For 50 bucks on eBay I think it’s pretty decent. I just use it mostly for travel or to send a quick email at home when I don’t want to type on my phone. Thanks for the review!
I have an x131e which is basicly the same laptop. Not bad at all for carrying it around in my bag while i ride my bicycle. Not for gaming or video editing but quite fine for surfing and doing office tasks. Got mine busted for 50 euros.
Also ... I rarely use the keyboard and track pad on laptops, I'm almost always using wireless keyboard and mouse. It's just more comfortable. I know, I should just get a desktop computer but I never do.
@Troy-Z-in-KC: It's a good-thing that you do that. It saves on the wear-and-tear of the built-in keyboard of the laptop. And like you said: Ergonomics. It's better and more-Comfortable.
I paid $80 for mine with a red lid in A grade condition from an education surplus auction on eBay, I then threw Manjaro Deepin Linux on it, and bumped up the RAM to 8GB along with a 500GB WD HDD(had both laying around in the parts bin, and will upgrade to an SSD down the road) and it's fantastic for a couch PC, and one to keep in my backpack as a 2nd work computer, or travel computer. I would not pay more then $100 USD max. my only real complaint is like you the trackpad is not the greatest, but thankfully it has a trackpoint which I don't mind. Also to note if you come across any of the X131e units cheap(non Chromebook version only unless you don't need the keyboard) they can be a good source parts as mostly everything is the same down to the power supply. the only major difference is the motherboard itself.
I think probably your right trackpad click must be faulty, it should work. Lenovo gives the option of both in those models, but I would prefer two buttons
you do have 3 buttons at the top of the trackpad, not the most ergonomic when using with the trackpad, but works, and they are really in the right position for the track point.
@@CommodoreFan64 that's what those buttons are for: for the pointing-stick ("trackpoint" is the proprietary name that Lenovo gave for the "pointing stick"; "trackpad" is the proprietary name that Lenovo gave to the touchpad as a counterpart to the proprietary-name they gave to the pointing-stick). The buttons below the keyboard are for the pointing-stick; the buttons below the touchpad are for the touchpad.
This is my daily driver right now with BodhiLinux 6 on it, moksha desktop (a fork of the enlightenment desktop environment) I just surf (using a few different browsers like Vivaldi and Brave) watch RUclips videos on it and once in a while I play LinCity, solitaire or even a steam game (Lux Deluxe... Axis and Allies kind of game). Budget is a little tight these days so I am adding 4gb more ram and replacing the 500gb HDD with a 1tb SSD ... in the next week or so. I will eventually replace this laptop (notebook) with something newER in a year or two. I am squeezing some life out of it for now 😆 it's not bad ... thank goodness for Linux.
For 50 bucks on eBay I think it’s pretty decent. I just use it mostly for travel or to send a quick email at home when I don’t want to type on my phone. Thanks for the review!
Yep it's a great portable laptop. Hope you like it!
I have an x131e which is basicly the same laptop. Not bad at all for carrying it around in my bag while i ride my bicycle. Not for gaming or video editing but quite fine for surfing and doing office tasks. Got mine busted for 50 euros.
Also ... I rarely use the keyboard and track pad on laptops, I'm almost always using wireless keyboard and mouse. It's just more comfortable. I know, I should just get a desktop computer but I never do.
@Troy-Z-in-KC:
It's a good-thing that you do that. It saves on the wear-and-tear of the built-in keyboard of the laptop.
And like you said: Ergonomics. It's better and more-Comfortable.
Great review. Thanks
Thanks for the review. I just picked one up at Goodwill Online for $25 and plan to give it a full RAM and SSD upgrade.
I paid $80 for mine with a red lid in A grade condition from an education surplus auction on eBay, I then threw Manjaro Deepin Linux on it, and bumped up the RAM to 8GB along with a 500GB WD HDD(had both laying around in the parts bin, and will upgrade to an SSD down the road) and it's fantastic for a couch PC, and one to keep in my backpack as a 2nd work computer, or travel computer. I would not pay more then $100 USD max. my only real complaint is like you the trackpad is not the greatest, but thankfully it has a trackpoint which I don't mind. Also to note if you come across any of the X131e units cheap(non Chromebook version only unless you don't need the keyboard) they can be a good source parts as mostly everything is the same down to the power supply. the only major difference is the motherboard itself.
I think probably your right trackpad click must be faulty, it should work. Lenovo gives the option of both in those models, but I would prefer two buttons
Good to know
you do have 3 buttons at the top of the trackpad, not the most ergonomic when using with the trackpad, but works, and they are really in the right position for the track point.
@@CommodoreFan64 that's what those buttons are for: for the pointing-stick ("trackpoint" is the proprietary name that Lenovo gave for the "pointing stick"; "trackpad" is the proprietary name that Lenovo gave to the touchpad as a counterpart to the proprietary-name they gave to the pointing-stick).
The buttons below the keyboard are for the pointing-stick; the buttons below the touchpad are for the touchpad.
This is my daily driver right now with BodhiLinux 6 on it, moksha desktop (a fork of the enlightenment desktop environment) I just surf (using a few different browsers like Vivaldi and Brave) watch RUclips videos on it and once in a while I play LinCity, solitaire or even a steam game (Lux Deluxe... Axis and Allies kind of game). Budget is a little tight these days so I am adding 4gb more ram and replacing the 500gb HDD with a 1tb SSD ... in the next week or so. I will eventually replace this laptop (notebook) with something newER in a year or two. I am squeezing some life out of it for now 😆 it's not bad ... thank goodness for Linux.
The touchpad does have a right click, you just have to click at the bottom right edge for some odd reason.
Can we install win 10 home edition?
Yes, it'll work