Like pretty much any other Thinkpad, the X40 ultra-portable won’t win any prizes for its looks, especially since IBM continues to festoon its otherwise sleek black slabs of mobile computing goodness with jolly red, green, and blue stickers here and there, but man alive, they make a nice laptop. Riyad Emeran thinks so, too, after trying about the X40 for a couple of weeks — he’s calling the 1.2GHz Pentium M powered laptop the best ultra-portable around. And that’s after he reviewed the Sony VAIO VGN-X505VP. Big words, too, considering the many relative shortcomings of the X40, like a slowish 4,200 RPM hard drive, 1,024 by 768 screen, and only 802.11b WiFi stock standard. The VAIO may be sexy, but the Thinkpad is more usable; that wins the day when it comes to laptops every time.
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