Lenovo IdeaPad U350

Introduction

Who says size notebook is heavier than a netbook, the size of Lenovo's latest notebook weighs the same as netbooks. Despite having the same weight but the performance of the Lenovo IdeaPad U350 netbook performance well above average. The IdeaPad U350 uses the screen size of 13 inches are easily seen and easy to use for typing. Besides being equipped with screens 13 inches, the IdeaPad U350 is also supported by high-performance processors but prices remain affordable IdeaPad U350.



Design



IdeaPad U350 comes with dimensions of 328 x 228 x 17 mm and weighs 1.6 kg including battery 4 cells. The outside of the IdeaPad U350 looks patterned diamond and sometimes looks shiny when exposed to light, on the outside there is also the Lenovo logo silver color. On the inside there are size 13-inch LCD screen that looks shiny.

Diast keyboard there is the power button, key recovery, and the mute button. There are no multimedia keys and volume buttons on the top of the keyboard.




Keyboard and Touchpad


IdeaPad U350 keyboard is large enough, but there is no distance between the one with the other buttons. Perform typing using the keyboard feels comfortable because IdeaPad U350 keyboard keys feel responsive and easy to use. When we do a quick typing keyboard can be used to accurately without errors when we do the typing with 10 fingers. Unfortunately the right Shift key smaller size so that sometimes makes it hard to be pushed.
Under the keyboard there is a touchpad that is large enough, on the surface of the touch if there is a point which makes it easy to use touch surface. IdeaPad U350 touchpad supports multi-touch movement which you can use on several programs contained in the IdeaPad U350 like Ms.office, browser, and photo gallery.

Bottom of the touchpad there are two buttons that serve to replace the function button on the mouse.



Screen, Webcam, and Audio



The IdeaPad U350 uses 13.3-inch screen size that looks shiny with a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The screen is equipped with LED backlight technology that makes the screen looks bright and clear. Web pages and videos that we play looks clear and clean when played on the screen IdeaPad U350. When we look at the screen from certain angles sometimes look glossy screen which makes it difficult to see.

At the top screen is the camera resolution 1.3-megapixel webcam that can be used well to make video calls. Our speaker's voice sounds very good, as well as with the speaker we are also able to listen to our voice very well. Rapid hand movements visible blur on the screen, but if you do not move quickly the camera can capture your image properly.
Sound from the stereo speakers sounded loud enough IdeaPad U350 when we tried to play songs from the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, entitled "Can not Stop" from the album Red Hot Chili Peppers on Slacker. If you listen to the speakers in a small room, the voice sounded very loud.


Port



On the right side there is the IdeaPad U350 card reader 4-in-1, a hole headphone, microphone jack, two USB ports, and power jack. On the left side there is poer IdeaPad U350 VGA, HDMI port, Ethernet port, USB port, and the Wi-Fi switches.


Performance


IdeaPad U350 yours is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1:40 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache), 4GB of RAM, and OS Windows Vista Home Premium. For hard drive, the IdeaPad U350 using 320GB hard drives with the speed of 5.400-rpm that the score of 1.504 points in PCMark Vantage tests.


On the LAPTOP Transfer Test (memindahka files of 4.97GB of many files and folders), IdeaPad U350 hard drive can transfer data with an average speed of 22.9 MBps, which is 3 Mbps is faster than the speed of the notebook hard drive class.



To activate the Windows Vista operating system until it can be used, the IdeaPad U350 takes 1 minute 17 seconds.
We try to convert video duration 5 minutes 5 seconds with the MPEG-4 format to AVI format using Handbrake software. IdeaPad U350 takes 20 minutes 14 seconds which is quite slow when compared with the notebook class.
When we test for open office programs such as MS.Office and browsers, IdeaPad U350 takes under 5 seconds to open the program.



Graphics Cards



The IdeaPad U350 uses an Intel graphics card GS45 Express Chipset, graphics card made by Intel has a performance that is not too good. In the 3DMark06 tests the graphics card, graphics card IdeaPad U350 only get a value of 604 points. When we try to play games with high-class graphics Far Cry 2 uses the screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, the screen can only display images with speed 4 fps.


Battery Endurance and Wi-Fi


IdeaPad U350 that we have to use 4-cell battery, the trial LAPTOP Battery Test (browsing via Wi-Fi), battery power last up to 3 hours 30 minutes. The IdeaPad U350 notebook battery life quite poor when compared with the endurance class notebook battery which can last up to 4 hours 30 minutes in the same trial.


Lenovo sells 8-cell battery for the IdeaPad U350 you can use it for longer but are quite expensive.

The IdeaPad U350 uses an Intel 802.11a/b/g/n wireless chip that can deliver data at speeds 17.2 Mbps at a distance of 15 feet from our router and 15.5 Mbps at a distance of 50 feet from our router.
Upgrade Options



For Indonesia, the Lenovo IdeaPad U350 to sell two types. The first uses an Intel Core 2 Duo processor SU9400 (1:40 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache), which both use the Intel Core 2 Solo processor SU3500 (1:40 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache, 5.50W). For RAM, you can upgrade to 8GB.

Software and Warranty



IdeaPad U350 is equipped with software such as MCE for Premium, VeriFace V 3.5, Easy Capture 3.5, Lenovo Energy Management Software 4.0, Norton Internet Security 2009, Adobe Reader 9.0, OneKey Recovery 6.0, APS (only for HDD), WinDVD (For HBV, w, o BD), Windows Live, Lenovo Readycomm 5.0, Office Professional 2007 for WW, Carbonite, Wild Tangen
Lenovo includes an official one-year warranty for the IdeaPad U350.



Closing Remarks


With the price of USD 1100, the IdeaPad U350 is quite a bit expensive because it is not equipped with optical drives. However desainya thin and light is its own selling price for the IdeaPad U350

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