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amazon Lenovo IdeaPad U410 reviews
Design
Thanks to the aluminum frame sections Ruby Red, Lenovo IdeaPad U410 become very prominent. Inherited design Loop of Lenovo, U410 has subtly rounded edges and easy-open lid. Lenovo with chrome badges are arranged at upper right. Ruby Red bezel addition, users can also choose models with gray bark Granite Gray or green Aqua Blue.
The interior of the machine next to trakpad large silver and black keyboard is designed deeper inside makes it reminiscent of the Apple MacBook Pro. The only difference is the backlit power button on the top left corner of the machine.
U410 weighs 1.9 kg, size 34 x 23.6 x 2 cm, equivalent to the Dell Inspiron 14z. Machine lighter a bit than the Acer TimelineU M5. However, compared to Dell or Acer laptop, the U410 does not have an optical drive. HP Envy 4 also has no optical drive but weighs only 1.67 kg.
Keyboard, trackpad
Keyboard AccuType island-style form of U410 has the form of a smiley buttons to respond strongly. However, the phenomenon of subsidence keys when typing and the keys Tab, Caps Lock, Shift (right) size is too small. The keyboard is not backlit.
Synaptics trackpad mirror of the size 10.6 x 7 cm, very spacious for operators to navigate with your finger. Selecting text in Word documents fairly smooth, but, initially, the cursor while typing flounder. Refine palm rejection (in the Control Panel) helps trackpad does not recognize the manipulation from the palms to help you solve this annoying part.
Scrolling and rotate two fingers working smoothly, but finger pinch zoom is not necessarily smooth. Strokes with fingers 3 and 4 also work well. 4 finger sweep to the right trackpad gadget help you open the Lenovo Easy NotePad. Scan to the left to help you change the desktop backgroud with some photos in your Pictures folder or file in the folder that you specify.
Screen
U410 14.1-inch screen of the 1366 x 768 pixels. With a reach of 155 lux brightness, the screen of the U410 less than average brightness of the screen the line of thin and light laptops (204 lux). However, this brightness than competitors like the HP Envy 4 (142 lux). Acer M5 brighter with 185 lux, Dell Inspiron 14z also far surpasses the 254 lux.
Sound
Are arranged immediately before the screen hinge, the U410 stereo speakers for loud but jarring although complemented by Dolby Home Theater v4 software. The guitar in the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” very small and distorted, while the bass is almost “disappeared”. Acer Timeline M5 is a ultrabook 14-inch outstanding sound quality.
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Lenovo U410 14.0-Inch Ultrabook (Graphite Grey): Buy it now
Lenovo U410 14.0-Inch Ultrabook (Graphite Grey): Buy it now
Heat capacity
After 1 video stream in full screen mode for 15 minutes, the temperature measured in the machine’s trackpad area is 23.8 degrees Celsius between G and H keys and lower machine temperatures respectively are 27 and 28,8 degrees C. these temperatures are the machines run very cool.
Webcam
Lenovo’s Ultrabook is equipped with a 1 MP webcam for quite detailed images, bright colors. Along the edges of photos with webcam appearance particles but not much noise. CyberLink YouCam 3 software, the webcam can capture images still menu and usually with a picture resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.
Connector
It has 2 USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, Ethernet, card reader 2-in-1, and 1 power jack. The left side has two USB 2.0 ports, a microphone jack / headphone, 1 button to turn on the One Key Recovery Program.
Performance
IdeaPad U410 for high performance in the tests because the chip is equipped Core i5-3317U (1.7 GHz), 8 GB RAM, HDD 500 GB (5400 rpm) together with SSD cache 32 GB. U410 easy one program stream Luther keypad with 8 open web card on Chrome, IE, Firefox same task scan underground entire system.
Experiment with PCMark07, U410 scores 2,938. Dell Inspiron 14z, Acer Aspire TimelineU M5 and HP Envy 4, the model also uses Core i5-3317U (1.7 GHz), respectively, 2984, 2824 and 3836 points.
Drive HDD 500 GB 5400 rpm which U410 copy one folder of mixed media pieces weighing 4.97 GB took 2 minutes 45 seconds, ie the speed of 30.8 MB/sec. Hard drive Acer M5 and Dell Inspiron 14z the speed respectively is 29.9 and 29.8 MB/sec. HP Envy 4 hard drives for faster speed a little, 31.4 MB/sec.
Thanks to a solid state drive cache 32 GB, restart Windows 7 Home Premium only takes 26 seconds,
Graphics
The machine is equipped with a discrete graphics card Nvidia GeForce 610M with 1 GB VRAM capacity. U410 reached 655 score with 3DMark11 benchmark, beating HP Envy 4 integrated graphics chip (562 points). Dell Inspiron 14z with AMD Radeon HD 7570M graphics card with 1 GB of video memory achieved a very high score, 902 points. Acer Aspire TimelineU M5 used card Nvidia GeForce GT 640M LE (1GB VRAM) for more impressive score, 1,499 points.
Benchmark with “World of Warcraft”, the Lenovo IdeaPad U410 for speed 62 frames/second with autodetect settings and a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. Inspiron 14z reaches 64 fps while the Envy 4 speed only 38 fps.
At the maximum setting, U410 only for speeds of 33 fps. Acer M5 continued to speed impressive 68 fps, while the 14z and the Envy 4 for speed in turn 32 and 19 fps.
Battery life
In tests continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi, the IdeaPad U410’s battery for 6 hours 32 minutes. Dell Inspiron 14z and HP Envy 4 for a battery life respectively 5 hours 35 minutes and 6 hours 18 minutes.
Software
IdeaPad U410 is built more convenient software. One Key Recovery utility helps users backup and rapid recovery system; Power Management System helps managers better … 3rd party applications preinstalled including Adobe Reader X, Google Chrome, Oovoo, Microsoft Office Starter, and Windows Live.
