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With an overall positive review, Walt Mossberg claims the X300 is “a solid, innovative laptop that will be perfect for many mobile PC users.” Making the obvious comparison to its rival, the X300 seems to have a little more to offer feature wise as compared to the MacBook Air, with a few downfalls coming from the operating system and battery life.

“I believe that both the Mac operating system and the software that comes with it are superior to the Windows operating system and built-in software offered on the ThinkPad.”

I have to agree with him on the OS, but this is just a matter of preference and we will also have our personal reasons for which OS we prefer. Mossberg goes on to mention the battery life, which was only slightly less on the X300. The X300 battery life lasted 3 hours and 5 minutes, which is about 24 minutes less than that of the MacBook Air when running similar services. The battery testing was done with the power-saving features turned off, the screen set to be as bright as can be with Wi-Fi turned on and music playing on repeat.

The X300 does have some notable extras over the Air that include an ethernet port, 3 USB ports, internal DVD drive and a removable battery, but that does come with a little more weight. Depending on the configuration of the X300 it can be as much as 3.5-pounds where the MacBook Air comes in at 3-pounds even. A few other options that are available with the X300 are wireless USB, WiMAX, WWAN access and GPS.

Mossberg ends his review with a statement of praise, claiming the ThinkPad X300 is “a notable engineering accomplishment” and would be “perfect for many mobile PC users” assuming they do not mind the price, which will run up to about $3000.

Read [All Things Digital]