It's been some time considering the fact that we remaining reviewed a portable system from Lenovo. You may recall, their IdeaPad S10 became our top pick out inside the netbook round-up we published over a year ago for handing over the most stable bundle between the keyboard, screen and construct quality.

The ThinkPad Edge notebook that we are going to be searching at nowadays is a part of an all-new series from Lenovo introduced early this yr at CES. The ThinkPad Edge blends a number of the things we favored at the IdeaPad with the strength and legacy of ThinkPads.

Aimed at style- and budget-conscious commercial enterprise users, this system features some firsts from Lenovo, like a new keyboard format and a low access rate for ThinkPads at just $579. We acquired the Midnight Black Gloss version that you can see under, however the Edge also is available in Midnight Black Smooth (matte) and Heatwave Red Gloss. Once once more, a departure from the spartan seems commonly used on ThinkPads.

Entry stage fashions come geared up with AMD Athlon Neo X2 processors, which may be upgraded to an Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor. Our overview unit makes use of the Intel CPU running at 1.three GHz in conjunction with an Intel GS45 chipset and 4500MHD integrated photos. There's additionally 4GB of DDR3 reminiscence, a 320GB difficult force spinning at 7200 RPM, Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 wireless, and a thirteen.three-inch LCD panel providing a 1366 x 768 resolution.

That's the identical decision supported by means of the MSI X-Slim X340 we these days reviewed. The ThinkPad Edge is also clocked slightly slower than the aforementioned X340 and the Acer Timeline 4810T, but those two structures have been Core 2 Solo structures, whereas the ThinkPad Edge is working with a dual-center part which have to bring about a pleasant overall performance side -- no pun supposed.

Lenovo lists the ThinkPad Edge dimensions as 332 mm x 228 mm x 17-31.three mm (thirteen.07" x eight.98" x zero.67-1.23") with an approximate weight of three.6 kilos when using a four-mobile battery, or four.5 kilos with the 6-cell battery option. Lenovo sums up the appearance and feel of Edge in two phrases: state-of-the-art simplicity. Read on as we explore its functions inside and out.