Lenovo ThinkPad X61s Unveiled

Lenovo ThinkPad X61sLenovo has unveiled the details of its thin and light ultra-portable ThinkPad X61s notebook, based on Intel “Santa Rosa” mobile platform and Intel’s low-voltage Core 2 Duo processor.

Lenovo ThinkPad X61s (slim), which comes with Core 2 Duo L7300 or L7500, is thinner and lighter version of the ThinkPad X61, powered by “full-voltage” T7100, T7300, and T7500. Both notebooks are built upon “Santa Rosa’s” Mobile Intel GM965 Express chipset. The integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 manages notebook’s 12-inch XGA (non-widescreen) display with 1024-by-768 resolution. The X61s supports up to 4GB of DDR2 main memory and comes with up to 160GB SATA hard drive, while for enhanced hard drive performance, the X61s incorporates Intel Turbo memory 1 GB card. For an additional $100 you can purchase the ThinkPad X6 UltraBase docking station with an optical drive.

The ThinkPad X61s provides a wide range of networking features, including the integrated Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN for 802.11n draft connectivity, Wireless Broadband Access, and integrated Bluetooth on select models. All of X61s laptops have Gigabit Ethernet LAN and 56k modems.

The system’s ports and slots include three USB 2.0 ports, VGA output for external display, Firewire, PC Card slot, and Secure Digital card slot. There is also a fingerprint reader in select models.

Lenovo ThinkPad X61s’ weight starts at 2.73lbs with four-cell slim-line battery. It comes with Windows Vista 32-bit/64-bit or Windows XP Professional.

The “Santa Rosa” based X61s is expected to become available in June 2007. According to Lenovo’s website, the configuration with Intel Core 2 Duo processor L7500, 2GB of memory, a 100GB 7200rpm hard drive, Verizon Wireless Broadband Access, and Windows Vista Ultimate, will cost $2,299.

Note: The X61s has no built in optical drive, as reported previously. It’s available via X6 UltraBase docking station.

Lenovo ThinkPad X61s

4 thoughts on “Lenovo ThinkPad X61s Unveiled”

  1. Which models have integrated Bluetooth, and how can I tell if my x61s has it. I suspect it does not, so is there a way of getting integrated Bluetooth after the fact without having to use a doppler?
    Thanks.

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  2. What are the Video Graphics specifications for the integrated graphics accelerator X3100? How much shared RAM or VRAM is available?

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  3. Actually, the optical drive is NOT available. You can get the “ultrabay”, which is like a portable docking station, and stick an optical drive in there. But lugging that extra thing around kinda defeats the whole point of ultraportable though.

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