Lenovo Ultrabook not just thin

Lenovo IdeaPad U300s ultrabook

Lenovo entered the market by presenting IdeaPad U300s ultrabook. Do not want to be called talkative mimics MacBook Air, Lenovo chose to not compete but rather highlight the slim design and performance aspects.

"We have a separate segment that is targeting the premium segment which emphasizes ultra mobility. But we also emphasize the exclusive design and performance are more qualified," said Product and Business Development Manager Cung Cien Lenovo Indonesia in Jakarta, Wednesday (30/11/2011).

If the Macbook Air is famous for ketipisannya, Lenovo only made with the 14.9 mm thicker, almost under standard Ultrabook from Intel at the level of 15 mm. However, this ultrabook thinner than the Toshiba Portege Z830 at the level of 15.99 mm, but still less than the Acer Aspire S3 by 13 mm and Asus Zen Book of only 9 mm.

Weighing just 1.32 kg, heavier than the Asus Zenbook when 1.29 kg and the Toshiba Portege Z830 is already 1.12 kg.

The difference is Ultrabook is equipped with anti-theft feature with the antitheft protection on its BIOS. So the laptop can be tracked when lost or stolen, can be traced as being connected to the Internet.

In addition, so the laptop is not hot, IdeaPad double fan is equipped with ventilation holes on the left side of the laptop. In addition, there is a small ventilation holes in between the keyboard and screen. More sophisticated, in every crevice of the keyboard also have ventilation holes to release heat. So when the laptop is not going to feel hot lap.

Keyboard and TouchPad

Adopt range chicklet-style keyboard so impressed typing comfortable when worn. Unfortunately, Shift and Backspace keys are made with different size and location, so it will be difficult for those accustomed to the standard keyboard.

While the touchpad is a measuring 4.1 x 2.8 inches using Synaptic Clickpad technology. In these tools the user can pinch to zoom in quickly and accurately. Lenovo also added some special movement, by moving the four fingers to the right to display the Notepad, four fingers to the left displays an image gallery that can also to change the Wallpaper, and four fingers up enables users to switch from one application to another quickly.

Screen

Ultrabook prime Lenovo uses 13.3-inch screen with resolusi1.366 x 768 pixels.

Design

Unlike other series IdeaPad, Lenovo buried air ducts in the left side of the keyboard. Business connectivity, the right side there is an HDMI port, headphone jack, charging connector and USB 3.0 ports, USB 2.0 port is on the left. Unfortunately there are no slots for reading memory card, VGA and LAN ports.

Boot

Boot time takes about 4 seconds, much longer when compared ultrabook from Toshiba, Acer and Asus are on average only need 2 seconds. To boot Windows 7 Home Premium takes 15 seconds, better than the Asus UX31 which takes 29 seconds and the Samsung Series 9 to 25 seconds.

Performance

Ultrabook equipped with Intel Core i7-M 2677, 4 GB of RAM and storage media type SSD (Solid State Drive) with a capacity of 256 GB.

Battery

This series is claimed to be able to survive for 6 hours 52 minutes to 8 jam.Laptop is also equipped with technology that enables Rapid chargers recharge the battery 50 percent in just 30 minutes.

Price

Ideapad U300s priced at 1699 dollars for a model that uses an Intel Core i7 and will soon be available in December.

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