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Yes, I would agree about the X140e. (The 'e' stands for economy == cheap) The problem is that Lenovo calls just about anything a Thinkpad these days. The inner

Yes, I would agree about the X140e. (The 'e' stands for economy == cheap) The problem is that Lenovo calls just about anything a Thinkpad these days. The inner circle is what you find in this list. You will see that the X1_0es are not listed. I have an X120e, and I bought it since it was the absolute cheapest I could find that still had some "Thinkpadness" to it. I can see that the model line went downhill from there.

ggreer 11y ago
I agree that the X140e is the least ThinkPad-y of the recent ThinkPads. I didn't mean to single it out, but it's the ThinkPad I've used the most. I've also tried the 2nd-gen X1 Carbon and the X230. Those had similar design flaws. If anything, the X1 Carbon was worse. Seriously, the keyboard was a nightmare.[1] Like the X140e, the X230's fan ramped up/down in discrete increments instead of continuously varying. The fingerprint reader was useless. One particularly annoying bug in the X230 was its headphone jack. I don't know what kind of worthless shielding it used, but I could hear the SSD and CPU working. That sort of noise is literally unheard of in macs from the same period. I've used netbooks with better audio quality. Again, it's a ton of small things that need to be done right to impress a feeling of quality. I would love to see that sort of quality from a company other than Apple, but lately I'm coming up empty. 1. Caps lock was replaced with home/end. Escape moved to backtick/~, which was placed between right ctrl and alt. Backspace and delete were put right next to each other. Oh, and all the function keys were removed. See http://college.wfu.edu/itg/wp-content/uploads/keyboard.png http://college.wfu.edu/itg/wp-content/uploads/keyboard.png for the whole horror show.
- pareidolia 11y ago
  I have a Samsung 840 SSD in another laptop that I can hear from a meter a way - without headphones. Adaptive "keys" -> avoid like the plague

ggreer 11y ago

I agree that the X140e is the least ThinkPad-y of the recent ThinkPads. I didn't mean to single it out, but it's the ThinkPad I've used the most. I've also tried the 2nd-gen X1 Carbon and the X230. Those had similar design flaws. If anything, the X1 Carbon was worse. Seriously, the keyboard was a nightmare.[1] Like the X140e, the X230's fan ramped up/down in discrete increments instead of continuously varying. The fingerprint reader was useless. One particularly annoying bug in the X230 was its headphone jack. I don't know what kind of worthless shielding it used, but I could hear the SSD and CPU working. That sort of noise is literally unheard of in macs from the same period. I've used netbooks with better audio quality. Again, it's a ton of small things that need to be done right to impress a feeling of quality. I would love to see that sort of quality from a company other than Apple, but lately I'm coming up empty. 1. Caps lock was replaced with home/end. Escape moved to backtick/~, which was placed between right ctrl and alt. Backspace and delete were put right next to each other. Oh, and all the function keys were removed. See http://college.wfu.edu/itg/wp-content/uploads/keyboard.png http://college.wfu.edu/itg/wp-content/uploads/keyboard.png for the whole horror show.

pareidolia 11y ago
I have a Samsung 840 SSD in another laptop that I can hear from a meter a way - without headphones. Adaptive "keys" -> avoid like the plague