Processing and Ergonomics
(+) The processing is for this price range perfectly fine. In zugeklppten state you see the notebook at a price not to;) Only the DVD drive acts klaprig and the button to eject should always be sought.
(-) Glossy display what else there is in the price range unfortunately not.
(+) All 4 USB slots, 2 of which are USB 3.0. And for my needs the positions of the slots are very convenient because I take care of permanent an external USB mouse and two USB speakers.
(-) Complete lack of LED indicators for HDD, WLAN and Bluetooh - you can not see right away whether PC shakes even on HDD and whether the interfaces mentioned above are on or off. For an LED for CapsLock - na Thanks [. Obviously someone is at Lenovo believes that CapsLock is used more often than HDD.
(-) The location of the status LEDs is overall quite unhappy.
(0) The keys are smooth and react without hesitation. Also, the key spacing is comfortable. Only the inner ENTER key has got very small and is struck by me several times instead of the intended Backspace key. Personally, I miss the Hybernate key combination (or there they do?).
(-) The Festplatteneinbauort is not a plug-in slot, but an insert slot. Could not install my old notebook hard drive, as they ca 2mm thicker, so watch out here and previously, if necessary check the dimensions!
(+) Although mentioned several times, I want to say it again -> you come see quickly and tuned by unscrewing of only 2 screws on HDD and RAM.
Functionality HW:
(0) Preliminary note - the unit is mains powered 100%, therefore no statement about battery life possible.
(0) Since I only used an external mouse -> no statement about the usability of the touch pad. Only the function was tested briefly -> goes;)
(0) No wireless utilization -> No statement about their functionality in practice
(-) The DVD drive speeds when reading CDs so hard that you're afraid that it flies apart. Here the thing is also very loud. Reads DVDs at the drive is acoustically no better and no worse than the average of my previous DVD drives.
(+) The operating noise under normal load is pleasantly quiet. To listen to the fan or the hard disk, you have to keep his ears already very close to the housing. Underload yet performed no real test.
(+) One for a notebook truly outstanding sound quality.
(+) A perceived as a very good quality of the web camera
(0) Although the maximum display resolution was not a secret in advance, I have to get used the R61 from FullHD display only 768 pixels in the vertical direction of the N581 me now. By itself seen perfectly fine with such a downgrade as mine (Business Notebook -> Notebook budget) used to anyway. No, the image is not grainy, but it fits much less information on it. As you learn quickly what the whole fullscreen modes of Mozilla and Co are good;)
(0) About HDMI port, the VGA resolution only scaled up to an external monitor you have so effectively the same 768 pixels in the vertical direction, they are interpolated by upscaler only to 1050P.
Software and performance:
(+) External USB HDDs are detected when you boot the PC under AHCI mode, you do not (like eg Thinkpad R61) is more likely to "Compatibility" switch (eg to order Images backupen or restore).
(-) Have the variant ordered with Win8 because it was cheaper and offered directly from Amazon to replace with the intention Win8 after an Image Backup immediately Win7. As soon as I saw that there are backupen over 30Gb, I let remain this idea -> Win7 without prior Backupen.
(0) After all, Lenovo has all of the drivers on a separate partition, and of course named housed.
(-) Win8 has just caused me to at least 3 minutes of use refractive reflexes that only Nutzaktivität that I wanted to perform there, copy the drivers on an external hard drive was. Even this worked very strange - for 1.2GB HDD> HDD said Win8 over 35min for this want to do. I happen to have the LAN cable is disconnected and has decreased the time immediately to below 3 minutes. What's that about? Send Win8 about each file to be copied over the Internet "home" before it is written to the other disk? Is the conduct at Win8 always so? Then "look" I'm already on the time when we will be forced Win7 substituted by "higher" versions, similar to WinXP now (or are expected to get worse, the Oktroyierungspolitik of M-Soft accesses increasingly bold methods).
(-) I'd prefer to install WinXP on it, and went, the use foundered on lack of drivers, and LAN, sound, card reader and chip were somehow made to work. Graphics and Bluetooth - nil. So I had to take Win7. Half of the included driver has since, after all, works immediately, for the other half I tried the Lenovo website. The most power has cost the "Power Management" - there are both drivers failed and there was still an "unknown device" and no OSD. By the tip of the Lenovo forum I loaded the driver for the model N585 downloaded, installed it and then the supplied drivers about it -> go.
(+) Windows7 runs quite fast high, after all, a sign of good overall performance.
(0) from the hibernation hibernation booting takes a relatively very slow, felt at least as long as the cold start. Perhaps this is a Win7 peculiarity.
(+) I can calibrate the screen so that the colors and the contrasts seem even better, so a little optimization potential lies here.
Conclusion: price / performance is in the top unit, the restrictions must be followed precisely before buying! In particular, if the max. possible display resolution is still acceptable ..
