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SL Series awards
 
 
award Great Laptops for the Savvy Business Traveler
ThinkPad SL400
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Most Impressive Laptops
ThinkPad SL400
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Top 10 All-Purpose Laptops
ThinkPad SL400 (#1)
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Top 10 All-Purpose Laptops
ThinkPad SL400 (#1)
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CNET Rating: 7.5 Very Good
ThinkPad SL400
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award 4 out of 5 – Recommended
ThinkPad SL400
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award Rating: 8.0 - Very Good
ThinkPad SL300
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Rating: 7.8 - Very Good
ThinkPad SL500
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The Best Budget Notebooks
ThinkPad SL500
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Rating: 8.2 out of 10
ThinkPad SL400
Leaving Computer Shopper, August 2008
award 4 out of 5 stars
ThinkPad SL400
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Press quotes
"Enter the Lenovo ThinkPad SL300, SL400 and SL500, which are designed - and priced - specifically with you in mind. These models contain most of the features that have made ThinkPad a standard (most notably the excellent keyboard and security features) but leave out the enterprise-oriented features that drive up the price. The result: notebooks that let small business owners and sole proprietors switch to a ThinkPad, without the cost penalty."
Leaving Smart Business Computing, November 2008
"Overall, the SL400 is a sound business laptop...Its combination of performance and value places it near the top of our charts."
Leaving PC World, November 2008
"Lenovo pushed all the right buttons when it crafted the ThinkPad SL400 business laptop. It's portable enough to suit most road warriors, but fast enough to keep their apps running smoothly."
Leaving Computer Shopper, August 2008
"Compared to similar offerings from Dell, HP, and other companies the SL series is still looking pretty good because Lenovo was able to leverage the existing ThinkPads in order to put out a very solid product."
Leaving Geek.com, August 2008
"The laptop, a Vista Business-based Lenovo ThinkPad SL500, is astonishingly powerful...It posts a Windows Experience Index score higher than that of my desktop machine back home, and the typically excellent ThinkPad keyboard and 15-inch widescreen display makes this machine even more comfortable to use than that desktop."
Leaving Windows IT Pro, August 2008
"The Bottom Line: The Test Center can recommend both the ThinkPad X200 and the ThinkPad SL 400...The SL 400 can simply give VARs a strong weapon to win sales in small-business accounts."
Leaving CRN ChannelWeb, July 2008
"Designed from the outset as an SMB offering, the ThinkPad SL series aims to combine value with performance while still offering the features that matter the most to small and medium businesses."
Leaving eWeek Channel Insider, July 2008