X201s on sale, X201/X201s details
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:42 pm
$1360 for an X201s. This unit has basically everything including a 3 year warranty (recommended warranty). It does not include accident protection which for 3 years is another $170 or so.
http://www.jr.com/lenovo/pe/LEN_514328U/
other places may have the discount as well.
The units, like netbooks, do not come with built-in optical drives but you can purchase a portable USB optical drive for around $60-100 (see newegg.com).
Intel X25-M 160 GB SSD Drives go for about $300 ish on ebay.com (new). 80 GB drives for maybe $200.
Newer Intel SSD drives are expected by the end of the year which may increase capacity to 360 GB and will probably lower the prices a fair amount.
4 GB SODIMM RAMs are around $100 so if you want 6 or 8 GB not so expensive now.
I'd expect to see the newer version of this laptops in Jan or early next year with the Sandy Bridge chipset.
Sandy Bridge will have a much faster graphics which will be "servicable" for games. Not really meant for games but will be much better than current GPU. The GPU will be on the 32 nm process as the CPU is today (today's GPU is on a 45 nm process). You can google for benchmark comparisions.
If you're eyes can deal with the higher screen resolution of the X201s I would go with that unit over the X201. It is also a bit lighter and the batteries will last a bit longer and is still quite fast.
http://www.jr.com/lenovo/pe/LEN_514328U/
other places may have the discount as well.
The units, like netbooks, do not come with built-in optical drives but you can purchase a portable USB optical drive for around $60-100 (see newegg.com).
Intel X25-M 160 GB SSD Drives go for about $300 ish on ebay.com (new). 80 GB drives for maybe $200.
Newer Intel SSD drives are expected by the end of the year which may increase capacity to 360 GB and will probably lower the prices a fair amount.
4 GB SODIMM RAMs are around $100 so if you want 6 or 8 GB not so expensive now.
I'd expect to see the newer version of this laptops in Jan or early next year with the Sandy Bridge chipset.
Sandy Bridge will have a much faster graphics which will be "servicable" for games. Not really meant for games but will be much better than current GPU. The GPU will be on the 32 nm process as the CPU is today (today's GPU is on a 45 nm process). You can google for benchmark comparisions.
If you're eyes can deal with the higher screen resolution of the X201s I would go with that unit over the X201. It is also a bit lighter and the batteries will last a bit longer and is still quite fast.