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Lenovo ThinkPad L512 Review
The Lenovo ThinkPad SL 512 offers a good combination of power and performance for small businesses looking for a portable green.
Green is the new game in town for many manufacturers, and Lenovo has just released a new notebook designed to fill the ecological niche. The new L-series ThinkPad is a carbon copy of the previous series on SL, but with a huge increase in recycled materials. The L series offers up to 30% post-consumer, LED backlit displays and packaging greens, which occupies a space of less than 20%. If you are interested in a new laptop green, check out our full review of the new Lenovo ThinkPad L512.
Construction and Design
Once we got the new ThinkPad L512 of the box, it was like looking for the previous SL-series Fujitsu lifebook t4010 battery. (Insert link here) The two models are identical to the coverage of the texture, the contour of pavement, the design of the port and even the lower panels. Major upgrades are the latest content from recycled plastic and upgraded internal hardware.
The ThinkPad L512 is a consumer to take a robust, business-oriented ThinkPad T Series Unlike the EDGE series is actually a consumer-centric model, the ThinkPad SL series keeping the overall look of the series T with some modifications in design. In particular, the lack of black rubber paint around the frame, which was replaced with glossy black plastic. Some users of this type of finish maintains a clean look and feel from the rubber finish that can disappear with time. Inside, the rest lightly textured black plastic palm trees and keyboard surround, the T is replaced by the smooth plastic finish it, some users say it feels better on your wrist. The other big change is the change of one of the edges outside the square at an angle profile inclined towards the inside of the doors that roll on the side.
Quality of construction falls halfway between the ThinkPad T series and The Edge. The L512 15-inch frame seem to have as much flexibility as the edge 15, which we reviewed last month, but there were more similar in size to the set T. Fujitsu fpcbp136 saver is very good in the L512, which show no bias in the LCD screen with a lot of pressure applied on the lid. The screen has a collapse, but does not appear to have any impact on the screen. The hinges of the screen in our review model keeps the screen very well, without rolling, but the strength does not seem to maintain stronger than the other models. For example, if you were to go around with the screen open, without realizing it, you can change the angle of the screen open while moving.
Access to internal components is easy with three access panels on the underside of the laptop. On the far left, the small sign is used to install a bridge for the fingerprint scanner, the medium used for updates WWAN and a large sign on the right contains the processor, heat sink, memory system and the hard drive. One thing that bothered some was the lack of SIM card slot, WWAN, or soldered to the motherboard. Lenovo L512 L412 and currently as "integrated mobile broadband - upgraded" standard, but what we saw in our review model that can not be the case. The system also offers no wireless antennas indicate that the system pre-wired. If you use integrated WWAN, remember to ask the time of purchase or can be a big disappointment on the road.
Screen and speakers
The L512 features an LED-backlit matte WXGA resolution of 1366x768. Compared to most consumer shows that we have seen, the colors and contrast were slightly below average. For some business models, however, this could be considered normal. We measured the maximum brightness of the screen of 212 cd / m ^ 2, which is more than sufficient for viewing in bright outdoor office and at least partially visible. As long as you are not in direct sunlight, the brightness of the screen matte finish should be high when not in use. Viewing angles are good for about 15 degrees forward or backward until the colors begin to change or reverse. Horizontal viewing angles are better with the Dell latitude d520 battery remains easy to read between 60and 70 degrees.
Performance of the speakers was very normal for a laptop of 15 inches and scored lower than the consumer notebooks. Bass and midrange were very low, but volume levels are fine for a small room. The speakers are on, which is located directly below the screen does not lock when you put your laptop on your lap.
Keyboard and Touchpad
The keyboard is very comfortable to type and very similar to keyboards ThinkPad T Series The design was slightly modified, with a row of function keys instead of the two files can be found in most models. Tactile feedback is excellent keyboard presses, which emit a click when fully active very smooth. Multimedia buttons have been moved above the top line as seen in the T series on the left side of the keyboard. Lenovo is to provide buttons for the speakerphone, microphone mute, volume up and down.
Lenovo seems to have found a Synaptics touchpad on the L512. The above discussion has used the model SL510 ALPS touchpad, so it's a nice upgrade. The touchpad supports multi-touch gestures including tap two fingers, pinch, zoom, rotate, three prizes and three finger fingers movies. Sensitivity is excellent outside the box and once you "break" the surface of the touch screen, cursor movement is very fluid. Click and drag movements were clean, which can be a weakness with some touchpad, lowering his voice too soon or not. The L512 includes a pointing stick for those who are interested in using this form of navigation on the keyboard. We found the interface very attractive, with a minimum of wandering after lifting the stylus. Both groups of touchpad and pointing stick buttons are easy to use and offers excellent response. The keys have a very soft click with a long ball.
Ports and Features
Port selection on the L512 ThinkPad is quite good, with three USB 2.0 ports, eSATA / USB combo port DisplayPort and VGA and LAN. Expansion slots include an SDHC card reader and an ExpressCard/34 slot. Compared with the SL510, HP pavilion dv2000 battery has changed the HDMI connection in favor of DisplayPort. For users of home theater could be a great disappointment that DisplayPort is not using the same standard to transmit digital audio to a stereo or TV.
Performance and benchmarks
Lenovo ThinkPad L series around the latest Intel Core 2010, with the SL-attack to date updated Core 2 Duo processors. With the new chipset is even better than the Intel GMA in HD and give the L512 a rise of almost 50% in the 3D performance of the SL510 with integrated graphics X4500. Lenovo now offers a wide selection of Core i3 and i5 at L412 and L512 14-inch 15-inch set in our model with version 2.26 GHz Core i3-350M. Graphic options on models of 15 inch high definition is limited to only graphics GMA, the L412 comes with 14 inch optional ATI Radeon 5145 graphics card.
The L512 was accelerated in all areas compared to the SL510, including PCMark05, 3DMark06 and wPrime. The system had no problem playing HD movie trailers downloaded from Apple, including 720p and 1080p clips. Flash HD movies on YouTube also played without interruption or delay with the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. Office productivity software is not at all a problem for this laptop, your only limit is a great game, which really is not a consideration for most buyers in this market segment.
The heat and noise
The cooling system on the L512 is capable of maintaining the system under control. Under load, the system fan is audible but not intrusive in a quiet room. Under normal system operating at or near idle, the fan is off or very low speed. We found no significant hot spot in the main "touch" areas such as the palm rest or keyboard, which can be uncomfortable if it gets too hot.
Battery
Compared to the ThinkPad SL510, with a, 52Wh 6-cell Acer aspire 3610 battery, the new L512 has a slightly smaller battery with a capacity of 48Wh. That did not stop the L512 have a better battery life, due in part to improve the efficiency of the chip and display. In our battery test with screen brightness reduced to 70%, wireless enabled and update a web page always 60 seconds and Windows 7 on a balanced profile, the Lenovo L512 stayed for 4 hours and 5 minutes.
Conclusion
The Lenovo L512 offers some advantages to a fresh medium. And "one of the highest percentages of post consumer plastic and a new environmentally friendly packaging. That said, it would have been nice to see the same things that apply to one of the best instead of the ThinkPad SL series L-series based on respect for the environment, offers high performance would be a big draw for many consumers and businesses until the price is right. So it's great that Lenovo was able to increase the use of sustainable materials without significantly increasing the price, the order may be the most important application of the new philosophy throughout its range.
Post je objavljen 15.08.2011. u 05:14 sati.