Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 Review January 31, 2010
When the information of Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 leaked out, many people are doubtful about it. Many ThinkPad fans can not accept that the black ThinkPad laptop has changed so much. But in fact, Lenovo are courage to people’s ideas about ThinkPad. And it will be a mystery whether new Lenovo ThinkPad Edge laptop will succeed or not. Now we have a look for this ThinkPad Edge 13.
On Lenovo‘s official website, the Thinkpad Edge’s specification is described as “Powerful Dual Core Processor “, which is because that the Thinkpad Edge has the most complex hardware configuration. The Thinkpad Edge 15 comes with a AMD Turion, Athlon platform, which is just with the price of 549 dollars, while the ThinkPad Edge 13 comes with the CULV Core 2 Duo SU7300 1.3GHz processor with GS45 chipset with the price of more than 800 dollars.
Besides the differences of their specifications, we will also be dazzled about Thinkpad Edge 13’s specification of memory, hard disk. As to the low-end AMD platform, it is equipped with a 2GB DDR2 memory and 160GB hard drive; while the high-end Intel platform, it is handled by a 2 ~ 4GB DDR3 memory and a 500GB hard drive. So when you want to buy a ThinkPad Edge 13 laptop, you should be more careful as the specifications of ThinkPad Edge 13 are so different.
In order to meet the requirement of home entertainment users, Edge 13 comes with a 13 inches glossy screen with 16:9 ratio and has a 1366×768 resolution. It makes the ThinkPad Edge 13 becomes a collector of fingerprints. It is worth mentioning that Thinkpad Edge 13’s screen can do 180-degree opening and closing. While there are no much advantages of ThinkPad Edge 13 according to its weight and thickness. The Edge 13′s dimensions are slightly thicker at 12.9-by-9-by-1.1 inches (HWD).
If you do not open the Thinkpad Edge 13, you may assume it as the latest model of Ideapad laptop. Once you open the Edge 13, the traditional Thinkpad Trackpoint, multi-touch Trackpad, and red and blue lines disappeared from the previous generations all proved that ThinkPad Edge 13 is a member of ThinkPad laptops.
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 adopts the island-style layout keyboard. The keys are isolated from one other, but they’re large enough so that it doesn’t feel like typing on little squares. Each key cap is curved and raised high enough so that the ThinkPad “feeling” is still there, once you get past the new look.
As ThinkPad Edge 13 is handled by the Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor and 4GB of memory, so the performance is just at the middle line.
The battery life must catch your eyes, Lenovo Edge 13 comes with a standard 6-cell Li-ion battery and the officials state that the battery will provide 7.8 hours. In our battery life test, Lenovo Edge 13 is equipped with medium brightness, and we turn off the Bluetooth, and the laptop refreshes the page Firefox every 30 seconds. At this circumstance, the battery life is up to 5 hours and 20 minutes.
Conclusion: in the mare or lose the halter
When the ThinkPad is taken over by Lenovo, it is a most fatal problem about how to keep the tradition of ThinkPad while there are some breakthroughs at the same time. From the Thinkpad SL to the Thinkpad Edge, Lenovo ThinkPad becomes more and more mature, while every coin has two sides, do most people will be fond of them, the answer might be negative. But the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E30 is much better than Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13.
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