The ThinkPad Edge notebooks are designed specifically for small to medium sized business customers. Lenovo tries to expand its market share by offering select (SMB) ThinkPad Edge models in Best Buy stores. This new lineup that also includes 13 and 14 inch notebooks has a professional design, long life durability and reliability, and are affordable, even for people on a budget.

These laptops are equipped with the so called value-added ThinkVantage Technologies and also include spill-resistant keyboards, some laptops will even have illuminated keyboards in case of sparse light. The 15 inch versions will probably be available in 2Q 2010.

This notebook has a Core i5 M430 processor clocked @ 2.27GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 320GB HDD and a discrete ATI Radeon 4500 video card with 512MB DDR3 memory.

The resolution of the 15.6 inch display with a widescreen form factor of 16:9 is 1366x768, which can be considered a bit 'low', above the screen you'll find a webcam.

This laptop also has a finger sensor, the large sized trackpad also supports Multi touch by using two fingers just like like Macbooks.

Benchmarks: This laptop was compared with the HP dv6, in the PCmark Vantage benchmark the thinkpad had a score of 5931 PCmarks, while the HP dv6 only had 3989 PCmarks, in 3D mark 2006 (4335 vs 6401 3Dmarks) it was the other way around, because the HP dv6 is equipped with a better graphics card.

Video Playback: With 720p and Full HD movies was smooth, without dropping any frames.

Battery life: The Battery lasted for round and about 6.5 hours in the test.

The price: The Core i3 versions will cost app. US $750.-.