Lenovo ThinkPad Mini 10 lives, but only for Aussie students

Apr 22nd 2010
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If you’ve been dying to get your hands on a ThinkPad netbook — and we mean a real Atom-based, 10-inch ThinkPad — we’ve got some good news and bad. The good is that Lenovo has indeed been making them, the bad is that you’ll have to enroll in a school in New South Wales to get one. Yep, the official word from Lenovo is that the product was a one off deal for the Australian school district. Luckily one unit escaped from the land down under and ended up in our hands yesterday, though we must admit the little laptop is pretty underwhelming since it’s just a X100e with a 1024×600 10-inch screen, rather than the original 11.6-inch one. But if an overflowing bezel is your thing, you’ll want to enroll in Summer Heights High ASAP (video after the break for those that are unfamiliar with the amazing, yet expired HBO show). We also confirmed that it has an 1.6GHz Atom N450 processor, which has less power than the AMD Neo being used in the X100e, but we’d venture to guess pumps out at least two more hours of juice with the same six-cell battery. The hands-on pictures below are probably the closest you’ll come to seeing one of these, so click on through.

Gallery: Lenovo ThinkPad Mini 10 netbook