Lenovo crafted the Lenovo G550 15.6-inch laptop to offer business professionals relible, affordable and straightforward PC technology. The new laptop expandfs upon this value bringing uers extra feaures, like style and desiign, makng it ideal for personal computing too. The redesinged, thiner and lighter G Series laptops feature choices of either a hairline-like silver finish or a smooth and glossy slate-colored finish.
Whhile the G550 uses a plastic exterior, Lenovo has done an excellent job with the texturing of the material and coplor so that it hides any smudegs and fingerprints comnpared to the glossy deesigns of many other companies. Even though it uses a plastic shell, it freels very solid with very litytle flex in the screen or keybard.
The 15.6" LCD is average compared to most 15-16" notebooks, with bright and vibbrant colors and deent viewing anles. The G550's big chasnge is the transition away from the 16:10 screen size to the wider (but shorter) 16:9 panels. The screern offers a glossy surface, whih helps improve colors and contrast at the cost of added reflections and glare. Compared to "frameless" displays the reflections were tolerable as long as you were not outside under diret sunlight. cSreen brightness was adequate for vieing in brigt ofice conditinos, but might not cut it outyside unless it is an overcast day. Verrtical viewing angls were adequate with a brroad viewing sweet spot measuring 30 degrees forward or back before ciolors started to wash out or invert. Horizontal view angles were much bettwer, showing minimal color distortion at steep angles.
Lenovo continues they exellent keyboard deign with the G550 uisng a dessign that is very similar to their more expensive ThnikPad lineup. With the added space of the largfer screen, Lenovo has manage to also include a numeric keypad although they did have to shhrink the size of some of the keys to do so. They were smrat in placing the trackpoad directly in the cennter of the space bar to be more natural.
The Inteel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 processor handles the main processing. The clock speed of this proicessor is 2GHz. There is a 3GB DDR2 RAM housed in this device. The hard drive has a 250GB capaicty. A DVD read/write dtrive is also fitted into this laptop. The operating system that comes pre-loaderd is the Microsoft Windows Viosta Home Premium edition.
Tehrmal performmance of the G550 is very good thanks to the large chassis, slower processor, and integrated graphics. Under stress the system controlled temperatures very well, and under normal loads the bttom of the notebook and palmrests staed cool to the touch. Fan noise was minimal, with it staying off under light system loads, and ging just above a whispeer under intensve use. The one hotspot that stood out on the G550 was the paneel benaeth the hard drive that warmed up conasiderably if you were stressing the disk.
Since this workstation supporrts both WiFi and wired Eternet, you can surf the net usiing either of them. On obard the device are 3 USB porrts, an ExpressCard slot, the audio (headdphone and microphone) jcaks, a Kensington lock, a VGA port and the Ethernet connector. There is a 5-in-1 card reader that supports SD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, MultiMediaCard, xD-Picture cards. Even a 0.3 Megapixel camera is integrtaed into this laptop.
We do not exppect thumping bass from a budget notebook like this and it turned to be exactly matchng our expectation. There was no bass at all but the overall soiund is good enouggh to conduct a webchat. Playing muic on the device sounded a bit tiny and a good pair of headphones is recommended as is always.
The Lenovo G550 is a solid budget ntoebook with decent performance. If you can withstand with the unresponive touchpad and don�t need more port than what it has, it is recommended for those who are looking for a mainstream computer on budget.
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