Los Angeles (CA) – Have you been wanting to buy a light and thin laptop, but just didn’t have enough cash for the MacBook Air?  Well Lenovo has just announced its Thinkpad X200 that rivals its Apple competitor, for a much cheaper price to boot.  Weighing in at 2.9 pounds with the standard battery, the X200 comes with a 12.1-inch screen, a 64 GB solid-state drive or 320 GB traditional hard drive and an optional Blu-Ray drive.  This ultra portable laptop is 11.6 inches by 8.3 inches at .8 inches thick.

The X200 is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 to 2.4 GHz processor and up to 4 GB of RAM.  Gamers probably shouldn’t go for this laptop since it comes with integrated graphics (evil shared memory).  An optional 9-cell battery will obivously add some weight, but will bump up the maximum operating time to up to 9 hours.

Of course you have to sacrifice some things when you are dealing with computers this small.  The optional optical drive is external, but that’s pretty much par for the course in this arena.  In addition, there’s no trackpad – although that’s not such a big deal for some, I personally hate those dastardly things.

Best thing about the X200 is the price … $1199.