 So I needed a new laptop. My aging HP was well aging. I really liked it. It was a HP Elite book It was the quad core i7 one, but I kind of wanted something more portable I mean that was a great workhorse and it ran Linux great So I set out looking for another laptop and I came across this IBM X250 on a Lenovo Outlet Center And I decided, you know, I've seen some reviews But I wasn't super clear whether or not it ran Linux out of the box and it turns out it does No tweaks, no nothing. So I figured I'd do a review I mean there's other reviews of the laptop and gives you some of the hardware details and teardowns But sometimes as a Linux user you're trying to find a good laptop But you want it to not have a bunch of problems And you don't want to have to hunt down drivers and try to compile a bunch of different components And this Ultrabook really fits it. Now, this is a smaller 12 and a half inch one But I did get the 1920-1280 screen. I need all the pixels. HD is important And everything. I've had to load nothing. It's all stock a bunch of all of the buttons work All of the different controls the volume controls the screen brighter dim Everything right out of the box has been working great for this the keyboard light It does have a backlit keyboard the keys on this really nice to type on I've seen some reviews that said they were good to type on and The Lenovo series have really never disappointed when it comes to that They've always been really solid performers and have really good keyboards. They're really ideal for the business class It does fold down completely flat, which is nice. So when you're laying it flat, you can spin it around Bring it all the way down. I had kind of a novel feature Backlit keyboard good battery life really good. I'm kind of shocked at how long the battery lasts on this now This particular model actually they shipped it to me with an extended battery But no internal battery. This actually has two batteries in it on some models. You can order it So I'm fine with just the one single external battery I've been able to get about five or six hours consistently out of a lot of problem under pretty normal usage Under intense usage it dropped down to maybe three hours But of course say that's the thing with these scaling processors you do very little and just look at something static It's gonna last a lot longer The only things I don't really like on the finish here is that it certainly has a Lot of fingerprints just me touching it right now it fingerprints up easy That's the only real downside of it, but it's it's been a really good laptop I've only had it for a week now, but in the week. I've had it I've just had no issues and that's what I wanted to reiterate So if you're looking at a Linux laptop this one, I'm running a bunch of 1610 on there I might try some other distros on it and play around a little bit But really have an issue now the fan noise on this is also impressively quiet Even pinning the processors doing some video rendering on it, which it seems to do respectively for a low-powered i5 The fan noise on this is really really minimal now my only complaint about this is the Location of the function and control keys now it seems like it wouldn't be a problem You're so used to doing you know control a or control c or control v You know for different commands, and you're just finger wants to go to that well Lenovo's got you covered You go into bios and in the settings and they have an option to swap the function and control keys And it just flips them in reverse and away you go So now this is actually control and that's function so that did solve my only real complaint I've had with this laptop with the trackpad Works well it also makes this is a problem I've run to with some of the other ultra books that I tried I had a Sony of about a year and a half ago And it was always tricky getting the the trackpad settings to ignore your palm when it was on there So this does a really good job of palm rejection and no real issues there It only has two USB ports, but it does come with a VGA and display port So for me I do presentations, so that's going to be really handy So I can you know some of the older places other places you go to only have VGA Others do have the newer htmi and you can get a mini it has a mini display port so you can get a mini display port to HDMI adapter for these you find them on Amazon pretty cheap It also comes with a built-in network jack, so I don't have to use a USB dongle Some of the ultra books have omitted putting in rj45 network jack. This does have that on there I do some of the onsites or diagnostics It's really handy when you're setting up a network to make sure you have an easy way to hardware plug in without like a USB dongle The other thing the wireless no special drivers I'm using all the free open source drivers inside of Ubuntu and all of them seem to work perfectly fine with this So I just wanted to do that quick overview of them So if you're looking for a Linux laptop this IBM X 250 and I believe a lot of the Lenovo's are but this one in Particular I can tell you for a fact out of the box Ubuntu 1610 what I have running on here now Works perfectly fine. I'm sure several other Linux distributions will work on here, too But that's my quick overview of the Lenovo X 250. Oh, also this IPS screen Absolutely beautiful. Definitely a great screen. I'm gonna do a close-up over here And as you can see that it just the colors pop pretty good. I know I didn't do an sRGB test But I looked at all the reviews. I know it's not a 100% color accurate So it's not like a really photo editing, but it is crisp and clear and easy to read and I'm looking a lot in Terminal screens, so it covers that pretty well. So that's it for the review of this IBM and thank you for watching Like and subscribe if you like to content here