Question on x120e Performance?

Hello Notebook Review members, just have a quick question on x120e.

I'm planning to purchase a subnotebook that I can carry with me around campus, doing most internet stuff, along with doing hw's in LaTeX as well, and occasional MATLAB.

I have a desktop at home (i5-750) that does most of the heavy work, such as MATLAB coding, so I do not need a powerhouse laptop.

I am currently using p1510d which I bought 4~5years ago, which served me well.

For all the x120e users out there, how does MATLAB run?
would you mind posting the 'bench' results?

I mean I'm not doing super heavy stuff on MATLAB, I can do that at home.
I was just wondering if the x120e can handle basic stuff in MATLAB.

Seems like I don't need a power machine like x201/220, which I can just upgrade my desktop, and would rather spend the money difference on SSD on the x120e.


Thanks!

 

Can't really tell you about Matlab, but I own a Fujitsu P1510D which I've used until its keyboard shorted recently, and I bought a Thinkpad X120e, which is currently waiting in the US to be brought to me in Israel (which unfortunately will take some time), so I feel some kinship.

I think that for single core performance the X120e won't be much faster than the P1510D, but it does have two cores. The larger amount of memory will help also. I expect that in the future OpenCL support in MATLAB will boost performance, but it's in very early stage.

Still, for basic MATLAB stuff I expect that you can use the P1510D's score as an indication.

 

I run MATLAB on a similarly powered processor, runs perfect. But I don't do anything extreme, I think the longest code I've run was ~200 lines

 

Thanks for all the reply!
I just bought a mint used but refurbished X200 for around $430..
Hoping it was a great price!

Just figured, rather I'll use this until the prices for X220 becomes cheaper..

Thanks!

 

The intel cpu in the x200 will be a bit stronger with math based processing vs the AMD zacate.