14 DAY TRIAL // Though its actual unveiling took place some time ago, it looks like a certain member of the ThinkPad Edge E series had finally made it to market, having been listed on its maker's website with a price of $700-$800.
It appears that Toshiba is not the only maker of laptops that took a while before it would actually start shipping a certain notebook, or two in its case.
Apparently, Lenovo also decided it was high time its ThinkPad Edge E420s configurations started serving the market, while preparing a different E-series product for April.
The laptop that won't be out until next month is the E220s, meaning that the E420s is the main start of this particular piece of news.
Detailed in full here, it is based on the Intel Core i3-2310M central processing unit, whose core clock is of 2.1 GHz and which features 3MB L3 cache and 1333MHz DDR3 support.
This chip, or its accompanying chipset, is the reason sales didn't start sooner, since the notebook was affected by the infamous Intel 6-Seires chipset design flaw.
Those that want more performance can select a better chip, the dual-core Intel Core i5-2410M, which runs at 2.3 GHz and can go to 2.9 GHz via Turbo Boost.
The chip is complemented by 4 GB of RAM (random access memory). Like many other machines, it has a larger memory amount than used to be usual, since modules are very cheap right now.
Lenovo, of course, put in a hard disk drive, since no system can work without a storage component. In this case, the capacity is of 250 GB.
All the above, along with WiFi, Ethernet and an optical drive, plus USB and other connectivity options, are packed inside a 14-inch frame.
As for the display, it has a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels (HD) and belongs to the Infinity Glass variety, with edge-to-edge glass.
For those interested, the other Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, E220s will debut on April 8, according to a document uncovered by Engadget.