X120e - E240 or E350?

[bealdrid]

Hi, long time reader of this board and haven't posted simply due to the wealth of knowledge already here.

Last night my faithful R32 drive bit the dust, and instead of paying $55 for a replacement ATA drive I'm seriously considering an X120e (and have been for a while). Mainly I'm attracted to this thing due to the thinkpad name, weight, and most importantly price. I don't do any CPU intensive operations such as gaming or running database servers, but just light browsing, email, youtube, etc. My question is how much better would it be to cough up the extra $50 for the E-350 dual core vs the E-240. Is it really worth it keeping in mind how I'll be using the thing? Also a lot of the E-240 ones come with Win 7 Home 32-bit. Same question, is it really necessary to have Win 7 64-bit Professional? How much RAM can Win7 32-bit recognize? I know XP can only see 3GB or something.

Thoughts and experiences would be great, even if you don't have the x120e.

Thanks:)

[ausmike]

hi beal*;
from what you described as your requirments....
an SURE you can go here and get SAME THING lots cheaper... or even look for a R Series - saw few there some days ago!! Even have (E240 new for $332)there at cheaper than the MAIN PAGE - with WARRANTY > and its no different !

Hope this helps
Cheers

[hmmwv]

E350 will give you a huge performance gain over the E240. Even the E350 is not as powerful as the Neo x2 L625 in the x100e, so I can't imagine the performance of the E240. Remember you can upgrade RAM, HDD, Wifi, WWAN, BT, and battery, but you can't upgrade the CPU without void the warranty. You don't necessarily need Win 7 Pro, but make sure to get Win 7 Home 64bit as down the road you will need the extra RAM support. Currently 32bit can only see 3Gb of RAM.

[bealdrid]

Thanks, both of you.

ausmike, I actually purchased the one on the outlet for $332. Great deal, and even though its the E-240, I believe for my needs it will suffice. So far I am quite happy.

[ausmike]

bea*;
Glad you got your ,Laptop from outlet; I got a few for ffriends and family for college etc .. and they very happy with it - and you get FREE FULL WARRANTY with it......However I did have ONE LAPTOP that was a real DOOZeeee .... nothing matched - hardware wise to that I ordered - and they were very QUICK to give me my money back.
You be ideal candidate to (maybe) drive over to TECH PARK and get ome of those laptops in person !!! (( not sure if they still allow that since LENOVO took over the PC dividion from IBM) ,,,

ayho - glad you got a deal and yes '240= not thatmuch slower then the 350 ( I had a chance to play with both of these for couple of days recently)

Cheers!