Lenovo ThinkPad X270 vs X280

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Here we are comparing Lenovo ThinkPad X270 and Lenovo ThinkPad X280. Below you can check Key Features, Tech Specifications and detail review and comparisions.

Lenovo ThinkPad X270	Lenovo ThinkPad X280
Starting at:$498.89	Starting at:$919.00
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Key Features

Technical Specification

DESIGN

Lenovo ThinkPad X270:

Lenovo ThinkPad x270 is the smallest among the ThinkPad X-series products and T-series products. X270 is more like a very dark grey color, not as black so that’s a little different with this model.

It is a very solid laptop mainly designed for business users and enterprise users or small business users. It is very light in weight so you can easily carry it anywhere.

Lenovo ThinkPad X280:

This is a super thin and ultra-light weight laptop. The entire body is made out of ABS/PC plastic, making it super easy to carry anywhere and easy to use. It is a matt finish multi-touch laptop. The built quality of this laptop is very nice. The power button is located right side on the top of the keyboard.

DISPLAY

Lenovo ThinkPad X270:

This is the 12.5 inches HD display. There is not a Full HD but this HD panel is 1366 X 768 with 305 nits of brightness. It is a TN panel. It’s a little bit hard to look at the screen. The color game is a little bit lacking. The Adobe RGB is 52% we usually see like 75 in a consumer laptop in this price range and sRGB is 68%. It’s a very nice-looking display.

Lenovo ThinkPad X280:

It is a 12.5-inch Full HD with 1920 X 1080 resolution display. it is IPS anti-glare multi-touch display.

On the top of the display, there is a 720 HD webcam available with the shutter for privacy so you can turn off the camera while you are not using it. You can also able to configure X280 to get an IR camera but you are not going to get shutter with that camera. There is dual mics available on both side of the camera which works extremely well when you’re doing video calls, no issues with that.

WEIGHT & DIMENSIONS

Lenovo ThinkPad X270:

It is 1.3 Kg laptop with 12.03×8.21×0.8 (inches) dimensions.

Lenovo ThinkPad X280:

The weight of this laptop is 1.3Kg. It is the thinnest and lightest laptop of the X series. Dimensions are 12.1x 8.3x 0.70(inches).

PERFORMANCE

Lenovo ThinkPad X270:

There is a dual-core 15-watt ultrabook CPU inside. So it’s not going to get that much hot, plenty of ventilation available onboard. It’s available with Core i5 and core i7 CPU so you can get vPro CPU if you want. There is Intel 620 HD graphics available on this laptop. It is also available with a choice of 4,8 and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. And The base model would get you the core i5 7200U 4GB RAM and 128 GB SATA interface M.2 SSD.

This is a business laptop it’s not built for video gaming. So it’s quite hard to play the latest games on this laptop. You can watch HD and 4K videos on it.

Lenovo ThinkPad X280:

There is an 8th Generation Intel Core i5-8250U quad-core processor with vPro. It has an 8GB of RAM. It is DDR4 non-upgradable RAM. You can upgrade the storage but not upgrade RAM. This one can configure 512GB of solid-state storage.

This machine is running an Intel Ultra HD 620 graphics card. Which is allows you to connect 4K monitor with smooth performance. It gets a little bit warm while you are using it for too long. It has ventilation on the right side but I guess it’s not enough to cool down the whole laptop.

This is a business laptop so according to that everything is working smoothly and very quick and responsive on this. This is not a gaming laptop so you won’t be able to play high games. But there have been some improvements in the graphics that are built in this Intel processor so you can play some games. So overall performance is very good at these features and price.

PORT SELECTION

Lenovo ThinkPad X270:

on the left-hand side, there is a power jack, Type-C you can also charge via this port, HDMI port another USB Type-A port and a smart card reader.

There is a standard earphone jack along with USB Type-A port and this also supports charging even when the laptop is off. So you can charge your phone or tablet through this port. There is a micro sim card slot if you have an LTE model built-in or you can upgrade later on. There is an ethernet port and the Kensington lock port.

Lenovo ThinkPad X280:

On the right side there is a ventilation, a 3.1 USB port, and a Kensington lock.

On the left side you have combo audio jack which allows you to connect your mic and headphones, one HDMI port, an additional 3.1 USB always-on port, two Type-C ports, one allows you to connect ThinkPad connection dock, and the other one allows you to connect your power adopter.

There is a micro SD card slot on the backside.

KEYBOARD & TOUCHPAD

Lenovo ThinkPad X270:

You have Lenovo’s visual wonderful ThinkPad keyboard nice travel nice tactile feel here it’s just a pleasure to type on this. You’re going to love this keyboard. There is also a joystick available on the keyboard as an alternative use.

You also have the usual touchpad with 3 buttons on the top of the touchpad. you can also customize the sensitivity and changes it to light touch heavy touch. It’s a very good track that attracts reliably to finger gestures work.

There is also a fingerprint scanner available on the right side of the touchpad.

Lenovo ThinkPad X280:

The keyboard on the X280 is amazing you will love the way it feels when you typing there no issues with that. Keyes are nicely separated to each key, so you can type extremely fast and not make a lot of mistakes. There is also a backlight on the keyboard so you can do your work in the dark. There is a joystick available on the keyboard. Which you can use as an alternative.

It comes with a fingerprint scanner that allows you to login using your fingerprint it’s an additional security to login to your machine.

There is a touchpad available below the keyboard with three buttons on the top of the touchpad. It is working very smoothly without an any issue.

SPEAKERS

Lenovo ThinkPad X270:

There are two speakers available on the bottom of the laptop. This is a business laptop so it doesn’t have a good quality of sound. But still, it produces good sound for your video conference and watching videos.

Lenovo ThinkPad X280:

There are two speakers are located on the bottom. This is the Dolby Advanced Audio and speakers. It has a pretty good quality of sound.

BATTERY

Lenovo ThinkPad X270:

There’s an internal 23-watt hour 6 cell battery inside and. This battery can give you approximately over 14 hours of run time.

There is also an external battery slot on the back where you can connect an external battery. And upgrade it into a 47 or 72-watt hour battery. There is a removable section on the back so you can choose which battery you want to have in the back. There’s two releases and then you pull out the battery. You can swap the external battery without turn off your laptop.

Lenovo ThinkPad X280:

There is a Type-C 65-Watt power adopter available. It is a 48-Watt hour 6 cell battery. It almost took 1.5 hours to fully charge. Which can gives you approximately 8 to 10 hours of battery life.

WHICH TO BUY?

So at the end after comparing these both laptops I found Lenovo ThinkPad X280 very useful. At this price, you will get many features and options compare to X270. This is not very heavy and big so you can carry this anywhere, and do your work easily. This is also better in performance. So according to me, you can invest your money here, it will worth it.

Jignesh

I'm Jignesh Prajapati, a passionate tech enthusiast from Ahmedabad, India. In 2016, I took a bold leap, leaving my job to embark on a blogging journey. Despite exploring various niches, my heart found its true calling in technology. Today, I am the proud Founder and CEO of my tech blog - The World's Best and Worst