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Lenovo IdeaPad U150 Reviews


The Lenovo IdeaPad U150 is a 11-inch laptop equipped with the latest Intel CULV for extreme battery life combined with an HDMI output for mobile entertainment. Moreover, this netbook packs enough performance for everyday activities is small enough to be his constant companion PC. If you spend your next $ 750 in this amazing little book? Read on to find out.


Planning and construction

Lenovo is known for the ThinkPad line of business that the company inherited from IBM, but the new range of IdeaPad consumer-oriented laptop is capable of generating some noise with a unique design and a moderate price. The Lenovo IdeaPad U150 is to continue this trend by offering a beautiful 11-inch laptop that competes with the Dell Inspiron Mini 11z and 311 HP. Like most 11-inch notebooks on the market, the U150 walks the fine line between a laptop and a notebook equipped with Intel Atom-based. The U150 is bigger and more powerful than the typical $ 400 Netbooks, but lacks impressive features and the size of a laptop with a Core 2 Duo high level of $ 650 - $ 900 price range. That said, the U150 definitely offers an attractive design with a combination of matte black, glossy black and shiny silver plastic.


The lid of the U150 has the same total width of weaving textures seen in the IdeaPad U350 is a nice addition and alternative to the covers of glossy seen in most dell inspiron 1545 battery 11 inches. The build quality is acceptable with less than half the solid plot, but the screen cover with plastic and metal panel thin plastic texture palmrests suffer a little more flexibility "that would like to see in laptops costing more than $ 600. Of course, most consumers probably will not realize the flexibility in the plastic on the outside unless you apply significant pressure palmrests or screen, but the 11-inch laptops are be completed within the bags back with heavy textbooks. .. Therefore, I would like the U150 to be a bit 'stronger. On the other hand, cover the carpet with texture (again, a combination of thin metal and plastic) are not only beautiful, but hidden abuse newspaper strips through the merger in the printed pattern. He does a good job hiding smudges and fingerprints compared to notebooks with the glossy plastic exterior. The IdeaPad U150 will probably be fairly typical user abuse ... but you might want to try to stand on this laptop.


Those who like to upgrade their laptops to spare parts (more RAM, a new hard drive, or SSD, or a wireless card again) is the U150 is extremely easy to update. Panel allows access to the hard drive and RAM, while a second panel allows access to the wireless card slot and Mini PCI-E. Not Found "void the warranty if removed" stickers explicitly within the notebook, but no stickers Lenovo covers the edges of RAM, Wi-Fi card and saw that the radiator can be used to indicate tampering.



Screen and speakers

The 11.6 "screen on the U150 was average, with color and contrast, viewing angles, but correct most thin and light notebooks with a clear surface. They are of lower quality TN panels, but this view makes little "pastel" colors on our test image. For standard tasks like web browsing or writing documents, you do not really notice the color change, but when viewing photos or watching a movie dull dark colors are "a bit distracted. vertical viewing angles are 10 degrees forward or backward when the colors start to show visible changes. Horizontal viewing angles are slightly better than the colors are essentially unchanged, except for very steep angles. The backlight works very well under the lights of the office, but the screen is not strong enough to overcome the reflections on the nature bright screen in direct sunlight.

The stereo speakers are fine for listening to streaming radio, or the occasional TV series, but the lack of good bass. Since the speakers are in front of the macbook pro battery audio output tends to blow when you use your laptop as a "portable". However, if the U150 is on the desktop and the sound bounces off the bench surface and the user. However, headphones are a much better solution to really enjoy music and movies from this laptop, thanks to low and low mid-range speakers. Another alternative is to use the HDMI output to transmit digital audio to a home theater system.


Keyboard and touchpad

Nearly full-size keyboard is very good at writing and is almost as good as can be expected on a laptop with a 11-inch frame. The spacebar is a "little small and the tilde key has been reduced in size, but all the keys feel as if they were the size it should be. The framers of our office is also shared by those who prefer the" style chiclet "keyboards that provide additional space between the keys and traditional keyboards, such as providing bigger keys. Frankly, I prefer the keyboard is largely a matter of personal taste, so be aware that there are 11-inch laptop with a traditional keyboard and notebook computers with Chiclet / island keys. The keyboard is quite stable and free from any further decline in heavy writing. Each button emits a slight "click-clack" when pressed and not too frightening for the typing class. Tortilleria key or key travel is minimal and each node is connected to the scissor mechanism below. In short, the keyboard of the U150 is one of the best I've seen in a 11-inch laptop.


The dell latitude d630 battery has a Synaptics touchpad is quite large and one of the most beautiful keyboard I've ever seen on a laptop of 11 inches. The texture of the plastic surface is a little rough, and provides good traction without a hard slide your finger across the surface. Speed and accuracy are great with the default settings and did not notice any lag in our tests cursor. Refresh rate of the touch screen is very good and avoids any "stuttering", as we saw recently in a few Synaptics touchpad. The acceleration of each axis is sufficiently sensitive and ensures that the movement of the cursor on the screen corresponds to the movement of your finger on the trackpad (touchpad unlike the Dell Inspiron 11z). The touchpad buttons are fantastic with a perfect deep, slowly stretches the action "click" when pressed.



Ports and Features

Port selection is surprisingly good on the IdeaPad U150. You get VGA and HDMI, Gigabit LAN, audio in / out and an SDHC card slot and three USB ports (two standard ports and a combo USB / eSATA). The eSATA port lets you use an external hard drive much faster on this laptop, and are pleased that Lenovo has used a combo USB / eSATA for customers who need to not use a USB and eSATA.

The front mount has a spring SDHC, and contrary to the card slot in most U350, the card slot allows the cable. When you insert a full-size SDHC slot the card is not exceeded. Do not expect to see a built-in optical drive on this laptop, so if you plan to reinstall the operating system or a DVD player, which includes a USB external optical. The keys of the media are limited to a mute button and a shortcut button to the room of Lenovo recovery "OneKey" software used to create a backup or recovery of a system failure.


Performance and benchmarks

System performance with Intel SU7300 CULV is very reasonable for everyday tasks like browsing the Internet, checking email, editing Microsoft Office documents, or editing, but basic. That said, we'd like to see SU7300, 1.73 GHz Lenovo overclock the same way and Alienware, ASUS has done with some of their latest laptops. Most programs take much longer to load or access to information faster Core 2 Duo SU7300, but offers the advantage of longer battery life compared to larger more powerful processors. Our test configuration has 4 GB of memory and a 320 GB hard drive fast enough, so this laptop is not slow like most netbooks based on Intel's Atom and packs enough performance to the user via PC.

HD Video Playback not reasonably well with the lenovo t400 battery integrated HDMI port lets you connect your laptop to your HDTV. That said, the U150 does not suffer from lag when we went to see the HD video, while multitasking with an Internet browser and Microsoft Office. As mentioned above, if the system includes a version of overclocking dual core processor SU7300, and the gap can not be a problem.

That said, here's a quick look at synthetic benchmarks so you can see how the IdeaPad U150 performs compared to other phones.


Heat and noise

While most of the external surfaces of the IdeaPad U150 has remained within the normal range, we find a hotspot near the system RAM in our review unit. While the temperature was not uncomfortable for short periods of use at the bottom of the laptop can be a bit 'too hot for some users, if you keep knees for over an hour to an hour. Noise levels were average for a machine this size, but the fan can get on your nerves if you're used to a laptop in complete silence. The U150 has a tendency to keep the fan running all the time, or if it is to maintain low temperatures to keep the processor within a certain temperature range. Fan noise was only slightly stronger than the noise level of a hard drive, but if you really like this course, far from a hair dryer in the background.


Battery

The battery life with 6 cell battery is good enough, and SU7300. In our testing, with screen brightness 70%, 7 Windows power profile to 'balanced', and the wireless system was active for 5 hours and 22 minutes before going into standby mode. Energy consumption during the test ranged from 9 to 10 watts. You can probably get more than six hours of battery life on this laptop, if you lower the brightness to 30% or less and turn off when not online wirelessly.


Conclusion

The Lenovo IdeaPad U150 offers a great balance between portability and performance with a combined value sufficient to satisfy most consumers. Compared with the same 11-inch ultraportable like the dell latitude e6400 battery, the U150 has a better keyboard and touchpad a modest price increase. On the other hand, the IdeaPad U150 looks a little "power and face the new Alienware M11x, which offers a more powerful graphics, a backlit keyboard, the addition of DisplayPort and a better quality of construction of approximately the same price.

In short: If you need an alternative based netbook IdeaPad U150 HDMI and eSATA probably also in your shopping list.

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