Lenovo IdeaPad U450 laptop review May 13, 2010

Lenovo IdeaPad U450 laptop screen resolution is 1366×768. Lenovo IdeaPad U450 also equiop with a camera at the top of screen, with Lenovo unique face recognition software, users can access the operating system through the portrait.

Lenovo IdeaPad U450 uses the sunken screen axis, that means Lenovo IdeaPad U450 will not have any interfaces.

Lenovo IdeaPad U450 uses black design except for roof that making the overall style looks steady.

Lenovo IdeaPad U450 uses the classic high-touch keyboard deisgn, keycap surface curvature is very large ca better fit user’s fingers. In addition, Lenovo IdeaPad U450 keyboard rebound is very sensitive, the hand feel is really good.

Lenovo IdeaPad U450 equips with a series of shortcut keys in keyboard, are very practical. Lenovo IdeaPad U450 also has printed with plaid at the top of keyboard.

Although Lenovo IdeaPad U450 is a thin and light notebook, the interfaces are quite complete. Lenovo IdeaPad U450 is not configured drive, so you can only uses external drive.

There is a switch button in the right of Lenovo IdeaPad U450, it is a graphics card switch button. UMA is integrated graphics, DIS is independent graphics card, users can adjust the video card works according to actual needs.

Lenovo IdeaPad U450 lables in the right palm rest showing its configuration. Users can have a better experience.

We can see Lenovo IdeaPad U450 reinforcement around the hard disk by simple disassembly which can better protect the hard disk. In addition, Lenovo IdeaPad U450 comes with two memory slots, you can upgrade memory if necessary.

Although most of Lenovo IdeaPad U450 use engineering plastics manufacturing, while memory and hard drive use metal baffle material, which will make internal components can be protected better.

Lenovo IdeaPad U450 uses dual-core SU7300 processor, 250GB hard drive and 2GB memory.

Intel Core 2 SU7300 processor with dual-core and both has energy efficiency and performance, the majority of applications can deal with well.






PCMark05 results are balso very balanced. This machine comes with a 250GB Western Digital hard drive, through the HD Tune test, we can see the average read speed is 53.1MB / s, performance is quite satisfactory.



Lenovo IdeaPad U450 equips with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics card, this is a low-end ATI graphics card, the memory interface is only 64bit. I believe Lenovo IdeaPad U450 uses this card is for watching high-definition video but playing games.

ATI products have a very good high-definition hardware decoding technology, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 in the 3D image operations is not very powerful, but its ability to play high-definition is good. After Lenovo IdeaPad U450 running Furmark software 30 minutes, we use the thermal device to have a test. We
can see the maximum temperature of keyboard surface is 44.9 ℃, the highest body temperature of the bottom is 50.3 ℃.

Summary
Lenovo IdeaPad U450 is really a good laptop you worth to choose.

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