Lenovo's been enjoying a fair amount of time sitting the limelight as it celebrates the ThinkPad brand's 20th anniversary. Most of the attention has been split between the OEM's ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 and ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook, but nearly slipping under the radar is the company's ThinkPad T430u "ultraportable," which is by all means an Ultrabook aimed at the business crowd.

Lenovo announced today the ThinkPad X130e laptop, an 11.6-inch lightweight ultraportable specially ruggedized for education and infused with features to help students in grades K-12 get the most out of their PC technology, the OEM claims. The main selling point is its durability; the ThinkPad X130e has a reinforced and extra durable top cover, keyboard, and hinges, all of which are fairly unique to the ultraportable category.

We've long dreamed of a day when our PCs would spring to life the instant we press the power button. Solid state storage, gobs of RAM, and intelligent boot order routines have made the startup process a lot faster than it used to be, but we're still not at the point of instantaneous boots. You can, however, boot a Lenovo laptop with "Rapid Boot" technology in 10 seconds, and to prove it, the OEM builder pitched a ThinkPad T420s laptop from an airplane giving it a short window to boot up and deploy a parachute or plummet to its death.