Best Notebooks 2011

Lenovo's thinnest and lightest ThinkPad laptop yet is a dramatic mix. Its build quality is even more impressive than usual, its backlit and spill-resistant keyboard is by far the best to be found on any ultraportable; it offers great connectivity, good specs and plenty of features. However, the X1 its average screen and poor battery life trail other 13in rivals by quite some margin. If you can live with these issues it's a great machine, but many will be better off looking elsewhere.