This Dell laptop is nearly 35mm thick! I can't use it!
Just think of what it would do for the machine's portability if it was thinner, but measured exactly the same in the other two dimensions! It would be a /revolution/ I tell you.
I have the nc2400, which is the model before the 2510, and I REALLY want to swap mine for the new one.(MAybe if my boss looks away while I configure one for another employee... )
1.2Kg, OK battery life, SD-slot, and can come with a built-in Sierra wireless card...
Thinkpads are generally really well made, though I personally can't stand their keyboards. I have a friend with a Thinkpad tablet which he has stepped on a few times, and it still works great, and he isn't a small guy at all.
Thickness isn't a real performance metric for laptops. As long as they're not absurdly thick, then weight is the stat you look for. And this thing weighs significantly less than the Air. Honestly I think that it weighs less than just about any laptop with an optical drive, definitely less than anything with that size of screen.
I'm so glad people started finally going with higher resolution on the 13 inch LCDs. There was no reason for me to even consider one when I can get the same number of pixels on a screen thats 3 inches smaller.
I'd probably get a Fujitsu P8010... but thats probably just because I like smallish Lifebooks.
I don't know what spec was read by the person who said the X300 weighs "significantly less than the Air", but according to Apple's website, the Macbook Air weighs 1.36 kg. ("Actual weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process")
Nonetheless, the X300 seems like a much more usable machine. Are we all aware that the Air has *no*ethernet*port*??? And a lot of other missing bits.
I will grant you, the Air is very pretty, but.. well, Paris H isn't too bad either if we limit ourselves to such parameters..
Because HP needs to die. Slowly and painfully for maximum satisfaction, but plain bog-standard dying will do. Including specifically Capellas and Fiorina, who've gone elsewhere.
You know their slogan? "HP - Invent". They stopped after inventing how to make money from pigments, and they wouldn't know excellent tech if it did the full-blown extended hardcore dancing on the piano act, with a strobe-lit fluo-hot-pink tutu and accompanied by several dozen Klaxons and a couple of air-raid sirens.
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David Gosnell
What no Macbook Air thickness comparison? #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 12:12 GMT
This is thinner :-)
Glad Apple didn't keep their phoney title (it was never true anyway) for long.
Peter W
why would you buy this? #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 12:13 GMT
when you can get virtually the same for half the price by buying a HP 2510p.....
oh, and get the xp version. Vista is tosh.
Pete James
Nice #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 12:48 GMT
Very nice, too expensive. Still better than the MacBook Air mind.
simon
Thickness ???? #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 13:04 GMT
who has ever said "I cant use this laptop, its just too thick" God help us all from the apple marketing hype
IanPotter
@What no Macbook Air thickness comparison? #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 13:13 GMT
Thickness in Macbook Airs should be added to the Register standard weights and measures forthwith.
Paris, as her thickness knows no bounds...
Geoff Mackenzie
@simon #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 13:20 GMT
This Dell laptop is nearly 35mm thick! I can't use it!
Just think of what it would do for the machine's portability if it was thinner, but measured exactly the same in the other two dimensions! It would be a /revolution/ I tell you.
Rik
@Peter W #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 13:20 GMT
>why would you buy this?
>when you can get virtually the same for half the price by buying a HP 2510p.....
Here's a Service Message for you from the Department of the Bleedingly Obvious: because when you buy a HP, you get a HP. Which is not a Thinkpad.
Anonymous Coward
@simon #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 14:13 GMT
Thickness of laptops is an issue to people who don't want to carry them from one office to another .... if its thin enough they can use internal mail
Bracken Dawson
untitled #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 14:13 GMT
It fits in a Manilla Envelope AND it has an optical drive!
Joel
@ Rik #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 14:13 GMT
Excellent point.
Trygve Henriksen
And getting a HP is bad, because? #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 14:15 GMT
I have the nc2400, which is the model before the 2510, and I REALLY want to swap mine for the new one.(MAybe if my boss looks away while I configure one for another employee... )
1.2Kg, OK battery life, SD-slot, and can come with a built-in Sierra wireless card...
And yes, you want to avoid running Vista on it.
Phillip Ingham
X300 ??? Haven't I heard that before.... #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 15:30 GMT
Didn't Dell have a line of small slim-line notebooks branded Dell Latitude X300 about 3 years ago?
ThinkPads are just too over-priced with poor after sales support.
GoatBoy3000
It's kak! #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 16:44 GMT
This thing is just too thick.
Anonymous Coward
Thinkpads - "poor after sales support"? #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 18:53 GMT
Haven't heard that before... have you ever used a Thinkpad? Do you expect reliability in a computer? No, I thought not.
Nexox Enigma
Probably worth the price... #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 21:22 GMT
Thinkpads are generally really well made, though I personally can't stand their keyboards. I have a friend with a Thinkpad tablet which he has stepped on a few times, and it still works great, and he isn't a small guy at all.
Thickness isn't a real performance metric for laptops. As long as they're not absurdly thick, then weight is the stat you look for. And this thing weighs significantly less than the Air. Honestly I think that it weighs less than just about any laptop with an optical drive, definitely less than anything with that size of screen.
I'm so glad people started finally going with higher resolution on the 13 inch LCDs. There was no reason for me to even consider one when I can get the same number of pixels on a screen thats 3 inches smaller.
I'd probably get a Fujitsu P8010... but thats probably just because I like smallish Lifebooks.
Ryan Stewart
daddy wants #
Posted Tuesday 26th February 2008 21:22 GMT
I kind of want to replace my D420 with this. Its only downside is, like the air, they stupidly make it at 13"er.
I love the wicked small footprint of my bad boy but no optical drive or LED screen kinda makes it sooooo 2007...
Phil Koenig
Spec comparison #
Posted Wednesday 27th February 2008 02:52 GMT
I don't know what spec was read by the person who said the X300 weighs "significantly less than the Air", but according to Apple's website, the Macbook Air weighs 1.36 kg. ("Actual weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process")
Nonetheless, the X300 seems like a much more usable machine. Are we all aware that the Air has *no*ethernet*port*??? And a lot of other missing bits.
I will grant you, the Air is very pretty, but.. well, Paris H isn't too bad either if we limit ourselves to such parameters..
Rik
@And getting a HP is bad, because? #
Posted Wednesday 27th February 2008 03:00 GMT
Because HP needs to die. Slowly and painfully for maximum satisfaction, but plain bog-standard dying will do. Including specifically Capellas and Fiorina, who've gone elsewhere.
You know their slogan? "HP - Invent". They stopped after inventing how to make money from pigments, and they wouldn't know excellent tech if it did the full-blown extended hardcore dancing on the piano act, with a strobe-lit fluo-hot-pink tutu and accompanied by several dozen Klaxons and a couple of air-raid sirens.
James Henstridge
13 inch? #
Posted Wednesday 27th February 2008 08:56 GMT
This looks like a nice upgrade for the T series thinkpads.
But what I'd really like is a widescreen upgrade for the X series: same width as an X60 but not quite as deep, and with a higher resolution screen.
I hope that branding this laptop as the X300 doesn't mean the X series will be growing in size
Elijah
It has a touch/pointer stick!!! #
Posted Wednesday 27th February 2008 20:49 GMT
I want one! Mac notebooks do not have this super efficient tool on them. I hate notebooks without them. The pointerstick saves so much time!!
This is a very nice notebook. It would be nice to have Firewire port and a eSata port too but oh well.
I think I may be buying me one of these in the future and put a Kalyway OS X on it. Unless Apple decides to sell their OS for Non-Mac hardware.
Nice stuff! I especially like the SDD! Have to swap it out with a Mtron or Samsung 128 GB!
Jason Tan
@spec comparison #
Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 17:59 GMT
Why limit the assessment of Paris to aesthetics, where as you say she is not too bad?
After all we have video evidence she puts out, and she has a lovely bank balance.
Wrap her up. I'll take her!