After much deliberation and Browse I bought the device when electric market with the planet, after successful price negotiations, for a little less than the advertised 499 here! Many features are struck me after the first time you turn because the demo that can be found in the market always has something "spartan".
The laptop comes in a rather unspectacular cardboard therefore, which protects the laptop sufficiently. Positive I noticed that Lenovo was not the default hard Styrofoam, what one finds often, but a kind of foam that simply protects the goods much better and more frequently used here. Top! Furthermore, there is a power supply, which is surprisingly small, a power cable and a Bedinungsanleitung in scope.
Overall, the laptop makes a very high-quality impression, especially the high weight (3.2kg) strengthened again this feeling, although that might be a little difficult, of course, for people who constantly carry their laptop with them. The laptop is outside of a rubberized plastic, what valuable and well crafted feels and no sharp edges aufweißt. The keyboard pad is made of a relatively thick aluminum plate, which improves the quality of the device enhances again. Overall, the processing at a high level, only the actual keyboard can be pressed a little, but I can overlook about it. The trackpad is slightly oriented to the left, until now I had never problems that I have come in touch accidentally turn, the keys have a good feedback! Located at terminals located on the right side of the power button, the drive (a DVD - burner), and two USB 2.0 ports. On the left side we find a Kensington - lock, the connector for the power supply, the outlet for the heat sink, a HDMI - connection, an Ethernet - port, a USB 3.0 - port and a headphone jack, so to I / O is the Lenovo properly equipped. Since the notebook has among other things a touch screen, you can repurpose these into a kind of tablet into which you can rotate the screen by 300 ° +, just look for the movies, I found this feature but very useful. Furthermore you will find in the upper part of the screen the 720p HD webcam, with stereo - is equipped microphones, but unfortunately rushes in good daylight and below-average photos created. The boxes are located on the bottom, but are a bit scratchy and unclear even at medium volume and thus is not really for parties or watching movies because one ought to rely more on earphones or headphones.
Now we come to the actual performance of the notebook. The notebook comes with a i3 - 4010U of Haswell - generation (4th generation) from Intel and is thus on the cutting edge of technology. This is a dual - core CPU clocked at 1.7GHz. Thanks to the Intel Hyper Threading - technology this processor unit but simulates two additional cores and can thus distribute processor-intensive tasks such as editing photos or games evenly, thereby increasing the performance! Another advantage is that this notebook M.2, the latest generation of SATA - interface has on board and thus can be of enlargement of the store and due to the Flash - modules can greatly enhance the performance - based on these M.2! Where we are already in memory, the notebook comes with 4GB of memory, which is clocked at 1600MHz. It is possible to use up to 16GB (2x 8GB SO-DIMM) memory with 1600MHz with this notebook. For mass storage is a 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue HDD in the system, so it's taken care of (in my case) for adequate storage, but again, any conventional 2.5 "mechanical hard drive (available up to 2TB) or for an extra performance boost a SSD be mounted with up to 1TB storage, which makes the system properly legs as graphics unit of the laptop uses the processor's graphics processor Intel HD 4400, which is more than sufficient for media playback and Internet, and Office -.. duties Even older games should run on but we must here do not expect satisfactory results Overall, the actual computing power of the laptop is more than enough for everyday tasks, only the hard disk brakes a being too, and the long boot times, just as users of a SSD in my head - PC, go one then personally something on the pointer, but you can now buy an SSD for less than 60 to the system significantly accelerate. Otherwise, I have to touch any stuttering, even when switching from laptop - noted operation. In the field of temperature and volume, I was pleasantly surprised! HWMonitor shows me only 43 ° C (26.4 ° C room temperature) during video playback. This is of course the low TDP of the processor of 15W due to, but also the more than adequate cooling! The laptop works completely silent and stay cool! Even the keyboard and the armrest heats not very strong on, great!
Now we come to the display! The built here display is a 15.6 "IPS - LCD panel with an effective resolution of 1366x768 which is sufficient to Scripture and videos may provide sufficiently sharp to, the colors are sufficiently saturated, and thanks to the IPS panel, the colors are always true to color if you are not 100% looking straight at the screen, as mentioned, the notebook is also equipped with a touch screen, which accurately enough, but not 100% - ig accurately works for navigating through the Explorer this functionality is accurate enough, but when. comes to recognize gestures, sometimes doing something difficult. But all in all, the display is more than adequate.
Next we come to the battery. Since this is my first notebook, I can unfortunately not draw any comparisons to other devices, but I am of the opinion that the battery lasts long enough! Depending on what you did before, you can easily watch a two hours blockbuster on the notebook and still good 15 - have 20% remaining battery life, so the battery lasts a good 2 to 3 hours - if you do something more intense, up to 4 hours when surfing the Internet or only to E - Mails writes. Okay so far and enough!
The laptop is already shipped with Windows 8.1, which must be pre-installed and set up only after the first start. I, as an iron fan of Windows 7, was a bit skeptical about how well I would cope with Windows 8.1, because I have Windows 8 abhors abysmally. After you install Classic Start and a few hours I am, however, quite quickly settled! Lenovo provides the notebook with some of bloatware (pre-installed software for promotional purposes) of which can be but all either remove (McAfee and programs of Magix) or remove it from the Startup let (Lenovo Recommendations, etc.), so I'm not going great as negative aspect chalk!
In summary it can be said that each of a relatively cheap, well made and quite potent Multimedia - Notebook investigated should look at this notebook. For this price I have so far found no comparable functionality and it should anyone who wants to edit not necessarily movies or RAW photos or play, satisfy and with some small modification can be even more potential from the notebook to tease out what to me a perfect entry - notebook makes! 5 Stars! :)
