Lenovo ThinkPad X220 unboxed

Thanks to the guys at Lenovo Australia, my boss got a new notebook last week, the new Lenovo ThinkPad X220 with Sandy Bridge, I think this is the first few in the country, I get to play with it for a bit, so I thought I try to post my first unbox.

Lenovo really did a great job on this one, very speedy and powerful, the specs for the one we got are:

• Intel Core i7-2620 Provessor
• 4GB DDR3-1333MHz memory
• 2 X USB 2.0 and 1 X USB3.0
• 160 GB SSD hard disk
• WLAN N
• WWAN (for 3G)
• 12.5" screen
• Intel integrated HD Graphic
• HD web cam

Here's the picture I took while I opened the box:

It came in with a large box...

The box contact the notebook and couple of other items

It came with 1 X USB modem (I don't think anyone still use this but you never know I guess) as well as a PCI Express security card reader

Here's the modem

and the card reader

Left side

Right side, and you can see the blue USB 3.0

from the top

Here's a shot of the Windows 7 performance index, check out the HDD score!!

After I finished the system rebuild (it came with Windows 7 Professional 64bit pre-loaded, but we needed 32 bit for some of our internal used software), I tested the SSD boot, and it's fast, from turning it on to Windows loaded, only took 20 seconds (see the video below)

This unit is really fast (thanks to the SSD and the Core-i7) however, I'm having problem finding the driver for the USB 3.0. I tried the Lenovo support, and they got every driver but the USB 3.0, I guess this is still new to the country so they have not yet put it up there, but given there are not that many USB 3 device out there, my boss should be ok with that (guess I'll find out on Monday :) )

So here it is guys, let me know what you think of my first "unbox" post, and I'll update if you want any further infor...