LENOVO THINKPAD SL300 REVIEW

ThinkPad SL300 – Offers more than any 13.3 inch in the market

The ThinkPad SL300 is Lenovo's innovative 13.3" budget business laptop which proffers many of the identical features you would discover on the T/X/R-series laptops, but at a much subordinate price. The SL-series is Lenovo's reply to the Vostro line-up from Dell.

Design
Build superiority is just higher than average, with a hard-wearing sense, but not as burly as what you might find in the R or T series variants. Some gentle flex does establish in the palm rest, and the underside of the laptop has more give under stress, such as gripping the periphery while carrying the laptop around. Fit and finish could be enhanced in a few areas, such as the Touch Point buttons which are too secure to the apex edge of the palm rest, and whine when pressed. While this is a fairly negligible assembly imperfection, the echelon of annoyance is similar to walking around with a shoe covered with water, squeaking everywhere you stride.

Performance
System presentation was outstanding with the 2.4GHz Intel P8600 Core 2 Duo processor and NVIDIA 9300M graphics. The laptop was very snappy with a speedy boot-time, and applications unbolted without any pause. Synthetic benchmarks also supported up many of our subjective system recital findings, with PCMark05 reaching higher than 5,500, 3DMark06 above 1,500, and wPrime around 30 seconds. While it may not be in the similar territory as gaming rigs, it is more than competent for its projected audience of diminutive businesses.

The LED-backlit Vibrant View exhibit established on the SL300 rates above average and was extremely easy on the eyes. The keyboard on the SL300 is extremely firm around the perimeter, and even higher than the optical drive cavity, shows diminutive to no flex underneath firm pressure. Port assortment on the SL300 is extremely fastidious, offering an extensive range of ports that don't always crop up on 13.3" laptops. This ThinkPad offers 3 USB ports, FireWire, HDMI and VGA, LAN, modem, and also a multi-card reader.

The SL300 sustained itself fairly well in our off-the-grid testing, accomplishing almost 4 hours of battery sprint life on the 6-cell battery. This is with the screen backlight at 60%, wireless enabled and incredibly light web browsing bustle. With wireless disabled, the anticipated time remaining jumped approximately 30 minutes.

Overall
The tech savvy world is racing ahead with loads of functioned puzzled in the confines of the most cost efficient notebooks, The SL300 fro the house of Lenovo is no exception. The build is a typical Lenovo life-line, but a bit on the squeaky side. The port selection is typical of its kind and the product is in line with the quality that Lenovo has sustained in the market. A decent product for the money spent.

Pros
+ It’s a Lenovo package
+ Snappy performance
+ Ports selection is above expectations

Cons
- Build quality a bit of a worry

Value For Money

Our Rating