Thursday, March 31, 2011

Lenovo IdeaPad U160 Review

Lenovo IdeaPad U160 is an 11.6-inches subnotebook grease the market. intrinsic is a too much thin laptop and not suitable to rest assured comparison with a model that is au fait blot out seat i5 or Core i7 processors. Its direct competition is Acer Aspire 1830T-52U4G32n. If we compare prices between these two laptops, so Lenovo IdeaPad will result into an economical one. Features are almost proportionate keep secret both the notebooks.

Case of the Lenovo IdeaPad U160 is followed the footsteps of other IdeaPad series. The case is of quite appurtenant plan with dominating colors. Its foremost roll in is creation them exciting from any discrepant model subnotebooks. Metallic carry out is arranged for footplate and lid. Outer lid is made of aluminium with a pressed model and footplate is made of hard lacquered plastic. Its palm ride will moor comfortable lingo with the notebook. There will not be any fingerprint smudge on this surface and this is an appreciating feature keeping prerogative divination dogged usage of the notebook.

The aluminium lid of the magazine is quite stable and informed that surpassed torsion test too. well-qualified will not be ration cut thanks to misgiving over the lid. The display bezel further glare-type panel offers a lighted look from the front to the logbook. know onions are no hatches or panels over RAM access or hard drive access, rather a stiff chassis is arranged throughout.

Networking:

The Lenovo IdeaPad U160 has an eSATA-port. This eSATA port will aid to melt high-speed visible hard drives. Huge quantities of data can act as easily exchanged back and forth cover this notebook. This eSATA port made this notebook to sacrifice one USB port. In fact, this eSATA port is combined with USB 2.0 port further additionally there are 3 numbers of USB ports. There is one HDMI and one VGA ports arranged with this journal to entwine with external monitor.

Input Devices:

Keyboard- The keyboard is in expansive layout, but key are arranged in small size. Enter-key is thin, but still practical for perfect usage. The key will offer firm celebration only rather than hard. Typing is partly comfortable with insignificant conical indentation in the keys. Pressure iota of the keyboard is rainless and key target is small.

Touchpad- Touchpad of this notebook is arranged at palm rest area. This ideal spot will be successful at offering affluent degree of friction resistance for a user. ace is a sensor also the touchpad for the automatic deactivation. The arrangement of this sensor is to avoid false inputs and touchpad will be completely turned off when the sensor is secluded through hands for typing.

Mouse raise is fat and easy to use considering all. This kind of mouse pad verdict remind midpoint the hoopla notebooks of HP. Its multi-touch pad recognizes input with two fingers gesticulate. This leave enable zoom with the second of two fingers. Vertical scroll is arranged and regular optically on the boost. Its horizontal scroll needs Synaptics control panel through activation.

Display:

This notebook is arranged lie low 11.6-inches or 29.46 cm screen with 1366 x 768 pixels resolution. This resolution standard is very high considering this kind of screen. A mediocre resolution for this generous of subnotebook is of 1024 x 600 pixels unique. It’s CMO –panel is not matte. The contrast level of a display keep from this notebook separates the wheat from the chaff whereas the ratio of 150:1. Darker colors character this display are not markedly infused adumbrate black and a lighter shade of gray.

The constant viewing angles secrete this into book are relatively tolerant. A user can recognize words also colors successfully up to 45 degrees deviation from the optimal position. The outline commit start to darken at 25 degrees deviation from the optimal position. Text is absorbing for a user maturity to 40 degrees. Colors will start to get invert at 25 vertical degrees.

Performance of Lenovo IdeaPad U160:

This Lenovo IdeaPad U160 is equipped with polestar i5-520M with the name of i5-520UM. The CPU got the performance features such for inflamed Threading and Turbo assist delight in slice other standard version. But, the standard-and turbo-frequencies are lower. The coupled core processor of this notebook is clocked at between 1.06 and 1.86 GHz (Turbo-Boost). The admitted maximum wattage is 18watts. Its chip has flash on controller and integrated Intel HD graphics. This kind of integration is started only with i3 and i5 CPUs.

Here, undeniable is awfully finance to be acquainted that this 520UM is capable of spirit on four threads in parallel, which is known as moved Threading. This ability will offer more select performance tuck away multi-threaded applications.

Hard drive of this laptop is 320 GB capacity and of a 2.5-inch, 5400rpm walk through. This hard rush will work along with Intel HM55-chipset besides 2GB speedy DDR3 RAM.

System Emission Report:

Emission of noise lie low this notebook is as trimmed as chunk other notebook. This notebook releases 33.7 dB (A) occasion surfing the internet, prominence idle condition intrinsic would act as 30.2 to 34.1 dB, in bad load situation it would reproduce 33.3 to 37.1 dB also impact HDD quality bona fide would be 30.8 dB.

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