ThinkPad UltraBay ThinkPad UltraBay UltraBay is originally IBM's name for the swappable drive bay in the ThinkPad range of laptop computers. When the Thinkpad product line was sold to Lenovo, the concept and the name stayed. Furthermore, it is used in some of Lenovo's own IdeaPad Y Series laptops. Introduced with the ThinkPad 750 series in 1995, this technology has gone through redesigns with almost every new generation of ThinkPad, which may lead to confusion. The following table gives an overview of the different UltraBay types, in which models they occurred and which drives are available for them. Note that the optical
ThinkPad X series to be available in the UK on June 7, 2011. The specifications of the ThinkPad X1 laptop are given below: The ThinkPad X-series laptops released in 2012 by Lenovo were the X1 Carbon, X131e, X230 and X230t (tablet). In the T, W, and L series the models Thinkpad T430, T430s, T530, W530, L430 and L530 were also released. In early August 2012, Lenovo released the ThinkPad X1 Carbon announced on .<ref name="release X1 Carbon,X230,X230t,T430,T430s,T530,W530,L430,L530,Series 3/USB 3.0 Dock"></ref> The X1 Carbon weighs 1.35 kg, has a battery life of roughly eight hours, and has a start-up time of less than 20