One 2011 Netbook to Rule All Before it: The Thinkpad X120e 

This is our first video where all the B-roll was shot in 4k. Enjoy! Also, at 1:03 I meant to say "successor" not "predecessor"!

Anyone notice the orange bugs crawling around the laptop? :)

The X120e was my first ThinkPad, it was great for light weight use and even older games ran on it well. Of course mine was the dual core which made it nicer for modern use.

YES!!!! Finally more videos of this genre!!! LOVE IT!!! I wish you made videos daily.

Shoutout to Elementary OS

I actually used a Toshiba NB100 with 2gb of ram and a 80gb hd right through university :P it was perfect for me at the time. I did everything on it even programming for computer science. Honestly it would probably still pass fine even now for those things. Just 2 years ago Pycharm was still useable on it.

Damn, wish it had a socketed CPU as the rest of it is more than adequate.

I had the dual core version in high school. I loved that laptop! After 4 years of using it every day, and knocking it off my bed after falling asleep while using it... for school work.... it finally died one day. What I wouldn't give to have an old school thinkpad form factor with new hardware. They just don't make them like they used to.

Thinkpad does everything, except brews coffee

welcome back braxton :) great video

What driver did you use for The graphics? I couldnt find the right one for my e-450 apu.

I can recommend the X220 as a daily driver. Seriously the screen aside I like it so much better than anything you can buy new.

I have the same one that I use on the job and I mostly use it for searching appliance parts and placing orders, it no longer supports Netflix plus more issues, how can I the update it with latest drivers? is there a download? Thanks

Since you cited the raspberry pi, can you please make a performance comparison between the raspberry pi 3b+ (max stable overclock) and this machine?

Single core sounds painful

hey man..love your work ...can u do a video on libreboot or coreboot on thinkpads...it will be cool

I am kinda curious on what ifanything couldbe put in the mini pci-e slots to help with things. Thinking a bluetooth/wifi card in one slot, and a hardware video decoder in the other? Any ideas?

Have you tried MX Linux 18 yet? The left side panel takes some getting used to, but had it running on a ryzen 3 desktop build for a bit. Super snappy, and not short on software!

I scored an X120e with the dualcore for $21.99 in nice condition, time to revisit the netbook days!

I upgraded mine to 8GB of RAM and Windows 10 Pro and I am able to run Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign simultaneously with no problems at all

Nice review, but I'd serious get an X140e AMD version instead, and they can run an OS like Manjaro fairly well once you bump the ram to 8GB, and add an SSD.

Yes, those elite versions of netbook still having impressive form factor and connectivity. I had a HP mini311 with Atom N280 and just can't use that slow CPU anymore, almost all OS I tried brings the CPU to 100% usage in any light operation and get very hot with that ION chipset. So I get a HP DM1-1000 motherboard (Intel SU2300) which is 100% compatible with 3GB of DDR3 and 120G SSD. Now it runs windows 10 pro and works as my old game(2005-2010 and dosbox) platform, it just so much fun to boot it and spend some good time with it.

The x131e is a superb little box. It has an i3, good ports and bombproof construction. The S10-3 is tiny, svelte and gutless. But it has a good keyboard and battery life.

wow memories of my HP 2133 with a single core VIA processor @1.2Ghz and my Asus eee book with a gen 1 intel atom and 8gb ssd, good times lol

I like netbooks, and that one is almost perfect.. but somehow on a Thinkpad the sticking point is the keyboard... I absolutely detest the position of the FN key on that, should've been swapped with CTRL as that really needs to sit in the bottom corner... I've personally gone through three netbooks, the first being more of a safety net when my desktop died a few years back, despite the laptop having a busted hinge, no battery life and no hard-drive at first. Thankfully managed to get hold of a slightly newer one for free that just needed an HDD replacement, and once the charging port on that died I ended up getting another Acer, basically one of the ripple lidded ones in the beginning of this vid but in blue, and thankfully that's a dual core Atom. Lovely little thing runnin' Mint XFCE even if it's a bit slow

Can we install msata(ssd) on the empty wwan slot? Can amd E240(my thinkpad x120e version) use chrome os?

Those are cool computers! I wanted to buy a laptop soon but can’t find a good cheap one

Which 8 GB stick did you use?

I have a hp mini with a atom n270 and a dell mini 1018, the dell used to be my main machine it was horribly slow but I loved it

nice review man. hoping it can handle just playing some movies to my tv. I hate the dongles, Im switching over from dell and mbp's over to just one mbp and the rest thinkpads.

I loved my Lenovo s10-3 back then. It did everything I wanted it to do and would probably still serve me well, if I still it. Too bad I didn't know about that ThinkPad back then, it would have been even better, I suppose.

Good thing you made a review, I almost bought one at 100 dollars, could you do a review of the x131e please?

Am I getting a hint of Regular Car Reviews attitude in this video?

2 video Ports isn’t rare, my HP Mini 210 also has VGA and HDMI And it has a 4 thread Intel CPU

Similar to my x131e. Cool little computer.

the S10e are not bad PC's we have a few of them and we turned them into chromebooks for kids with autism and other disabilties they are a great little laptop to start a kid off with

My laptop is old, it was made in 2008. HP Pavilion Model DV 2700 original software Windows Vista. Nowadays the configuration: - Processor Core 2 Duo 1,83 GHz - 4GB DDR2 667 MHz of RAM - SSD 240 GB SanDisk - New battery - Windows 10 Pro. Sometimes I have problems with drives. Because the drives aren't available in HP website. Remember that all OEM removed the drives from Old Computers kkk. However I use this laptop for watching videos and simple works in office. I like because the cost was cheap.

What about chrome OS? How does it hold up on this hardware?

Elementary OS good choice

If you want a machine in this size range, do yourself a favor and get an X131e with a i3 or go up an inch and get a X201 with an i5 and enjoy something that is still truly useable today.

Would CloudReady's ChromeOS run better?

It can use 10GB of RAM?

i just bought one of these for 40, i mostly plan on just using it for long typing while in bed and hooking up with the hdmi

This reminds me of the laptop my dad uses for his construction job and that thing takes abuse pretty well.

Running the lightest OS I could find any modern browser, even those touted as lightweight, absolutely merc'd the single core version.

0:17 Nice analogy there

Why not install chrome OS or the alternative OS of it?

Have you seen those mod builds where guys take older laptops, gut them, and install a Raspberry pi to where it uses the monitor, kb, and trackpad?

I have been using one base model x120e for a CS class, it works fine with Linux and i3wm because who needs bells and whistles for vim, but man do I miss an actually usable machine

Well I still use x120e as main computer. I'm using it hooked to external full HD ips monitor, 256GB SSD and 8GB DDR3L RAM that I bought it in 2012.

what was that thing in the water at 3:20

I have a dual core x120e and I really wish they got more love. They are cool little laptops that are just ridiculously cheap. I used it instead of a chromebook in school because I just can't stand those things especially locked down.

XFCE stale? Wait until you heard about r/unixporn!

had it. love it. selled it - love my x200s :D

This CPU is a strange choice as turion 64 x2 is older and performs a lot better, with an SSD it is useable as netbook+light on the go programming station, I own multiple machines from the era, so I can safely say those work fine for daily usage in 2019

I have the previous version, the X100e...works great, I use mine for amateur radio software....errr well its got all the software installed anyways, haven't yet really dug that far into amateur radio...yet HAHA!!!! Gotta have the money for radio gear first.

i have an x100e just sitting around if you're interested/want to torture yourself my use case for it was mostly just remoting into my desktop for classes, then i bought a t420

✌️😏 i recently pu three Core2Duo Laptops

3:01 NSA Alexas, I've been thinking that for awhile now...

Someone gave me one free about a month ago, the dual core version

wow im early. 360p highest quality.

I thought the maximum RAM capacity is 8GB. You've said you put 10GB (8gb on to of the already-existing 2GB). Did the system read it, really? 😮

every one of these for sale in australia is BIOS locked because they only sold them to schools.

Good lord. 20 bucks?? Thats like what 300.000 idr?

I'm getting some RCR from this video.

I had the x100e in high school.

I once considered the x120e but saw the x250 and bought that instead

1:03 SUCCESSOR* my X120e is the E-350 variant. it had been through hell. up until the end of 2015 I babied it. within 4 years it went from pretty quick budget laptop to "yeah screw you I'm just gonna be slow". win7 was weird on it sometimes, the 8GB of RAM I gave it in 2011 when RAM was cheap and the 750GB drive I slapped in first thing didn't help the E-350's case. while still faster than the E-350, it was still not enough to make it 4 years on. the CPU, like all the E series AMD chips, was limited by the single-channel memory bus, and it only did SATA II, so no improvements using an SSD would have helped much except for loading times for the initial start of programs. back int he day the graphics were enough to run Dirt 3 on medium settings when the game was fairly newish. now I'm not so sure that'd be the case, but it can still play a mean game of half life 2. Minecraft was decentish on all low settings back then too, something I wouldn't dare try on it now. in the years since I've had it, it has gotten moisture ingress in the panel and lost its rubber feet. I did a thermal compound replacement guide on notebookreview for the model back then, and I was one of the first to do this despite the warranty concerns. a couple years ago I almost sold mine after getting a parts unit for $40 for just the screen and anything else to make one good system and sell it for $100, but they're not even worth that anymore. they're garbage, sad to say. you can get more usage life out of an Acer V5-131 with a Celeron 1007U and an SSD, since these have SATA III and are immensely more powerful.

Now I have an x230 boy it's a nice small powerful machine.

"Chinesium" is now apart of my daily language. thanks

I have an x131e it’s great

i just hope they bring back the 8.9"-11.6" 1080p~1600 LCD today, they could just dump in some AMD 4800u, 1065G7 or even tiger lake running 16GB 3733-4266 soldered, with a huge battery, i will put my money down

jam a rpi 3 or lattepanda alpha board in there. it will rock your world.

I prefer the x1 carbon gen 1 and 2

Hey have you looked at the $35 x86 intel based sbc the 'AtomicPi'. I still do not understand how they're making these at this price point but I am not complaining. Here are the specs for the cpu and what it supports en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/atom_x5/x5-z8350 , the cpu was launched in feb.2016. Its great, no searching for armhf img's and compatible OS'es any X86 OS will run including Win10. It comes with on board emmc flash usb 3.0 , a host/device two way switch by the type c socket, 2gb ram, full gigabit, my explanation wouldn't do it justice. Its larger than most sbc's but the only thing coming close is the panda , not the alpha, and its $80 not $35.. They will probably be sold out from now until forever but some people still may get lucky. The only thing I really do not like is the obnoxiously large heatsink, but its an x86 full sized cpu so its needed, I am sure if it remains in demand new cooling solutions will become available.. I have a netbook obsession as well , even though the performance is shit the form factor is great. My most recent one was actually in this video the AspireONE , . It also had hdmi/vga 3 usb ports ethernet (maybe a card reader?).. If I am not mistaken there was even an m.2 slot inside. What I did was install 4MLinux , it doesn't have an official package manager but it does have dpkg and rpm , I loaded a bunch of .deb and rpm and compiled some things from source. At startup with all the processes the graphical desktop and taking a tour of the distro it never broke 100mb of RAM , amazing. There are plenty of images that will actually run fast on netbooks its just a matter of what you need. If your familiar with busybox I would recommend trying minimal/Linux its small the entire installed image is 7mb , again though any applications you want to use outside of the core need to be compiled but the surplus resources makes it worth it to do so, plus your learning things and not just typing apt install.. I really want one of those little thinkpads , if not for anything , for the look..

Someone has been watching RegularCarReviews, it seems.

Mood

Daily reminder that netbooks were much like irl cyberdecks, and we gave them up for shitty tablets without keyboards

The E-240 version was actually terrible the day it was launched. The E-350 was much, much better. Might also want to try throwing on ChromeOS.

You know at least they made it look good

Id get myself an x240 or x250.

I've never thought of water and computers going together all that well, in spite of old T series ThinkkPads tolerating spills on the keyboard. That wet outdoor setting was an unfortunate choice and makes the video seem a bit foolish, which is a shame because the machine is interesting and you are a knowledgeable guy.

It's faster than my 2011 Samsung notebook 9 which I bought with 1500 bucks;;;

I can get one for $50 but the specs are terrible for todays standards, so ill have to upgrade memory at least.

Windows 7 still gets secutiry updates, and it's better use unsuported operating systems than having an unusable system

and the battery lasts 10 min

and today: a 7" GPD Pocket 2 is smaller but more powerful than all of them.

swap the insides of this machine with a RPI

"Family friendly"

Jokes on you, the x131e has intel options and is cheap too.

I would try using Windows 8.1. Still supported yet really lightweight.

360p gang

What the fuck bro?! You do realize you're gonna get demonetized by saying those things, right?

360p squad

I had an x130e with e300 apu. Fortunately I installed Windows 7 32bit. This laptop was so f slow. It played 480p youtube with 100% cpu and office work was very below average. Built and battery was perfect however and so was the keyboard. I bought it for 45$ and sold it for 40$ in a week. Not a fan of these super slow apus.

We had this laptop in highschool. It is the WORST computer on the planet. Beleive it or not we managed to play minecraft at around 5FPS.

🙂 meh never cared for Netbooks too weak and too small but I did pu a cute pink / white one for a GF bk in the day

Am i the only one who care about those red tiny bugs?

So basically, this thing is only good for typing?.(possibly using a Text Editor for coding!) ..and maybe reading?.....LoL! I'll pass....but still....interesting though!!

This guy: Windows 10 isnt usable on this. Also this guy: Uses Chrome on this laptop to demonstrate the point. Boy my old single core Sempron with 1GB of RAM runs 10 8x better than that.