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The article suggests that the touchpad works well. However, the x230 holds the the crappiest touchpad I have ever seen. Slow to respond and its resolution is far worse than on my Lenovo s10-2 netbook. I bought this laptop, and took only one week for the trackpoint to come loose (been replaced). The Intel 520 series SSD seems to have firmware issues that causes ATA timeout and stalled system as a result. The replaced SSD (same firwmare version) still has this issue.  Now I use it with a Samsung 840 series SSD, rock stable.

I do not recommend this laptop to anyone, the good days of IBM ThinkPads are gone now.

I would be be pleased with an review of the x230t, too.

...the manufacturer has managed to shave off a third of an inch from the 34.6mm (1.36 inches) rear end of the previous model to just 26.6mm (1.05 inches)...
This information is from Lenovo Tabook or it is real measurement. When I looking at the pictures X220 and X230 they looks like there are no difference in thickness.

Hello,

They are official measurements from Lenovo. You can find the necessary data for comparison in the following PDFs:

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x230/x230-datasheet.pdf
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/ww/pdf/x220_datasheet.pdf

Please review x230t too. Thanks

I realized that I have just used my old T61p to play the whole of Mass Effect 2. The Trackpoint is by far the best feature of the ThinkPad series.
 
The x230 looks very impressive, but I still can't wait for fanless laptops.

@Axel
Unfortunately, attempting to install Intel RST was unsuccessful on the reviewed X230. The installation returns a "does not meet minimum requirements" error message despite the QM77 chipset being advertised as compatible with the Intel software.

Lenovo will offer 500GB HDD as well as 256GB SSD and 32GB mSATA configurations when this notebook launches later this month. A higher capacity aftermarket HDD/SSD should install without problems. If going the SSD route and speed is a concern, the 6gb/s interface of the X230 would benefit from a SATA III drive.

@Moogle:

Our load temperature test is less representative of real-world conditions and is more of a hardware stress test. Users will likely never reach such high load temperatures under typical day-to-day usage.
Fan activity is low (~3100RPM) with a very slight hum even under 1080p Youtube playback. However, the utility TPFanControl allows you to force the fan to spin at specific levels (up to ~5700RPM) if you so desire.

@Yi Wang and Alex Li:
Diablo III is absolutely playable at low settings (~50FPS) but may approach <20FPS under medium settings and large battles. Specific benchmark numbers for the X230 are unavailable at the time of writing.

Please test with Diable III. Thanks very much!!!