This is not a gaming laptop… Don’t expect it to perform like one.
The Thinkpad series is intended for business. It doesn’t have a shiny colorful outside, no high end graphics card, and it won’t play WOW on “ultra”.
What it will do is be rock solid and reliable, with an excellent keyboard and good performance running most applications, even some high end softwares like Solidworks, AutoCad, Pro-engineer, and probably Photoshop.
I’ve got the x120e and I love this damn thing. It’s 100 times the computer any similar sized netbook is and gets 7 hrs battery life on conservative settings with the 9 cell battery.
If you need a laptop, you can’t go wrong with this one for $500.