Lenovo IdeaPad Z series has introduced 13-inch, 14 inch and 15-inch products, and 13-inch products gradually fire up. Summing up, with the notebook improvements in technology, the high-performance processor and graphics card in smaller laptop become possible, so does the chipset. Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 is a 13 inch laptop, and we will have a review on it.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 shell design

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 LOGO on left side of shell

In positioning, Z series is higher than G series and less than the Y series. We can see that Lenovo IdeaPad Z360′s design is low profile, its top cover design is very simple, it still uses the traditional Imprint technology. And there is no any decoration except LOGO on the shell.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 13-inch screen

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 utilizes a 13-inch glossy screen; its standard resolution is 1366 x 768 pixels. The reason why more and more friends like 13-inch notebook is that because consumer demand for portable notebook is increasing.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 camera on the top of the screen

IdeaPad Z360 sunken screen shaft

The screen shaft of Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 can be said very good, we can easily open the screen with one hand and the base will not be jumped during we open it.

IdeaPad Z360 front side status lights

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 status lights were placed in front of the laptop, users can easily see them when using the notebook. From left to right, there is the power light, charge light, hard disk light and wireless network card light.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 keyboard design is very delicate. The overall silver base with black keys design gives a feeling of luxury.

Lenovo Z360 overall keyboard design

Above the keyboard, it is designed touch shortcut keys, they can help users better control system. In addition, there is a small red button next to the power button, in fact it is one key recovery button. To prevent accidental encounter it, this button is designed for very small, the user only through the toothpick or pin can start it.

Lenovo Z360 left and right speakers

Lenovo has been well known for the high-touch keyboard, and IdeaPad Z360 keyboard texture is very good. if you still remember ThinkPad Edge Series notebooks, its keyboard is very similar to the design of IdeaPad Z360 keyboard. Wider Cap, the surface curvature is greater, so that users have to make a better use of experience.

IdeaPad Z360 New Cap Design

The indicators are around the IdeaPad Z360 keyboard

Metal wiredrawing processing of the IdeaPad Z36 touchpad and palmrest

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 palm rest is with metal wiredrawing processing, and the touchpad surface is designed with many prominent dots so that user’s fingers will be more comfortable when sliding on it. In addition, the two touchpad buttons are very soft, press them more comfortable.

There is VGA, HDMI, USB port, and E-SATA on the left side of Lenovo IdeaPad Z360. On the right of Lenovo IdeaPad Z360, it is equipped with a USB port, a pair of audio interfaces, and a DVD burner. We need to know that the left E-SATA interface is also compatible with USB port, and the space between two USB ports is relatively large, you can also insert the two devices.

Left interfaces on Lenovo IdeaPad Z360

Right interfaces on Lenovo IdeaPad Z360

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 interfaces are very complete. In addition, Lenovo IdeaPad Z360′s interface layout is reasonable, right and left side is equipped with USB port, and heat vents are arranged near to screen; minimize the hot air impact of user’s fingers.

IdeaPad Z360’s 48Wh lithium ion battery

IdeaPad Z360 + battery weight

IdeaPad Z360 + battery + adapter weight

By weighing test, we can see IdeaPad Z360 with the battery is about 2kg. Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 product is not a light laptop, so weight is not its advantages.

IdeaPad Z360 comes with pre-installed 32-bit Windows 7 Home Basic operating system, you can give full play to the actual performance of 2GB DDR3 memory.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 is equipped with 13.3-inch LED display, powered by Intel Core i3-350M processor, Intel HM55 chipset, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 500G hard drive and DVD burner, Intel GMA HD and NVIDIA Geforce 310M, supports NVIDIA and OPTIMUS dual graphics card automatically switching.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 I3-350M Processor Core various parameters

3DMark Vantage Graphics performance test results

NVIDIA Geforce 310M graphics card on IdeaPad Z360 got 5426 GPU score tested by 3DMark Vantage, while with the Core i3-350M, the total score is E5645.

PCMark Vantage Comprehensive Performance Assessment

After an hour of testing, Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 got a total score of 4032 points on PCMark Vantage test. Although it can not be compared with some gaming laptops,  IdeaPad Z360 application can meet the average family needs.

In the system under low load conditions, EVEREST sensor indicates Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 processor temperature is 46 ℃ (core 1 is 43 ℃ / Core 2 is 40 ℃), integrated graphics is about 47 ℃, hard disk is about 44 ℃ which has no significant difference from most 14 inch laptops.

System fully loaded, IdeaPad Z360 bottom side temperature

When the system is fully loaded, the highest temperature is near to heat vents for 42 ℃, slightly higher than human body temperature, so dose the bottom side temperature. It is mainly because CPU and GPU b and heat vents.

CPU / GPU are on the left on IdeaPad Z360

Overall, Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 keyboard and palmrest area temperature performed well; in addition, the internal structure is good and ensures the efficiency of heat emission. There was no obvious overheating, and which is more important to user experience.

Plain, simple shell design and the carefully crafted details impress us. We also saw the ThinkPad design elements on Z360- chiclet-style keyboard. So Lenovo IdeaPad Z36 is a portable, simple, easy to use laptop.

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