Comments on: Swapping the Bay Device on a ThinkPad X300

By: jens

jens — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:56:08 +0000

Hi lenovo.
As all owners of a x300 will know the most annoing thing about it is that its only have 64gb of HD. Any plans of making a caddy for the bay that will accept any kind of disk posibility, either a 1,8hd, compact flash reader or basicly ANYting that will give me a posibility to store more data on it!

thanks!
jens

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:58:20 +0000

There most certainly *is* a need for an ExpressCard slot on the X30x line of notebooks. There should be a way for the user to still utilize external devices for which there were no ports included on these machines. I can understand and even agree with the reasons these ports were omitted. What I can’t fathom is why Lenovo did not recognize the fact that including an ExpressCard slot would all but render those port omissions irrelevant. As it stands, the absence of a few key ports merely adds one more item to the CONS: list in reviews that didn’t have to be.

By: erik

erik — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:42:40 +0000

russ, the keyboard doesn’t need to be removed and no cables will be snagged as a result of leaving the keyboard installed. i’ve swapped the DVD-RAM with the bay battery probably 50 times and the process is extremely straightforward. the video does a great job of explaining the easy way to do it.

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:40:47 +0000

I’d like to swap the optical drive on my new X300 for a 3-cell bay battery, but the instructions I found for “replacing optical drive” on the ThinkVantage Help Center stated that I must first remove the keyboard. You obviously didn’t do that in the video, so I’m wondering if a cable or something could get snagged if I don’t follow the printed instructions and remove the keyboard first?
thanks

By: Daveed

Daveed — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:52:07 +0000

Sorry for the double-post, but after digging some more I’m realizing that I would need to convert the analog signal to digital first.

I found a product called the Gefen VGA to DVI Scaler PLUS which appears to do this. Is anyone on this board familiar with this product? The product literature says the input must be analog PC in the format of either RGBHV, YPbPr or YCbCr… do any of you know if the Lenovo X300 signal fits this requirment?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.

By: Daveed

Daveed — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:45:28 +0000

I just purchased the X300 and I must admit that I am frustrated by the VGA outlet. I appreciate that it is helpful for projecting on the road, but it provides a far inferior image when I connect to my 23″ LCD monitor.

Would it improve the picture if I were to use a VGA to DVI cable to connect the X300 to the DVI port in my LCD monitor instead of a VGA to VGA cable?

By: Norman Ramsey

Norman Ramsey — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:03:46 +0000

Engineering compromises are tough at this form factor. I’m impressed with the DVD burner, but for me SD card might actually have been more useful. The 64GB limit on SSD is also a deterrent.

But for me the real killer is the lack of Linux support. Linux is all I run on my notebook, and without Linux support, it’s hard for me to want to gamble. It’s a real pity since I control my own budget and price is no object…

By: tavis

tavis — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:19:20 +0000

I really love this laptop however i’m waiting for a refresh with a faster processor in it
Any word on when a faster CPU will be offered?

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:39:44 +0000

If I had to choose between the two, I would absolutely want VGA. Considering the trouble I run into just at my own home dealing with different DVI flavors and accessories, VGA is the lower common denominator [not quite lowest, since it's still pretty good!].

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:47:53 +0000

Just wanted to post to say thank you for using a VGA port rather than a DVI port. The teeming masses seem obsessed with DVI, but I travel from conference room to conference room giving presentations, and I have never once encountered a DVI cable sitting on the table; it’s always, without exception, VGA. The fact remains that if you’re giving presentations, there’s only one option – and I refuse to drag a dongle with me just to project.

(Nitpicker’s corner: Yes, many of those conference room projectors have DVI -ports-, but there’s never a cable in the room.)

When we see our first DisplayPort laptops, I would love to see both VGA and DisplayPort included side by side. Nobody is going to switch conference rooms over to DisplayPort until there’s a critical mass of laptops that support it – but during the interim period I sure as heck don’t want to have to carry an adapter with me.