The reputation of thinkpads in a cheap ultraportable? Awesome.

But ditched the infamous keyboard, opted for an AMD processor…we'll see how heat and battery life turnout (probably not good). It'll probably have to be atleast half the price of the x200 to make it worth it.

Will the “Nile” based processors be compatible with this? Also, no HDMI? Lame.

Dinally a 11.6 that weighs less than 3lb. This should motivate all the 11.6 CULV netbook manufacturers to reduce their existing 1.5/1.6KG weight to more lighter machines.

If Sony can come out with the 600g/700g 11.1 inch X series, I don't see why Dell, HP etc cannot do so.

1.5KG for a 11.6 is very heavy in today's standards. After all, that weight/screen size ratio was achieved years ago.

This is good, it means Lenovo is finally not afraid of Intel, the anti-trust lawsuits and fines are finally taking their effect. Also the fact that it's got an over-11-inch screen means that it falls outside the strict guidelines of what constitute a netbook by Intel & Microsoft, namely a screen less than 11-inches. I expect that the performance will be much better than typical netbooks, it will be able to run Vista or Windows 7 with full Aero, whereas typical Atom netbooks break a sweat just trying to run XP.

Looks great, and is exactly what I want out of an 11.6. I’m waiting for the MSI u230, since I don’t need the pointing stick…BUT. I won’t wait too long. If the U230 isn’t out and available soon, I’ll go with the X100e.

Real graphics and a real cpu is what I’ve been waiting for. Ion and Intel CULV have too many compromises for me – it’s really either a choice between a real processor or a real GPU. Finally, we are going to have the option of both.

Because they don’t want to rely on kludgy work arounds when they go to do anything remotely related to gaming? Wine is, and always will be, a kludge. There is a significant sector of the market that will not buy a computer that they cannot fire up a game on. You can game on Linux, and believe me, I agree that for strictly mainstream applications and IT related tasks, Linux rocks.

For average people, though, you have to implement too many kludges to get games working under Linux. That’s why.

i don’t particularly care what os anybody uses, but i doubt people will be buying the x100e for anything related to gaming. unless it’s doom, in which case linux will do fine.