{"id":439304,"date":"2010-03-17T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=60178"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:08:10","slug":"coffee-break-qa-on-the-thinkpad-x100e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439304","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Break: Q&A on the ThinkPad X100e"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s a beautiful day that called for heading out and working in the local coffee shop. I’ve been here about an hour working on the ThinkPad X100e laptop. I’m getting a lot of questions about the X100e, and it makes sense to do a brief Q&A session to shed further light on this small ThinkPad.<\/p>\n

What is the battery life of the X100e?<\/strong> I have been watching battery life closely, due to concerns about the power consumption of the AMD Neo processor Lenovo is using in the X100e. I am working on battery power presently, and have the power management set to the “Maximum Runtime” setting. ThinkPads have outstanding power management as a rule and I have not customized it on the X100e. I did crank up the screen brightness just a tad, as the coffee shop has all of the blinds open and it’s incredibly bright in here. That will negatively impact the battery life, even at the\u00a0 Maximum Runtime setting. Based on the length of time I have been working and the current battery percentage, I estimate I can work another four hours. The Windows 7 power meter concurs as it currently estimates 3:55 remaining. I suspect that Lenovo has tweaked the BIOS or other system operation, as this is longer than early reports from other reviewers have indicated. This run time concurs with what I have experienced both yesterday and today.<\/p>\n

How good is the performance?<\/strong> My working experience pegs the X100e between Atom-based netbooks and fast notebooks. It is not a screamer, but things happen faster than on a netbook. There is very little lag during operation, and I don’t find myself wishing it was faster.<\/p>\n

Does it play HD video?<\/strong> This one is not easy to answer. I find SD video of any kind will play fine, even in full screen mode. I have successfully watched HD video on Hulu, although it gets choppy in full screen mode. The Flash video here on our site is choppy in HD even in a small window. YouTube high quality video plays fine both windowed and in full screen mode. I guess technically the high quality videos of each of these sources are not necessarily true HD.<\/p>\n

Does it get too hot?<\/strong> I find it is warmer than Atom-based netbooks, but not alarmingly so. It’s certainly not too hot.<\/p>\n

Please leave any other questions you may have about the X100e here in the comments. This is obviously a very popular notebook, given the constant pinging\u00a0 with various questions. I’ll answer anything I can so just ask away.<\/p>\n

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