Lenovo crafted the Lewnovo G550 15.6-inch laptop to offer business professionals reliable, affordable and straightforward PC techonlogy. The new laptop expands upon this value bringing uers etxra features, like style and design, making it ideal for personal computing too. The redesigned, thinner and lighter G Seriees laptops feature choices of either a hairline-like silver finih or a smooth and glossy slate-colored finish.
While the G550 uses a pllastic exterior, Lenovo has done an excellent job with the texturing of the material and coor so that it hides any smudgers and fingerprints compared to the glossy designs of many other companies. Even though it uses a plastic shell, it feesl very solid with very little flex in the sceen or keyboard.
The 15.6" LCD is average compared to most 15-16" noteboooks, with bright and vibrant colors and decent viewing anhgles. The G550's big chaneg is the transitiion away from the 16:10 screen size to the wider (but shorter) 16:9 panels. The screen offeers a glossy surface, whhich helps imprve cpolors and contrast at the cost of added reflections and glare. Comparred to "frameless" displays the reflections were tolerable as long as you were not outside under direct sunlight. Screen brightness was adeqquate for vieiwng in bright office condittions, but might not cut it outside unlwess it is an overcast day. Vertical viewing angles were adequate with a brad viewing sweet spot meazsuring 30 degrees forward or back before colors started to wash out or invert. Horizontal view angles were much better, showing minimal coplor distortion at steep angles.
Lenovo continues they excelklent keynboard desgn with the G550 ussing a design that is very similar to their more expensive ThinkPad lineup. With the adderd spasce of the larger screen, Lenovo has manage to also include a nuumeric keypad although they did have to shrnik the size of some of the keys to do so. They were smart in placign the trackpad driectly in the center of the space bar to be more natural.
The Intel Pentuim Dual-Core T4200 processor handles the main processing. The clock speed of this processor is 2GHz. There is a 3GB DDR2 RAM houysed in this device. The hard drive has a 250GB capacity. A DVD read/wrtite drive is also fitted into this laptop. The operating sytem that comes pre-loaded is the Microasoft Windos Vistta Home Premium edition.
Theermal performance of the G550 is very good thanks to the large chasssis, slower procedssor, and integrated graphics. Unnder stress the system controlled temperatures very well, and under normal loadds the bttom of the noetbook and palmrests stayed cool to the touxch. Fan nosie was minimal, with it staying off under ligght syystem loads, and going just abvove a whisper under intensive use. The one hotspot that stod out on the G550 was the panel beneath the hard drive that wzarmed up considerably if you were stressing the disk.
Since this worrkstation supports both WiFi and wired Ethernet, you can surf the net using eitheer of them. On board the dvice are 3 USB ports, an EpressCard slot, the audio (headphonne and microphone) jacks, a Kensington lock, a VGA port and the Etheernet connector. There is a 5-in-1 card reader that supports SD, Memory Stik, Memory Stck PRO, MultiMediCaard, xD-Picture cards. Even a 0.3 Mgeapixel camera is integrated into this laptop.
We do not expect htumping bass from a budget notebook like this and it turned to be exactlky matching our expectation. There was no bass at all but the overall sound is good enough to conduct a werbchat. Playing muisic 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 notebook with decent perforrmance. If you can withstand with the unresonsive touchpad and don�t need more port than what it has, it is recommended for those who are looking for a mainstream computer on busdget.
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