Lenovo ThinkPad X100e / Mini 10

Great little notepad once you've made some basic changes – I picked one up recently (second hand) for $10.00. I upgraded the memory from 1GB to 2GB which is more useful, but didn't upgrade the hard disk because it is of the older IDE type. Besides, the Mini 10 happily accepts external 2.5 inch hard drives up to any capacity.. I then did a clean install of Linux Mint 17.3 (32bit version) from a USB… Read more ·  1

stick, overwriting the original Windows operating system. Linux is a much smaller operating system than Windows so it boots more quickly and runs at least 2 times faster.

I then downloaded a range of free Open Source applications including LibreOffice (95% compatible with MS Office), Thunderbird (email client), Chromium web browser (the open source version of Chrome), VLC to watch videos and Clementine Music Player to listen to my MP3 collection and Internet Radio.

It is a great little travelling companion, very light to carry, easily fits into a backpack and the battery lasts for hours.

It's not the fastest computer on the block, but who cares, I only paid $10 for it, and I only use it for browsing and checking my email. I carry an external drive that contains a decent collection of music and around 100 movies, and use my smart phone as a modem when I'm travelling.

School says you can keep laptop after HSC, Cant be reinstalled – I attempted to fix this laptop on behalf of an ex HSC student. Her windows 7 user password was reset remotely by DET and she could not log into the lenovo mini 10. She was told she could keep the laptop. Anyways, i attempted to reset the windows 7 password. Bios is passworded up the guts and i could not get into command promt without an admin… Read more

password to insert "net user Johnsmith <password>. The only option was to hopefully remove the BIOS battery overnight, and hope to remove the bios password so i could change the boot priority to USB/portable DVD drive so i could reinstall windows. Apparently because of Lenovo working with the Australian Department of Education, they have hardwired the BIOS so that any detection of a chassis intrusion results in the BIOS being shutdown completely. This PC wont even boot, It turns on fine but nothing happens. people are correct to say that this piece of student issued hardware is a complete waste of taxpayers money. It is now nothing more than a brick and cannot be repurposed. Not to mention the laptop is junked up with government spyware and tracking software. There is a hard hack but it involves physical contacts on the motherboard to reflash the BIOS but it is risky. They really dont want thier students screwing with these laptops -.-

great little netbook – I have owned this lenovo netbook for about a year now.. I bought it used online at a reasonable price. my reasons were ultra portability on a motorbike.. long battery life and windows 7. the machine only has 1gb of memory which is less than ideal but it was always performed reasonably well.. i will upgrade the memory at a later stage which is… Read more

cheap enough and easy enough to do.. i have never regretted buying the Lenovo netbook mini.. it has never let me down.. i suspect the hard drive was replaced sometime before i bought the netbook as the partition was missing. reinstalling the os from a usb is easy..

being a netbook, expectations have to be realistic.. it is not a gaming machine.

its greatness is in its portability.. price, portability,battery life,windows7, nice keyboard only 1gb memory..

Awful – Ive had 5 of these 2 of wich the hard rive failed and the other 3 the cpu [censored word removed] itself. Not only that they come with 2gb ram and win7 req minium 1gb and win 7 with sp1 requires 1.5gb. So all up these things at my school have now earened the name the cap tops. Tho i do have a nice stack of ram wifi cards building up in a box… Read more

somewhere from these.

If only i could rate this a negative -50 i got 5 of these for free when each died. battery life every thing. design quality

Ok – The system is slow enough, but can be slightly tuned up simply by changing the theme to classic. i got this laptop for free from school so i dont care too much about the price. It's fairly light so it's easy to carry it around, I dont have any trouble with the screen yet. Light weight slow performance and bad graphics, unreliable

I'm sticking with pen and paper thanks – The Lenovo Mini 10 - given to school students graduating in the year of 2013 by the Australian Government. This laptop is an absolute joke. The whole product, if you can believe it, costs $500-$600 dollars. Students, who can afford it, are better off buying their own laptop. One can find a better laptop for $500-$600. Just about everything… Read more

is wrong with this product - the screen is miniscule, 10 inches by 6. The battery life lasts for about 4 to 5 hours, despite the fact that most schools have a 6 to 6.5 hour day.

The laptop comes with a case that actually damages the screen of the laptop - the cases were called back, and were replaced by Lenovo, which was good.

1.6 GHz processor, and a 120GB hard drive.

One can actually break the laptop without actually trying - the frame is simply weak. Since its release, many students have had issues with the laptop, from damaged frames to the more common cracked screens and the Blue Screen. Fixing the screen costs $300, replacing the motherboard is $650 - one is certainly better off shopping around and buying a better laptop for $500-$600.

To conclude, I'd like to say that this was a waste of taxpayers money, and personally, I'm sticking with pen and paper thanks. Lightweight, and at least school students get it for free, or at the expense of the Australian Taxpayer. Students get it for free - this benefits the financially disadvantaged the most. Miniscule screen (10 inch), slow, whole product costs around $500-$600 (absolutely not worth this price), comes with a plastic case that is weak and actually damages the laptop screen. Battery life is a farce. It is extremely fragile - hold the product at the wrong spot, and the screen could crack.