x120e Owner's Thread

[Master Kuni]

There seems to be a lack of any sort of cohesive community built around this new device. It'd be great if we could get some recent owners to post their thoughts/tips/tweaks about their new laptop in here as help and discussion for current and potential owners.

I got my no-OS the day before and have finally gotten a fresh windows install in it, including first party drivers off Lenovo's site. I've found that the Catalyst Control Panel is pretty powerful, but also buggy at this time.

I have also been installing and running some preliminary game tests on the machine. Thus far, I've found Minecraft and Source engine-based games (Half-life 2, Team Fortress 2) to be mildly choppy but very playable at moderate settings, I'll have to get some real benchmarks later.

I have a second 2GB stick of ram in the mail, as the current 2GB is inadequate for multitasking work.

The 250GB hard drive scoots along nicely for magnetic storage. For the time being, I have decided that I like games, movies and music too much to justify a smaller capacity (though undoubtedly speedier) SSD in the immediate future.

So, what are your thoughts?

[graycolor]

Really interested on how Linux runs on it.

[k2001]

Here are my initial impression of the laptop.

I found out when playing with the BIOS menu is that, the laptop to also have uefi like the regular Thinkpad which is a plus.

The screen have a ok viewing angle, but color seem to be a little desaturated, especially with low back-lighting level.

The pixel density are a lot denser than I have imagined, but I got used to it pretty quickly

Another problem has been the shuttering audio that show up randomly when playing mp3 files

Overall I love this laptop, and debating whether to get an extend warranty on it.

[stickboy2k]

So far I like mine.
There are certain issues that some are experiencing with the PC such as stuttering audio/video and general performance complaints but from what I am hearing it is mostly good.

I too am a bit disappointed in the performance, but I am hoping I can tweak things a bit and work through them because I do love the build of the device.

Still playing with it and learning.

[stickboy2k]

Stupid question, but how to get into BIOS?

I haven't read any manuals or anything.

[k2001]

Press enter when the screen show you the Thinkpad logo, and select the first item from the list.

[mr_raider]

Originally Posted by graycolor

Really interested on how Linux runs on it.

I'm running Mint 10 (base Ubuntu 10.10).

Wireless doesn't work so I had to download the rtl8192ce driver from realteks web site and build it.

I'm using catalyst 11.2 which seems to support the 6310 just fine. I downloaded it and built the packages manually.

Webcam works, and gpointing devices enables the trackpoint scroll.

[ToniCipriani]

I just want mine shipped...

First was promised the machine shipped on 14th, bumped up to 10th, nothing. Called them up and gave me 3 possible shipping dates: 21st, 26th, April 12th (??!!)

[tehdragonfly]

Originally Posted by Master Kuni

It'd be great if we could get some recent owners to post their thoughts/tips/tweaks about their new laptop in here as help and discussion for current and potential owners.

For those who are looking for the x120e drivers,

Lenovo Support - Drivers and software - ThinkPad Edge 11, Edge E10, X120e

[Pochi]

Originally Posted by ToniCipriani

I just want mine shipped...

First was promised the machine shipped on 14th, bumped up to 10th, nothing. Called them up and gave me 3 possible shipping dates: 21st, 26th, April 12th (??!!)