The ThinkPad X120e uses an 11.6-inch (26cm x 14cm)( VGP-BPS13A/S Battery ) matte screen with a native resolution of 1366x768 pixels. This resolution is widespread for 14-inch and even budget 15-inch notebooks, so those who are comfortable with the common 720p resolution should feel right at home with the screen real-estate provided by the X120e. ( Sony VGP-BPS13A/S battery ) Fonts and details, of course,( Vostro 1310 battery ) will be smaller and very fine under the default settings.

With the X-rite i1Display 2, a maximum brightness of 194.8cd/m2 is measured at the top center of the display.( dell vostro 1400 battery ) With a total average of only 185.1 cd/m2, the overall brightness is lower than that of the X100e. We wish the X120e had a brighter screen with levels above 200cd/m2, but on the other hand the display appears to have improved brightness distribution and contrast levels. These could be considered fair tradeoffs for the overall lower brightness,( dell Latitude D620 Battery ) but will mean that the brightness level should definitely be turned up for comfortable outdoor viewing. Subjectively, the screen produces great colors and the image quality is sharp.
Distribution of brightness
The color spectrum coverage of the ( Battery Acer Aspire 4710 ) netbook is unacceptable for professional use due to its extremely limited color space representation when compared to AdobeRGB and sRGB. Still, professional image editors would not want to work with a sub 12-inch display. Compared to the 10.1-inch Samsung NF310 netbook,( Acer Aspire One battery ) the X120e is about the same in terms of color representation,( Vostro 1320 Battery ) but still doesn’t match the performance of larger and more expensive laptop screens such as the 15.5-inch Sony Vaio VPC-EB3Z1E.

X120e vs. Sony VPCEB3Z1E
Built-in webcamThe matte display diffuses most reflections as expected, ( dell Inspiron 1720 Battery ) so outdoor usage in general is not as troublesome. An included 0.3MP webcam is positioned above the screen and works ( Dell inspiron 1520 battery ) better than average under low-light conditions.

Viewing angle stability is similar to that of the X100e,( Dell Inspiron 1420 battery ) which is notebook-typical. Horizontal viewing angles are good, while vertical viewing angles are much less acceptable, especially if viewing from below.( Dell Inspiron 1525 battery ) Colors will almost immediately shift when watching videos at slight vertical angles.

DPC Latency CheckerThe heart of the ThinkPad X120e is the new AMD Fusion E-350 APU.( battery vostro 1510 ) This dual-core processor is a definite upgrade from the single-core Athlon Neo MV40 and is capable of 1080p video playback while promising a low TDP of only 18 watts.( Sony VGP-BPS13/B battery ) Here, the processor runs at a speed of 1.6GHz with 1024KB of L2 cache.

The Fusion processor also integrates a Radeon 6310 GPU,( VGP-BPS13B/B battery ) which offers 80 unified shaders and a performance level far surpassing that of the integrated Radeon HD 3200 in the X100e. GPU-Z shows the Radeon 6310 GPU underclocked at 200MHz (core) and 533MHz (memory) by default with DirectX 11 support. The core clock can reach as high as 492.3MHz when under load, however, according to HWiNFO. ( battery dell Vostro 1520 ) As with many integrated graphics solutions, there is no dedicated VRAM, so the Radeon GPU will instead borrow from the system RAM as needed.

Two gigabytes of PC3-10700 DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz is provided in a single module. The AMD A50M mainboard can support 2 modules maximum and is easily accessible by loosening the three screws from the underside of the X120e. ( Dell inspiron 6400 battery ) This review unit is equipped with two RAM modules for a total of 4GB.

Boot up times are decent, even with no solid-state drive. A cold boot completed in a little under 40 seconds at its default settings.

With the DPC Latency Checker, there is a recurring high latency peak for the X120e, ( HP compaq 8510w battery ) and the problem was found to be related to the Lenovo Power Management Tool. Disabling this tool will remove the latency spikes, but a BIOS and Power Management driver upgrade will solve this problem as well. If the problem is ignored, the user may experience audio stuttering issues when listening to audio streams.

System information Lenovo ThinkPad X120e
In the CPU-oriented benchmarks, ( battery VGP-BPS9/B ) the Fusion E-350 APU shows a massive improvement over the Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU of the X100e. The X120e achieves a score of 9.88 GIPS in Dhrystone and 7.5 GFLOPS in the Whetstone benchmark. Additionally, the netbook is able to finish WPrime 32m in about 72.1 seconds and WPrime 1024m in 2257 seconds.( Aspire 4520 battery ) SuperPi can be competed in 112 seconds and 2458 seconds for 1 million and 32 million digits, respectively.