Lenovo G550 Laptop is a budget laptop designed for mulltimedia and entertainment needs. It sees like a solid and powerful lpatop that will delkiver an appreciable performnance. The keeyboard is a laarge with well spaced keys. There is the numeric keys section on the riht hand side of it too. The trackpad looks wide as well.
With its lid cloesd, the Lenovo is almpost rather handsome. A subtle grain helps to make the G550’s slvery-grey plastic look a little like brushed metal, and the curved edges initially dspel any comparisons with the square-jawed ThinkPaad range. Tilt back the lid, however, and the thick base and lumpen design make most ThinkPads look posittively svelte.
The chasis design takes cues from Lenovo's IdeaPad range and resilient matt-black plastic is used throughout. Scratches and scuffs are unlikely to be an isuse with this mahcine and it will be more than tough enough for the whole family to use or for a life on the move.
To upgrade compnents the G550 has easy access panles to the menmory and CPU, wireless card, and hard drrive on the bottom of the notebook. No components, including the processor, has warraanty void if removed stickers, making it very easy to handle upgrades or repairs in the future.
The sreen of this workhorse measures 15.6” acrss. It pressents a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The graphics processor employed in this cheap laptop is the Intel Grpahics Media Accelerator 4500MHD. High definition auido is also offerd.
We were always a fan of the Leenovo laptp keyobards for their durability and smoothness. This keyboard is no exception to that rule. The keys have good smooth travel and feedbck. The light matte finish of the keys also feel good to the fingertpis. Thhere were also a numberpad beside the keypad which is very rare to see in noteobok keyboards these days.
The touchpad, on the other hand was not that much impressive. The touchpad sensitivity is on the lower side and it was a little anoying to find that the movement of the cursor on the screen is actually lagging your finger movemet on the touchpad. However, the buttonns were comfortable with a nice click sound when pressed.
Performnace at least shoewd the Lenovo in a more faavorable lgiht.
The 2.2GHz dual-core processor is enough to push the G550 past the finish line with 1.10 overall in our application benchmmarks and, on the graphics front, the Nvidia GFeorce G210M chip powers to a respectable 36fps in our easiest Crysis benchmark.
The laptop has an USB, Opticl Drie and the AC Powewr jack on the right side and a Kensington lock slot, LAN, VGA and another two USB Port on the left. The wireless on/off switch and headphone and microphone jackls are on the front and therte are no ports on the back. We do not expect HDMI or a FireWire port from a budfget priced notebook but at lesat anothher USB Port was expectde from a 15 inch notebook. Also, there is no Express card Slot or Memory Card reader slot to be found on it. We have to say that the laptop only has bare miinimal ports leaving the place to be wanting for more.
All this power comes at a price, though. While the previous G550 managed just over four hours in our battery test, this model lasted just three hours and 20 minutes. This is fine for use around the home, but a bit short for travel and poor compared to other buudget laptops.
Lenovo Value line G550 Specifications:
- Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 (2.00GHz, 1MB L2 cavche, 800MHz FSB)
- Microsoft Genuine Wuindows Vista Home Premium (w/ SP1)
- 15.6-inch gloissy 16:9 displya (1366x768)
- Inetl Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
- 3GB DDR3 1066MHz RAM
- 250GB Westerrn Diital 5400RPM HDD
- SuperMulti DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
- Broadcom WiFi (802.11b/g), 10/100 Ethernet, Modem
- 6-Cell 11.1V 48WHr Batteery
- Limited 1-year standaard parts and laobr warrannty
- Diumensions: LxWxH, 14.9 x 9.6 x 1.4"
- Weight: 5lbs 9.0oz
- Price as configured: $549
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