Lenovo's ThinkPad X301 now with $9,969 multi-touch trackpad option

About a year ago Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 launched as a direct competitor to Apple's slinky MacBook Air. Over that time, the ultra-slim Thinkpad with a face for business has come to either match or dominate the MBA in nearly every category except the sexy. Now you can tick off one more as the X301 brings a new multi-touch trackpad option with fingerprint reader. In the typical befuddlement that seems to greet every new on-line spec on the Lenovo store, the new TouchPad is listed as a $9,969 option. Too rich? They maybe the $8,402 bump from a 1.4GHz to new 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo SU9600 processor will interest you?

[Thanks, James C.]

[xlaxplaya Posted Apr 22nd 2009 3:53AM]

What sane person would buy this?

[xValentine Posted Apr 22nd 2009 8:50AM]

People who bought the MacBook Wheel.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:02AM]

Not bad, considering the T400 has the following downgrade:


System graphics Help me decide
ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 with 256MB
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD - Non-AMT [add $9,433.00]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:19AM]

Seriously, who would actually pay that?

[imGoingNameless Posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:29AM]

awww where's the hhdddbvddvd drive?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:46AM]

this comment thread is suffering from "macbook wheel syndrome"

[Flix C Posted Apr 22nd 2009 5:39AM]

I saw what you did there engadget...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 7:23AM]

$8,402.00 for a tiny processor upgrade?! That must be a typo. That is just absurd and overpriced. And, $9,969.00 for a multitouch trackpad?! No way. Even Macs are way cheaper than this. I'd suggest another brand. Those prices have to be typos. Gosh. Too expensive for anybody. Even if you're rich enough to get this, you wouldn't because it's just downright stupid to add that much to the price and that would be just wasting your money on something like that.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 9:58AM]

hi

[sockatume Posted Apr 22nd 2009 8:24AM]

Those options are both gone now. I assume they were thrown in there temporariliy as a test, with made-up prices.

[jd101506 Posted Apr 22nd 2009 9:30AM]

The options are gone. IBM isn't really this dumb.

[Piranha Posted Apr 22nd 2009 11:38AM]

Lenovo != IBM now..

IBM sold off their personal computer line years ago now.

[RUGRLN Posted Apr 22nd 2009 11:07AM]

Hahahahahaha.......lmao....lol.....rofl!!!
I like the Help Me Decide option here lol.....

[mighty Posted Apr 22nd 2009 11:23AM]

those two are removed now !

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 11:49AM]

And people complained the Adamo was expensive. I hope the Lenovo comes gold plated and with a whole harem of chicks for that price.

[TentosToys Posted Apr 22nd 2009 11:56AM]

Lenovo should run a piece on Engadget's typos - there is one in this post, and many others to choose from.

[moochy Posted Apr 22nd 2009 1:16PM]

Lenovo is cheap ass shit. My girlfriend's brother was trying to sell a 17 inch Lenvo laptop and I was shocked at the fit and finish. Pure junk! The thinkpad logo is no longer deeply etched as before and the whole machine feels like a fucking cheap ass dollar store toy.
Well, that is why you can get that bullshit for next to nothing.
Fuck Lenovo.
But I just love my new unibody Macbook. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:12PM]

hahaha, I have 30grand for the most ok laptop ever!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:20PM]

It seems that someone stumbled upon an error. Which has been removed. Someone must have been thinking in Yen or a similar currency.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 10:31PM]

this option isnt on the site anymore i just checked, it must have been a typo or something

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 11:44AM]

this is some bullshit dude
wtf it pisses me off so much...

why? because there are idiots that actually would buy this shit.
$8000 for .2ghz bump? what is this?