At first, many 11-inch notebooks come with Atom processor, a large screen with a low-performance Atom processor result in failure. While, CULV processor makes 11-inch notebooks find the right direction.

Slim + metal

Lenovo IdeaPad U160 is the IdeaPad U150 upgrade version, Lenovo IdeaPad U160 has changed in outlook, and it seems more simple and neat. IdeaPad U160 adopts the design of metal shell and the surface has only square textures, looks very beautiful.
Lenovo IdeaPad U160’s11-inch screen

11-inch screen may be similar to 10 inch screen, but their resolution difference is still very apparent. The resolution of 11 inches to 14 inches screen is 1366 x 768 pixels, while most 10-inch screen is at the resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, and there is no doubt that the high-resolution screen will display more vivid image.

Camera on the top of the IdeaPad U160 screen

IdeaPad U160 left side screen

IdeaPad U160 right side screen

Lenovo IdeaPad U160 comes with a sunken shaft, looks more solid. In addition, on the top of the IdeaPad U160 screen, there is still equipped with camera and microphone.

We can easily open the screen with just one hand.

Lenovo IdeaPad U160′s screen shaft is very good, although the body is slim, we can still easily use one hand to open the screen, it is apparent that screen-axis damping strength is just perfect.

Simple and clean keyboard design

Lenovo IdeaPad U16 features a chiclet-style keyboard; the keyboard is similar to that of ThinkPad Edge series. Pure white makes the keyboard very simple, keyboard texture is quite good, and the space between keys is reasonable, reducing typing mistakes.

IdeaPad U16 whole keyboard layout

IdeaPad U16 status light above the keyboard

Limited by body size, Lenovo U16 doesn’t comes with too many shortcuts above the keyboard except for the power switch and two status indicators.

Lenovo U16’s very small one key recovery button

One key recovery button on Lenovo laptops launched recently is very small. To prevent accidental encounter it, this button is designed for very small, the user only through the toothpick or pin can start it.

Lenovo U16 touchpad design

Lenovo U16 left and right palmrest

Lenovo IdeaPad U160′s touchpad supports multi-touch; users can use two fingers for better control system, the right and left fuselage palmrest are covered with labels, they are also reflects features of the product.

Interface configuration and weight test

IdeaPad U16 is equipped with USB port, network interface, HDMI and audio interface on the right side. There is E-SATA , VGA and Express Card slot on the left side of IdeaPad U16. Overall, this machine’s interface design is quite reasonable, basically to meet the habits of users.

Lenovo IdeaPad U16 right side interfaces

Lenovo IdeaPad U16 left side interfaces

Lenovo IdeaPad U160 status indicators are placed on the front side, even in the case of closing the screen, the user can easily know the laptop status.

IdeaPad U160 front side status indicators

IdeaPad U160 6-cell lithium ion battery

IdeaPad U160 is about 24mm thick, it is thin and light notebook. However, due to adopt with six-cell lithium ion battery, so it is 34mm thick at the rear part.

Weight of IdeaPad U160 laptop with battery

Weight of IdeaPad U160 laptop with battery and adapter

We can know that deaPad U160 with battery weighs 1.39kg, for a 11-inch laptop, the weight control is very good. 11-inch mold with thin body is more suitable for users carry out.

Lenovo IdeaPad U160 utilizes Intel Core i5-520UM processor and equipped with 2GB DDR3 memory and 250GB hard drive. Since IdeaPad U160 is in small size, and there is no built-in optical drive. But IdeaPad U160 is equipped with pre-installed Genuine Windows 7 Home Basic.

CPUID test

When we play the video at 20Mbps on Lenovo IdeaPad U160, the overall playback process is still very smooth and processor utilization is very low, it is indicating that integrated graphics has bear most of the decoding of video.

Lenovo IdeaPad U160 keyboard surface temperature

Lenovo IdeaPad U160 bottom side temperature

Through the thermal imaging tests, we can see the IdeaPad U160 keyboard surface’s maximum temperature is 49.7 ℃, the highest temperature of the bottom is 57.3 ℃. We see know that the heat vents got the highest temperature.

BatteryMark test

IdeaPad U160 comes with a 48Wh lithium ion battery. By BatteryMark test, we can see that Lenovo IdeaPad U160′s battery life is 3 hours and 49 minutes in energy-saving mode, the results can be said is quite good .

Lenovo IdeaPad U160-IFI Specs:

Time released: June 2010
Processor Series: Intel Core i5
Processor mode: Intel Core i5 520UM
Nominal frequency: 1.06GHz
The maximum frequency: 1860MHz Core
3 caches: 3MB
Motherboard Chipset: Intel HM55
Standard memory: 2GB
Memory Type: DDRIII
Hard drive: 250GB
Graphics type: Integrated graphics
Graphics chip: Intel GMA HD (integrated in the processor)
Screen size: 11.6 inches
Screen ratio: 16:9
Screen resolution: 1366 × 768
Battery: 6-battery type lithium batteries
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Basic