If you've been dying to get your hands on a ThinkPad netbook -- and we mean a real
Atom-based, 10-inch ThinkPad -- we've got some good news and bad. The good is that Lenovo has indeed been making them, the bad is that you'll have to enroll in a school in New South Wales to get one. Yep, the official word from Lenovo is that the product was a one off deal for the Australian school district. Luckily one unit escaped from the land down under and ended up in our hands yesterday, though we must admit the little laptop is pretty underwhelming since it's just a
X100e with a 1024x600 10-inch screen, rather than the original 11.6-inch one. But if an overflowing bezel is your thing, you'll want to enroll in Summer Heights High ASAP (video after the break for those that are unfamiliar with the amazing, yet expired HBO show). We also confirmed that it has an 1.6GHz Atom N450 processor, which has less power than the AMD Neo being used in the X100e, but we'd venture to guess pumps out at least two more hours of juice with the same six-cell battery. The hands-on pictures below are probably the closest you'll come to seeing one of these, so click on through.
posted April 22nd 2010 7:04PM
Fascinating.
@ROFL
Summer Heights High reference yessss
@ROFL
omg wow, k so.. is it just me or does that main girl look like a guy?
@ROFL
Take out that stupid red thing in the middle of the keyboard, and we have a deal!
@ROFL
Aussies get all the good stuff... =( Like Kangaroos, Koalas, said laptop, and a reason not to buy MacBook. (Not being a troll here, I'm referring to the HUGE Apple Tax in Austrailia.)
@Outsider
Have you ever actually seen a koala?
They aren't soft and they can be f***ing mean.
@Outsider
I'm from Australia, and laptops for students is one of the stupidest thing ever. Many of the students don't use the laptop for serious things, and even for Maths, they have to use this. It is one of the many ridiculous things in Australia. They also are going to use this for essay exam. All those billions of dollars wasted again. Taxpayers are hurt. ALSO you can't even use hotmail or any type of blogs, media etc. including educational sites. Talking about censorship.... jeezs.....
PLUS, this laptop is very shitty looking, i wouldn't even use it if i got it for free, unless you can't afford one.
@abedinthehouse
She is a guy?
@abedinthehouse
it is a guy! he's been doing brilliant comedy in several really funny and successful shows in australia ("summer heights high" and "we can be heroes")
ja'mie is his spoilt rich high school girl impression, which, having gone to a school that had said girls, it's a fairly honest parody at times! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lilley_(comedian)
great reference, crappy laptop, and even crappier government. it's a pity really…
@viper24 Been waiting for this netbook -- hopefully they could do something about the price: http://j.mp/lenovo-thinkpad-mini10-netbook
Wow that is one ugly bezel.
New South Wales is a state, not a school district.
@George101
idiot.
Before anyone asks; yes, that's a dude. He is the 3 major characters in the show (a teacher, a female student and a male student). It's hilarious (or it was).
@Bogus Jimmy
Ja'mie King is NOT a DUDE Dude!
Too much bezel, looks like a Leapfrog toy
@mailbox01
Indeed.. I feel you could land an airplane on that bezzle
ATOM?
Lame.
i see we've reached new height in ugly bezels....ugh
HOLY BEZEL BATMAN!!
Waste of screen real-estate.
No laptop or netbook should have a body thats that much bigger than its screen. Sin against the Spaghetti Monster and his wrathful tentacles.
That actually might explain why the HMM of the X100e lists an Atom motherboard in the parts list...
Live in NSW: check
Student: ... nope
Desire to own this: ...
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uh, no.
a x100e? I think you meant AN x100e...
My first thought when I saw this was... "Baby got bezel!" and then I proceeded to think ">:( Lenovo". With things like the monstrosity and the recent changes in the thinkpad lineup escaping from Lenovo, I may be tempted away to dell. Have you seen the E6510? gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.
Having applied for a job as the laptop tech for a New South Wales highschool and played with the Dell mini 10's they were using, I feel sorry for the kids who end up with the lenovo's lol.
The dell's are much more compact/portable, and that IBM looks like it came straight out of 1997.
So it's a slightly upspecced S10e but uglier.
it's like a chibi darth vader.
Thinkpad you disappoint me with your bezel from the 80's
How much more would the regular 13" screen of cost them I wonder.
bezelpalooza
I think I'd take the AMD model and the less battery life. A big bezel is as unattractive as ridiculously large sunglasses.
@screation
Your home: http://www.spam.com/
the laptops may lok werid but ive got one. i must admit the laptop itself is worth about $400-$500 but it has about $5000 worth of software on it.