Lenovo IdeaPad V460 laptop Review April 14, 2010

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 is a new commercial product, especially do a lot of effort in the body texture and fashion sense. Dynamic design and touch corner setting processing make Lenovo IdeaPad V460 business sense and fashion sense has been well reflected.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 screen is made of ultra-thin LED backlight panel, and further reducing the cap thickness. Lenovo IdeaPad V460 edge greater slope inclination of the fuselage which makes the look more slim.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 has a major breakthrough in roof material selection and technologies. Lenovo IdeaPad V460 cover uses matel wire drawing to avoiding easy to leave fingerprints.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 lifted the subwoofer at the buttom of the fuselage, and thermal windows is very special.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 touchpad is more delicacy, upgrade in key process and touchpad.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 has fingerprint reader in right palm rest. We can know Lenovo IdeaPad V460 features through the labels in left palm rest.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 has a new design in interface layout, retains the HDMI interface. Lenovo IdeaPad V460 provides security keyhole, VGA port, HDMI interface, RJ-45 Ethernet ports, two USB 2.0 ports, headphone and microphone jack in the left side .

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 equips with ExpressCard slot burner, a USB 2.0 connector and power jack in the right side. Lenovo IdeaPad V460 moves USB interface to the back right of body back right, this is really a big change.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 has card reader slot, two thernal windows and wireless switches and video cards hot picks switch.

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It is worth mentioning that, as a business laptop,  Lenovo IdeaPad V460 fully takes into account the user requirements, using the integrated graphics and discrete graphics G310M with dual graphics cards, eagerly appropriated by the front body piece, you can switch between significant and independent which enhance the endurance ability of Lenovo IdeaPad V460.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 is equipped with a 6-cell lithium battery 11.1V/48Wh, with dual graphics upgrade for life time to provide a double guarantee.

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By BatteryMark test, we see that as a 14-inch notebook, Lenovo IdeaPad V460 endurance time is reaching 3hours 52minutes in the independent state, such a performance is very commendable.

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In general, the ordinary 14-inch notebook weighing 2.3 kg or more in most cases. Lenovo IdeaPad V460 weighs only 2.195 kg with battery, travel weight of only 2.525 kg,  that thanks in large part to use a lighter aluminum-magnesium alloy.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 uses i5-430M processor, which is the initial frequency for the 2.27GHz, Core frequency acceleration technology can  upgradeto a maximum of 2.53GHz. With Hyper-Threading Technology, it has a very good performance , especially in video processing, image batch, multi-document task processing performance and outstanding in other business.

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Here, we adopted two software wPrime and CINEBENCH R10 respectively to test the speed of its operation and single-core, multi-core state.

We see that i5-430M’s operation speed is no doubt, 32M case is only 19.858 seconds, very excellent.
Through CINEBENCH R10 on the i5-430M single-and multi-core work of the state’s test results, we see that under the multi-core single-core 2714CB and 6391CB score can give you high speed experience. In the face of high-volume video clips, images, batch processing and other office tasks, very easy to deal with, effectively improve the user productivity.

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We also uses Windows 7 Software Experience Index and PCMark Vantage software to do a comprehensive test the performance of Lenovo IdeaPad V460.

From Windows 7 Software Experience Index scores, Lenovo IdeaPad V460 with an average score of 5.5 or above, has a good performance in processor, memory, hard disk. The NVIDIA G310M independence is a good graphics processing power makes Lenovo IdeaPad V460  has a good performance in terms of the game.

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Lenovo IdeaPad V460 got 4822 points in PCMark Vantage in comprehensive performance test. From the scores, Lenovo IdeaPad V460 whole performance is more balanced.

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In 3DMark 06 tests for the NVIDIA GeForce 310M, we are using 1024 × 768 pixels, and Lenovo IdeaPad V460 can achieve the maximum 1366 × 768 pixels for testing. In1024 × 768 pixels, the final score of 4173 points, and in 1366 × 768 pixel test for the 3661 final points. NVIDIA GeForce 310M is an entry-level graphics card. We uses “Street Fighter 4” and “Biochemical 5” two games to visual test the 3DMark software.

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Taking into account the G310M more inadequate performance, we are using the default settings for testing.

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For “Street Fighter 4″ , Lenovo IdeaPad V460 running average frame rate can reach 32 or so games run smoothly; As for the “biochemical 5″, the average 26.4 of the results can only meet the user’s basic entertainment needs.

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Summary:
As a new business laptop with Core’s series processor, Lenovo IdeaPad V460 gets balanced performance. Lenovo IdeaPad V460 has powerful video processing, image batch processing performance, also commendable performance in the business. In addition, Lenovo IdeaPad V460 dual graphics cards not only enhances the entertaining and image processing but also can effectively control the endurance life.

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