Review Of Lenovo Ideapad U110 Notebook Computer

By Author: Yasin Resif
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Meet the Lenovo U110 - its sleek, it is small, and this specific one is Red. It will come in black but who wants black when red looks this good? The U110 is Lenovo's launch into the consumer grade 'ultraportable' category, and seemed to have hit a home run with this unit. It's everything an ultraportable ought to be, without having the suit and tie needed color scheme.

Whenever you take out the U110, be prepared for fellow mobile users eyeing your ultraportable U110 with color envy - wishing their stark black or aluminum lid had as a lot character as yours. The matte black magnesium body features the etching style as well - and is really durable. It offered little to no flex and no weak spots when the U110 was transported by holding the base.

The LCD bezel is extremely thin. Even though it is made out of highly resilient alumiunum - I found it really susceptible to flex and puncture stress. It is however, one of several items in which makes this unit so light, so care must be handled when opening/closing and transporting this unit. I would not recommend caryying this, nor moving this laptop computer directly by ...
... the LCD lid alone.

Upon opening the U110 - you will be greeted by a shiny, glossy, piano black finish that surrounds the LCD display, but the glossy functions also continue towards the keyboard where the entire unit functions a mirror like piano black finish - which looks really nice, but attracts fingerprints and dust very quickly.

The U110 features a glossy 11.1' LED backlit display running a native 1368x768 resolution making it a very crisp display for its size- and was had wonderful color output and evenly lit backlighting.

Measuring in at a mere 10.8 inches by 7.7 inches, and a height of only three quarters of an inch, it's a great example of what an ultraportable should, and can look like.

It's a worthy road companion and won't hurt the shoulders when transporting it around in it is incorporated Lenovo notebook sleeve. A single thing we did note about the 7 cell, is that it created the laptop have a little ledge on the rear to carry with, which really served the U110 some good. And another thing on the 4 cell battery - it was a son-of-a-gun in an attempt to remove this from the U110! It had no points to truly grab to help shimmy the battery out of it is location.

The 1.6GHz Intel Core a couple of Duo L7500 runs decently within Windows Vista House Premium- and even though not a top quality CPU seemed snappy enough, especially when this is in that tiny platform. 2GB of DDR2 Ram help the U110 out of course, however, we did discover the difficult drive - at 120GB and spinning at the lowly 4,200rpm, does task the unit to open larger files or resume from hibernation.

At nearing $2,000 - this is kind of a justification for individuals who could afford it. It is an 11.1" ultraportable, and the smaller the size, it appears to be bigger the price. Honestly, if I had been in the market and had the funds, I would purchase this unit as it has every thing I may wish to look for in an ultraportable - and though it does have it's minor flaws it was rock solid on it's performance (for it is hardware) and it caught a lot more attention than any other notebook I've used (ok, minus the tiny Asus Eeepc). The incorporated accessories are an added bonus - the light weight and rigid materials make this laptop computer not only durable, but great looking as nicely. The performance, even though not a blazing fast machine - would very easily suffice in most things a single will have to accomplish on the road, and would even handle some photoshop editing. I do wish that you could choose a beefier configuration since it only comes pre-configured with fixed specifications.

Creator of this Lenovo Ideapad article is Yasin Resif. For more information about Lenovo Ideapad kinds visit our Lenovo Ideapad sites.