Display:
The decisive argument for buying was clearly the touch display. This is very precise and delicate. The slightest touch is sufficient. If something wrong is pressed, it has also squashed. The display has never "wrong" with me or was inaccurate, or even "spongy". Operation is made easy with up to 10 fingers. Even the regular touchpad supports operation with several fingers (successfully tested to 3 fingers), Handball recognition and all standard Windows gestures. So even Windows 8.1 does (not installed!) Really make sense. While you will always prints on the screen, but the thing is done by touch devices not help. You have from time to time to clean up. But for the display makes enough resistance that it is not even in umklappt more vigorous pressures. Of course, this does not apply if you downright rumprügelt it, but with proper use, it remains exactly where it should be. The display responds the way not to touch, but to charge for pen operation so a capacitive stylus is required. It may also be that some users a bit (but minimal) need to press harder possibly because one person to another is different "loaded".
The colors are brilliant, the image is razor sharp. Also in brightness, it is okay. On screen, there have been no complaints. The viewing angle is rather limited compared to desktop monitors. Especially from above you can see nothing, from the side, it is also difficult, however. More than 2 people can not sit in front of it certainly. A good image is obtained in fact only if you sit in front of it. With a laptop I have to say that right makes sense, because if you in public (at work or at the university) work with it, you will not, that a someone looks surreptitiously over his shoulder.
OS:
Preinstalled was some nonsense called FreeDOS, which in principle nothing could except command line. But it was not a problem, subsequently successively parallel to install Windows 8.1 and Linux via USB and encrypt each. On Windows, I have to say clearly, is the laptop outstanding! It runs fast and smooth and the surrounding area is ideally suited to touch systems. For Kubuntu Linux however, it is probably still too new. There, the touch operation is a disaster and the CPU is running in idle mode due to poor hardware utilization as a world champion, what the battery sucks empty in no more than 2 hours. At least one core is always running here at 100%, for whatever reason.
Optics, processing:
The laptop is made of plastic whose surface is brushed and thus looks extremely chic. Collapsed Also it looks through the striking, defined by the Flex function properly form of something. I've seen a lot uglier by Lenovo, and corresponding models, however, were a bit dated.
Still, it seems a bit fragile. The keyboard has some play, as if it was "squeezed" in too small a form. The numeric keypad, it is therefore a little wavy. You hardly feel the almost, but it looks obliquely from the front. Also, the mouse pad looks a bit unstable when you press the buttons. The latter are, by the way, integrated into the pad, thus also sensitive to touch. In addition, the plastic is on the outer edges slightly (can be, so to speak "push"), if you hold the laptop in one hand and the thumb of up quite strongly expresses it. Broken, it is not, so do not worry. The ports and jacks are a bit wobbly, at least as far as the left-side connectors for HDMI and USB3. There it fell upon me, because the cables hanging on this page from the table edge.
Operation / Flex:
The display can be folded down so far that you can perfectly look at it when you are sitting in front of it (300 ° are shown). Desks are well known, a little deeper, but never became a problem. The operation by touch is folded more easily because the distance to the screen is significantly lower. All ports including the start button lie at the edges of the left and right, are therefore never in the way or be hindered in the folded state. The laptop is designed so that the keyboard or the touch pad in the folded state can not be pressed accidentally, even if you have the laptop lying in her lap.
The surface can not scratch while the rubber pads that are attached to all points of support (and incidentally hold bombproof, because I'm from the other well-known manufacturers some stayed elsewhere). Here however is also equal to the first criticism. It is precisely the rubber buffer in the lower left corner, unfortunately interferes massively. The forearm is at work permanently on and Schubbert uncomfortably in the long wound. Right luckily enough clearance because one can not rule on the buffer. Also, the laptop heats uncomfortable as it was at an earlier model from Lenovo with appropriate cooling technology never the case. Somewhere you have to make at the unbeatable price but swabs. It is also not so that the laptop is hot (on an HP laptop, for example, I once had burned my thighs, because it was extremely hot). However, it is not cool, so you get something like sweaty fingers, which can quickly become uncomfortable after prolonged operation. This is probably sometimes to the APU, which is obviously in the top right corner of the touch pad, so almost there, where you have the hand are normally. There, the machine heats up most of what you clearly notice under load.
I particularly like that even small elevations, so supports are mounted below the laptop, so it can not overheat due to lack of fresh air. One problem, for example, the HP computer had at that time.
Still to be mentioned are the extra buttons that you can normally activate on the FN key. In this case the function keys are activated by FN (ie the other way around). Something unusual, perhaps, but not practical in any case. Because it is not so that one the F-keys much less need than the extra keys? Lenovo has a matter of mind that F5 and Alt-F4 are relatively permanently required. Therefore remains F5 without FN key F5 and F4 accepts Alt-F4 and closes the active window. The latter I personally, in spite of good planning, a bit disturbing. If you take the skin next to it, the window is in fact away, even though they wanted to upgrade.
Power:
As mentioned at the beginning, I was initially disappointed to read only one R4 booting in UEFI and no R5. But this disappointment relatively quickly disappeared. Okay, a laptop can not compare it to a desktop computer itself. But I must say that I would have for 350 purchase price expected much less. Who can accept sacrificing image quality, will have no problem to III may also from time to time games like Sims 3, Need for Speed Shift or Assassin's Creed play smoothly. Only the latter runs a little gruff, but overwhelming graphics performance still remains, especially in such a small-sized graphic equipment.
Here without the power consumption as their supplies from competitors, or older (= 1-2 years) conventional AMD CPUs the APU (= CPU with integrated graphics processing unit) boosts to 2.4 GHz, has so neat fire or computing power, the increase infinity! In particular, there are neat performance because it is 4 real, physically real cores and not to disasters such as the Intel virtualization technology, you can experience shows occur in the garbage. That is not to say Intel is bad or useless, but you have to sugarcoat anything also. AMD builds such nonsense with virtual cores, too, is clearly exceeded by far. In the desktop APU prances about 1 GHz and 4% occupancy. The nice thing is that the AES Encryption full of the system in this case TrueCrypt (Windows) or Luks (Kubuntu) performance ever missed a damper. The integrated into the APU AES module relieves the processors in every possible operating position of complete cryptographic tasks.
The advantage here is the hybrid hard drive. Each boot Windows noticeably (dhzT to seconds) was faster. A nice feature that you will notice in applications frequently used in their start times. Unfortunately, the same Windows updates from this bonus again, but what is at Microsoft and not the laptop. Problems with the Multiboot never existed, because Kubuntu was increasingly faster. The plate has its limits when it comes to speed, that's for sure, but you know it already clear. The plate is apparently enough programmed intelligent to manage multiple systems depending on frequency of use can.
If the environment is quiet, you can hear the squeak plate however clear what I previously had never. A little disconcerting, but you can only insist on the statement well: "This belongs to". The endurance test is to show (it was only just a few weeks), if it is, or this is a cheap or faulty production.
Battery:
The term is extremely dependent on the display brightness. At very low settings the term varies in desktop mode between 5 and 6.5 hours at medium brightness are but only 3.5 to 4. At least under Windows. Under Linux, as I said after late stetens 2h Feierabend. About Lenovo tools can possibly get even more out, but I have not tried, but only installs the drivers that Windows could not download completely automatically. Playing the battery life is not interested, there is also at a 3000 gaming notebook after 1-2h conclusion. 45 minutes more you get, after all, in airplane mode to so without WLAN and Bluetooth.
Although I must say here clearly that the Bluetooth does not work, what is also definitely on the laptop because the connectivity for example from the same phone for tablet (also Lenovo) is given properly, but not from phone to laptop or from laptop to tablet. Possibly the drivers from the Lenovo Web site is incomplete, after installing the Lenovo-side was in the device manager still an unknown device available. This is possibly related, but I have not checked, because I do not too often need Bluetooth.
What's missing:
The weight of the device is not to be underestimated. The shoulder bag is extremely difficult when the almost 3kg heavy laptop is inside. Should carry with it longer you there along with books and folders so do not, the difference is considerable and rather disturbing for me. In defense of the unit, however, you have to add that a certain weight is mandatory in a touch system, so that it can not wobble or even tip over.
The speakers are impressive. You can hear stereo out clearly what I had been at laptops than ever before. Also a problem for other models: the volume. In previous laptops these were all extremely easy to drown, the HP model that had overcooked my legs, even with a commercially available smartphone. Here it is different, the volume is relatively extreme and exceeds by less than 50% have other laptops. In my opinion, very positive, even if the sound thus did not get better, so (for laptops usual) sounds tinny.
What Lenovo wants the OneRecovery-nonsense in the description, is me undecided. There is only one single button, to activate and deactivate. OneRecovery a button as we know him, if necessary, there is not. There is also no additional partition on the disk, over which one could restore the OS. Perhaps the appropriate Lenovo software can set up everything that I have not even tested (because never used).
The button for the DVD drive is a little bitchy. You have to press (usual one is inside) in order to open the drive up. Also you have to push a little harder. Initially, I still thought it could not be opened. But How, already it is no longer a problem.
The Webcam I have not tested. This is something I never need, is thus actually only and taped for me Deko in doubt anyway. For this I can say nothing.
Conclusion:
To finally get to the point after this endless monologue, I must clearly say that the laptop is an absolute buy recommendation in my opinion, if only because of innovative, high-precision operation via mouse pad and touch display. And even if the battery is easily an average day at the university. To me he has never gone out. Who wants to relax sometimes, can even watch a movie or play a game without problems.
For the office, the university or the average daily use with a low-cost entry-level model, the thing is to use absolutely! For such a low price you get a lot of unusual power and features. When calculating but not forget the OS!
