2011年9月14日星期三

ET Review: Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E420s - svelte workhorse

Lenovo's Thinkpad selection has maintained the sense of the first-class business notebook. With elevated competition in the commercial segment, Lenovo has additionally strongly up-to-date its selection. The Thinkpad Edge E420s is a such notebook that's sleek, lightweight, feature-wealthy and it has without any competition because of the aggressive cost.

The E420s includes a distinct advantage due to the shape factor. Weighing just 1.88kg and merely over an inch thick, the notebook sticks out having a magnesium alloy spend. The soft touch surfaces and polished chrome accents increase the sophisticated air. The soft touch surface (both palmrest and top lid get it) helps make the notebook comfortable to keep as well as resists fingerprints. The 14-inch screen uses an 'Infinity Glass' display - Lenovo claims it safeguards the screen from dust and enhances the colours, brightness and contrast. The 1366 x 768 pixel resolution was ample to operate on multiple documents or watch HD videos.

Maintaining with ThinkPad tradition, the advantage 420s has a comfortable Chiclet-style, spill-proof keyboard (no backlit option though), TrackPoint and track pad for simple navigation. The positioning of ports is corrected this time around using the slot-in optical drive positioned on the left side together with a card readers slot and charger point. About the right side may be the USB, powered USB, High-definition multimedia interface out, mic/earphone port and also the warmth vent. Behind is really a USB/e-sata combo port, D-sub port and Ethernet with another warmth vent. Because of the look, battery continues to be integrated in your body and isn't user detachable.

Our review unit were built with a second-generation 2.30Ghz Apple Core i5, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, Apple HD3000 graphics, 320GB of storage and Home windows 7 Professional. With this particular, the notebook obtained a 3.8 within the Home windows Experience Index, a score mainly due to integrated graphics. For any business machine, the integrated graphics are ample, however Lenovo makes the supply for individuals who would like a far more effective machine with optional AMD Radeon HD6630M graphics. Lenovo's RapidDrive technology can also be present using which boot and shutdown occasions happen to be drastically cut to about just a few seconds.

The E420s has a 720p HD webcam, which labored great across skype, Facebook and gtalk. Although, it's a business class notebook, Lenovo has incorporated Dolby Home Entertainment audio that the stereo system loudspeakers deliver very obvious output. Music, movies in addition to video/audio calls were noisy enough to listen to inside a medium-sized room. HD video playback was smooth without any random jerks or video/audio skip - again spectacular for any business class notebook only at that cost point.

Battery existence found just below 6 hrs with Wi-Fi connected and screen brightness at 70%. Within the same cost range, there's not one other notebook available with similar set of features. However, you may also think about a heavier (2.6kg) Acer Aspire 5755G (Rs 43,000) having a 15.6-inch display, Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM and 2GB devoted graphics or you might choose the The new sony Vaio VPCSB16FG - a 13.3-inch notebook for Rs 54,990, which runs a couple.3Ghz Core i5 Processor, 4 GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD5470, 320GB hard disk and weighs in at about 1.72 Kg.

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