at a fantastic price of $720 which is about half:
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/c...7758&esrc=VSTA
Anyone interested in a (PC) travel laptop, the Lenovo 220 may be the best thing out there. 3lbs and a hi-quality screen, etc. Now at a fantastic price of $720 which is about half:
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/c...7758&esrc=VSTA
I bought one as soon as it came out..a terrific machine, fast boot, great screen, battery and wt....I know at least one pro that has bought one and loves it as well...He went with the SSD and added a CF card reader...pair with a 1tb passport external and tough to beat.....Lenovo has sales on several right now....ordered the y570 for my wife last night
Michael,
Thanks for the interesting post. The machine looks pretty neat for being so light. I went tot the site several times but could not get the customize and buy to come up. Reading the specs, note there is an I3 and an I5 option (which costs a little more). OK, finally the customize page came up. You can also get an I7 cpu, up to 8 GBytes ram, but unfortunately 320 GB is the largest hard drive. I also could not find if it has USB3 (which is a must for me).
(I've had thinkpads for many years.)
Roger
Roger, is this article relevant ?
http://blog.allusb.com/2011/03/lenov...-offers-usb-3/
These are terrific machines. If you do not see the specs on the website, call them...they are extremely helpful . The 3.0 USB is is the blue port on the port side of the machine. My machine has the I7 with 8gb ram ...also added the Delkin CF card reader to the Express card slot...Also I just bought my wife the Y590 which is a muscle bound machine with SSD and HD...added one magic cable to connect directly to TV....
The X220 is starting at $1659 Australian - you guys get all the breaks!!
Cheers, Jay
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Roger, I put the CF card reader in the express card slot and the USB .3.0 runs a passport 1tb $30
http://www.amazon.com/Delkin-Devices.../dp/B001R4BT8A is the CF2 card reader that I use in the Express card slot..is faster that the external USB 3.0 card reader I was originally using....
It's more than just a CF reader + USB3, for example copying disk to disk. When I'm on a long trip, I back up to at least 2 and preferably 3 external drives. So I need to copy from one drive to another and both should be usb3 to minimize time.
Roger