http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/ Engadget Comments for Lenovo ThinkPad X100e hands-on impressions http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
No kidding. I was thinking that a matte finish wouldn't show fingerprints. Now I know that in fact, it does, and it's actually hard to wipe off! ]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/it's hard to wipe the oily residue left by greasy fingers on some plastics]]>Jan 4th 2010 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
I LOVE the thinkpad styling, i want it............now...........]]>Jan 4th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
You can hold on to your first born! It looks like this can be bought for less than a week's wages. ]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/More details: http://bit.ly/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-specs]]>Jan 7th 2010 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
does it get warm on any surface, as warm so it becomes uncomfortable to have it on the lap.

Or are the temperatures at a normal level (like most other thinkpads?)]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
hah, like most other thinkpads? my T41 singes my leg, and the previous generation X-series was even worse. TP's haven't been the coolest laptops temperature-wise...

that said, looks like this turned out really well, but i'd be hard pressed not to get an Edge 13 for another $50?]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
lol, i can only speak from my T400 with dedicated Graphics..
It remains cool even when gaming, compared to my ex- Macbook Pro, on which i could fry an egg on.


with bacon.
and hash browns.

i guess i don't know too much about the other models, but i know mine stays pretty cool compared to other laptops..]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
My T400 runs very cool. Even when rendering video, all I feel is a faint, warm breeze out the side. Right now, all I feel is a slightly warm spot where the fan is, but everything else is room temperature.

Does anyone know if I can overclock a T9600 Core2Duo on a Thinkpad?]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/I can second this, I have an R500, Centrino 2, 2.4 GHZ C2D with the ATI Radeon 3400, I can only remember the cooling fan coming on once and that was when watching HD video on a hot summer day (room temp was hovering around 30C). I've never had a cooler laptop, not since the days of my trusty 486DX4 Toshiba Sattelite.]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/X200 stays super cool. Love it! (hated my T60p and X61T that were palm-cookers)]]>Jan 4th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
Same experience here with recent Thinkpads. My x200, despite being an ultraportable with a Core2Duo, remains quiet and cool even when watching HD youtube. I haven't gamed on it, but for daily tasks it is an exceptionally cool-running machine. My T42 was pretty quiet as well, but runs a bit warmer. The 600x runs loud and hot, but then again it's a decade old and running a modern operating system.]]>Jan 4th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
Not on AMD, it won't. At most you can hope to get 6 hours.]]>Jan 4th 2010 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Amds new m series CPUs are pretty amazing power to pro (tdp of 25-35 watts) ratio. Plus, unlike intel the integrated graphics are not crap. So right now until intel figures out how to make a decent vc, this is the best lennovo is gonna do right now, and I personally think it was a great move.]]>Jan 4th 2010 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
I have no problem at all switching between a regular desktop keyboard with traditional style CTRL and my T60's keyboard BUT give me any other laptop keyboard and my fingers never find the CTRL key.

Where the CTRL & FN keys are on a keyboard are not that critical, it's the feel of the keys and the size, spacing and shape of the whole layout that matters. ]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
New thinkpads have a BIOS option to swap the Ctrl & Fn keys: http://lenovoblogs.com/yamato/?p=518&language=en]]>Jan 4th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
Whoa.... is that for real? AWESOME. I'm all over an x100e if Lenovo has it implemented in that BIOS.]]>Jan 4th 2010 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
And the problem with neo is its battery life, they had to ship with 9cell just to extend its 3 hours battery life on 6cell.]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/That reeks of BS. The only MSI netbook that I know of that has the dual core AMD is the MSI Wind U230. Hexus.net did a review on an early sample and it stayed cool to the touch. Plus the battery life was 47 minutes better than the Asus 1201n that Engadget did a review on. FUD.
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21331]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
the temp i gave is core temp (reading by RightMark CPU clock utility), not surface temp. it feels cool on the keyboard and HD area.

http://netbooked.net/blog/msi-wind-u230-reviewed-better-gaming-petformance-poorer-battery-life-culv/
According to this review u230 "Low battery life - just over 3 hours (3:13)", so they shipped version u230x, which just means 9cell battery instead of 6cell.]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Yeah the 3:13 is what the Hexus review list. However, if you want to get any sort of Intel equivalent you're looking at the Asus 1201n, which got 2 hours 26 minutes. You can get a better processor in the CULV from intel, but not by much. The tradeoff is you get Intel integrated graphics which are terrible. If you go with the nano dual core with nvidia graphics the cpu gets kicked to the curb by the Neo processor. The graphics are better but the cpu sucks so bad they hold back the graphics and the battery life is terrible.

So if you want CULV performance with decent graphics at this point the AMD platform is the way to go.]]>Jan 4th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Amds new m series CPUs are pretty amazing power to pro (tdp of 25-35 watts) ratio. Plus, unlike intel the integrated graphics are not crap. So right now until intel figures out how to make a decent vc, this is the best lennovo is gonna do right now, and I personally think it was a great move.]]>Jan 4th 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
you guys couldnt get a better shot really? i mean i know its black but... these photos look like they were taken from some crappy cell phone.]]>Jan 4th 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 4th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/
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Really thinking about it, but I want HD video and HDMI and I dont think this thing is up to the task. It seems like an excellent college netbook replacement though.]]>Jan 5th 2010 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/lenovo-thinkpad-x100e-hands-on-impressions/Jan 15th 2010 3:54AM