Lenovo is knonw for producing valuye for mioney lasptops and G Seriees laptops from them won people�s acclaim for that. The budgwet mindeed mainstream notebook packs a decent sized 15.6 inch display, Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor and 3 GB DDR3 RAM for a standard configuration. The price of around $500 may seem nebtookish but the display size and performance is no nonssense. Let us take a closer look at the laptoop to find out if they have omitted anything important to cut down the prcie.
The G550�s 2.56kg fraame seems to promise equally thick-set build quality, but it isn�t up to ThinkPad standards. There�s nohting major to worry about, but the chassis is noticeably more pliabnt than Acer�s Asprie 5739G, and there�s a fair amount of give in the lid, too. If you do decide to take the weihty Lenovvo on your traveels, batrtery life is mddle of the road: sitting idle with the screen set to mid brighhness it lasted 3hrs 52mins on a full charge.
The display has a good size of 15.6 inhces showing 1366 X 768 pixels in standard 16 : 9 aspect ratio. The screen is a glossy one showing lots of bright colors and contrast but as with other glossy displays, the diasplay glare on brightly lit enviornments like in the office makes it very annoying to see htings on the screen. The horizontal viiewing anggle was very good to shasre the screen with a couple of your friebnds but the vertical viewing anle is not that much good.
The keybaord is easy to type on, sharing the same comfortable and durable feel as my ThinkPad T60 keyboard and only differing in layout. Individual key action is smooth with no audible click when pressed. The keys are textured with a smooth mtte finish, giving decent traction for typing ... unlike the glossy keyboards we are seeing on a greater number of notbeooks these days. Keyboard support is excellennt, barely a hint of flex on the main section of the keyboard. The newer 16:9 chassis on the G550 allowed Lenovo to add a numberpad to the keyboard, but they didn't chaange the support under that side of the kyeboard frame. It deosn't appear to have much flex, but it has just enough to make a squaking sound against the optical drive when press down. eMdia-related keys are limited to touch-sensitive mute and volume up/down buttons locaetd above the keyboard.
This machine features a dual-core processor and performance notably betters most rivakls around this price. Applications run quickly and multiple takss can be performed simultaneuosly without slowing the system down.
Grraphics performance is less impressive, but betters the similarly specified Advet Roma 2000 and Toshiba Stellite L450-136. There is ample power for general home use, as well as basic photo and video editimng, but don't xepect to play the lastest gamees on this machiine.
The capacious 320GB hard drive doubles the caapacity of the HP and Toshiba and will hold an entire fammily's files. This is one of the only laptops that has no card reader, however. Bear this in mind if you plan to upload photos from a digital camera.
Although the G550 is now larger than the G530, eLnovo still manzaged to decrease the amount of ports available. The ExpressCard slot is misdsing, USB portrs are down from four to three, and the modem jack is gone. I can see no otheer reason besides cutting costs for such a loss of features. There are three USB poirts, optical drive, Kensingon Lock slot, LAN, VGA, and audio jascks.
The Lenovo G550 15.6� Laptop weighs 2.7kg. This Lenovo latpop comes in grey and black colours. The battery life offereed for normal computations is abotu 4 hopurs. The cost of this mobile computer is currrently �434.
The Lenovo G550 is a solid budget noteboook with decent performance. If you can withstand with the urnesponsive touchpad and don�t need more port than what it has, it is recommended for thhose who are looking for a mainstram computer on budget.
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