Lenovo ThinkPad X120e: Suitable For Bussiness

Lenovo ThinkPad calls his X120e an ultraportable - and its new AMD Fusion CPU undoubtedly provides the laptop with a much better performance than the netbooks have achieved in the past. But it is nowhere near as fast as the average ultraportable Intel Core-based. Lenovo has done a great job giving the keyboard a sense of great size, but the 1366 by 768, 11.6-inch screen suffers in comparison with the 12 - and 13-inch displays other ultraportable laptops. Given the choice between characterizing the X120e as an ultra low power or as a wonderful netbook, I'm going with the latter.

Lenovo is the king of keyboard, and the X120e has the best netbook keyboard ever - nothing else comes close. The feeling is superb, with none of the common finger squeeze the race. The touchpad is comfortable and perfect answer, and old school fans of Lenovo will be pleased to know that the company includes a TrackPoint cursor control Eraserhead.




The ThinkPad X120e comes in several configurations starting at $ 399 for a Fusion CPU E-250, 2 GB of memory and a 250 GB, 5,400 rpm hard drive. Our test system X120e is equipped with the E-350 a little faster CPU, 4GB of memory and a 300 GB, 7,200 rpm hard drive. Burlie components X120e led to a WorldBench 6 score of 57 - a mark well above the traditional netbooks tend to receive, but lower than a typical ultraportable get expensive. The strongest configuration of our review unit's price rose to $ 650 - very strong for a netbook.


Video performance with the Fusion CPU / GPU ranges from excellent to mediocre. With the codecs supported by the graphics hardware (Radeon HD 6310), provides smooth playback of 1080p video. With codecs handled by the CPU alone, however, is limited to 720, and still playing is not always as easy as you might like. the game frame rates came to play, falling just shy of 30 frames per second in Unreal Tournament at 800 by 600 at medium resolution. That is a tantalizing near miss, but it's still a foul. simple games will do better.


The X120e has the standard netbook and three USB 2.0 ports, but business users will appreciate that Lenovo includes VGA and HDMI video outputs. The gigabit Ethernet supports data rates, you get Bluetooth on board, and you can choose between b / g / w and / b / g / n wireless.


The unit is a bit larger than the average netbook 11.1 inches wide by 7.45 inches deep (add about 0. 75 inches of the six-cell battery), and 1.16 inches thick. It is also slightly heavier at 2.93 pounds and 3.31 pounds (when equipped with a three-cell or battery of six cells, respectively). Our test configuration of the six-cell battery power to the unit of about 5.5 hours - impressively long, taking into account the performance.


The system we tested came loaded with Windows 7 Professional, but you can choose Home Premium 32-bit or 64 bit, if you prefer. Office 2010 for beginners is on board, and Norton Internet Security is available for user installation.


Lenovo marketing preferences aside, the X120e is not an ultraportable: Your screen is too small and its performance is very slow. We're not even sure why the company wants to match against ultra-right. However, the X120e is the best netbook goes. Although a bit expensive, a writing session will convince you that the $ 450 from this model is more than worth it.

Source: PC World

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