It's a nice device, especially if you like the look of the old and new Thinkpads. The cover is rubberized - super. The build quality is good (not very good) but this is in this price range something special. Nothing creaks, the hinges appear stable, the keyboard is stuck. The cover the silver rim fact surmounted felt by a few milli Menter fractions. Sharp edges - as in another review here - I would not call. Perhaps Lenovo has also been improved.
The equipment with Core i3 processor is decent, in other devices you only get Pentium and Celeron CPUs - this one has 2 cores with hyperthreading and virtualization support and 3MByte L2 cache. 4 GB of RAM are sufficient. USB3 is still rare in the netbookartigen devices. Nice to have here are 2 ports there. An additional USB 2.0Port's also.
On the matte display, the black does not look as crisp out how to reflective display and it would like to be a bit brighter, but it is so well served. the 1366 x 768 pixels provide a seal of 135ppi pixel - which is of course less than Apple's Retina displays or many HD smartphone, but still better than the 96ppi of standard monitors.
For battery life I can only make limited statements: currently it reaches about 6.5 hours of bright display and Wi-Fi connected. The value is true, however, for Ubuntu Linux 10.13 and I have the new power saving modes (p-states) of the processor can not activate. However, this is not a failure of Lenovo, but from Canonical / Ubuntu. They decided that the PSTATE driver is disabled by default. I wear for the duration once that the change would have succeeded.
I particularly like the expandability: With three screws at the bottom of a pretty big mouth is open and to get closer to everything. There is a free mSATA slot for an SSD and a free RAM slot. The upgraded with additional RAM 4GByte worth twice: First, more RAM - clear. Second, the CPU 2 and memory controller may be used with a RAM module, only one of which - with the second RAM module, the computer is therefore faster. Beautiful is also that one SSD and HD can use the unit simultaneously. So you come out with a little fast SSD for programs and data and work has on the rotating grate plenty of space for backup, archive, movies and music collections.
A pretty little detail: the screws inside are marked with eingprƤgten symbols which indicate at what part they belong - so screwed not accidentally release the keyboard, if you want to replace the hard disk.
Again, just the pros and cons:
+ In the price range good workmanship
+ Expandability (SSD and RAM)
+ Good keyboard
+ USB 3.0
+ HDMI and VGA
+ Matte screen
+ Ubuntu Certified, works out-of-the-box
- Fn and Ctrl key reversed
- WLAN in the 5 GHz band not radioed
[Update] Now I have the equipment for a while in operation and I'm still excited. I could activate the power saving modes of the processor and have made some improvements in energy consumption. The term has been extended with fully charged battery at about 7:10. But I have the device also equipped with an additional mSATA SSD and another 4GB of RAM. The speed convinced me still so much that I have for the time being postponed to buy a new desktop PCs for an indefinite period.