The good folks over at Laptop Logic have put Lenovo's ThinkPad X60s through its paces. They've found the X60s to be one smooth, powerful notebook that's more than a bit on the expensive side, but is well worth every penny.

The X60s is a dual-core laptop that's relatively small, considering the heat it packs. Units can weigh 2.89lbs, 3lbs or 3.46lbs depending on which battery variant is chosen (one of three), and the machine never gets any thicker than 1.1in - nice and very portable. The test unit came equipped with the Core Duo Low Voltage L2400 CPU (1.55 GHz, 667MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache), 512 MB RAM, an 80GB hard drive, a/b/g Wi-Fi, WWAN and an 8-cell battery - a heavenly mouthful! The machine's snappy performance, superb build quality, excellent keyboard (it's spill-resistant, of course), terrific battery life and unique ThinkLight (a little LED light for the keyboard) all endeared it very much to the editors.

The X60s is far from perfect of course. The reviewers didn't like that the palmrest gets a little hot, that there's no touchpad (just an UltraNav pointing stick), that there's no DVI on Ultrabase, that the lower-end systems only come with 512MB, and that the laptop's expensive - the test unit is $2,299, out of reach of many a road warrior. Still, those observations couldn't make them love the X60s any less. "There's certainly better value to be had elsewhere," the reviewers said, "but you truly get unparalleled, uncompromised mobility, quality and performance." The proof of that? The X60s just won Laptop Logic's Editor's Choice Award.

(Oh, and at the time the review was written, Lenovo decided to sweeten the pot a bit by offering $200 mail-in rebates on two of the lower X60s models. Sweet!)