Lenovo probably wouldn’t admit it, but you get the impression they’re quite pleased with how they managed to crash the ultraportable party. Apple’s achingly-thin MacBook Air seemingly had just scant moments to enjoy the limelight, before leaked detailsof Lenovo’s own, Windows based rebuke, the X300, started to turn up. Before long, the company was putting out adverts surreptitiously suggesting that the Air’s compromises for extreme thinness and lack of connectivity meant that, unlike the DVD and ethernet toting X300, it couldn’t quite be called a “fully featured” ultraportable. It’s rare for a Windows machine manufacturer to try to so resolutely dismiss Apple – there’s usually at least a grudging respect – so when Lenovo sent an X300 to SlashGear we were keen to see how well it lived up to the claims.

Measuring 317 x 226 x 22mm and weighing 1.45kg, the X300 has roughly the same footprint as the MacBook Air but adds a few millimetres thickness (the Air’s depth is a much-quoted 4-19.4mm, while it weighs a little less than the X300 at 1.36kg). Lenovo make good use of that extra space, though; our review unit has a 1.20GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L7100 (800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache) processor, Intel X3100 graphics, 2GB of RAM (4GB max supported), 64GB SSD, a DVD burner, a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, gigabit ethernet and an internal 3G WWAN modem. Round the edges are 3 USB ports, a D-SUB monitor port, headphone and microphone sockets (doubling as line-out and line-in), while the matte-finish 13.3-inch WXGA+ 1440 x 900 LED backlit display is crowned by an integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam and noise-cancelling microphone. Compared to the Air’s measly one USB, monitor port (albeit DVI-I) and headphone socket, the X300 is far more like a full-sized machine.
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