The ThinkPad E series may be the bottom of the barrel for the ThinkPad line, but that does not make them bad machines. For the newest version, Lenovo is returning the line back to fully upgradable RAM with two SO-DIMM slots.
"A bigger change than the upgrade of the memory type is the fact that the memory is no longer partially soldered: E14 G6 and E16 G1 have two SO-DIMM slots now for up to 64 GB of completely upgradeable memory."