+ Display like very much. Yes, it reflects very, but that does not bother me. I also think it's not too dark.
+ The touchscreen I use very often when reading websites and PDFs to scroll. He is fun.
+ For disk conversion / retrofit RAM (1 of 2 places is still free) there is a good conversion instructions from Lenovo. It is glued to nothing, all Phillips-head screws (! Different length!), The motherboard must not be unscrewed. For this high praise, but maintenance flaps would have been even better. For every prudent lay open the housing can be done! One of the screws under the keyboard is stuck with a small seal that must be destroyed to open the housing, to guarantee I can say nothing.
+ Very quiet
- Laptop "wobble", the foot right ahead depends depending on the display position 2mm in the air. I was just before sending back, but now the sculpture has probably a little distorted again in the right direction, so that it no longer bothers me.
- The battery is not removable from the outside and not very persistent (about 3-4 hours at average load).
- Neither hard disk nor RAM can be upgraded via a maintenance hatch. The housing must be opened completely.
- A drive bay exists, there are internal but unfortunately laid no connections, eg for a second hard disk or drive.
- Sorry, no backlit keyboard
- Volume, brightness, and other system keys occupy the F-keys (F1, etc.) so that they + F1 can only be accessed using a key combination, such as Fn. For example, Excel annoying.
- Resetting of Windows to its factory settings is easy (accessible pin), but takes> 1 hour. A Windows installation is much faster.
- Touchpad is indeed pleasant, but very many gestures such as two-finger tap for right click will not (have long researched and tested many drivers - no chance). World of difference to a Mac. The touchpad is from ALPS, but there is unfortunately no good Gesture Suite.
- BIOS only accessible by pin.
- Windows device before the first use takes a long time (without SSD)
- No Windows-DVD included. Though it can create a recovery disk - but 1 lasts a very long time (> 30min, almost 16GB) and 2. then not working at this for installation on another hard drive.
- If one of the preinstalled Lenovo programs manually stopped, it may be that the hardware keyboard is disabled and only the touch screen works, even in normal, not folded, mode and also after every reboot. The problem is well known and there are to many threads in the forums Lenovo, Lenovo has no solution except to restore factory settings. (With a clean install Windows works disabling the keyboard without any Lenovo program automatically when back flaps of the display).
Neutral:
- There is a Numblock (with 0 centered instead of left), therefore, the letter keys to the left and keeping the hands when writing is not centered on the laptop.
- 4GB RAM rather scarce, but ok for the price and in case of doubt, easily upgradeable.
- The keyboard looks a bit shaky, but you get used to it quickly. All keys respond easily to me.
- Design slightly clunky but ok.
- Windows 8.1 has the desktop mode with some programs still major problems with scaling for high definition displays. By FullHD resolution on 15 "results in a very high pixel density / DPI. Programs such as Device Manager, Matlab, ArchiCAD, blender and much more., Depending on the setting either tiny with small fonts, or fonts are through larger pixelated and blurry . This is disappointing, but this laptop can not help it (is all FullHD Windows laptops so). In some programs, it is possible to set the font sizes individually, then this problem does not to.
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Problems Reinstalling Windows for disk replacement:
The Windows installation was unfortunately inconvenient. There is no supplied Windows CD. Instead, it has the possibility of a recovery disk (eg with min. 16GB! USB stick) from Windows to create out (Windows Images are usually <4GB). After installing the SSD I wanted to boot from this USB stick, but this has worked in the BIOS after setting the "Legacy" mode instead of UEFI. Also, I could not at the USB 3.0 port boot, but only to the USB 2.0 ports of a USB flash drive. When "Reset to original state" came after about an hour the flat-rate error message "there was a problem with the installation." Then I gave up.
I had a Windows (not 8.1) lying around 8 ISO. This I could install quickly (set again in the BIOS Legacy) but unfortunately funtionieren many of the drivers provided with Windows 8.1, but not with Windows 8! In particular, the wireless driver. That meant for me: an evening hanging on the LAN cable and install Windows updates. He has since updated on Win 8.1 runs smoothly and very quickly - did not think that I will be satisfied with a i3.
Conclusion: Instead of this laptop for 399 (flash range) + 100 SSD, I would next time probably the
Lenovo Flex 2-15 with i3 (1.9GHz), 256GB SSD, FHD IPS (539 in the flash range)
accurate look.
