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Lenovo IdeaPad U300S

U300S is a stylish ultra-book with long battery life and a powerful performance at an attractive price.

Posted on: Friday, February 03, 2012 15:51 IST | Deepika Gupta

Updated on: Friday, February 03, 2012 15:56 IST

Lenevo U300s is an ultra-slim notebook with stylish build. The notebook comes with an attractive metal design. The 13.3 inch screen has a native resolution of 1366x768p, which is lower than some of its close competitors, such as Asus Zenbook and Macbook air. It has sturdy, well-spaced keys that respond to slightest touches and is assisted by a cool palm rest. It’s body is resistant to fingerprints and smudges due to matte finish. The notebook has undersized keys and a few dislocated keys. Talking about the connectivity, the device has HDMI and USB3.0 port, unlike Macbook Air, and has mic, headphone and USB2.0 port.

In the benchmark tests, U300s emerged as a strong performer. Having such high configuration and being a home notebook it shows great performance which reflects in PC Mark score of 8472. Battery life, which is an important aspect in home notebooks, is quite good in it at 3 hrs. 30 min. The notebook boots fast due to Enhanced Experience 2.0 RapidDrive SSD technology. The sound quality is also good for an ultra-book. The presence of USB 3.0 ensures faster data transfer. In the 3D Mark test, it is an avergae performer with the score of 3510.

Some notable fetaures in Lenovo U300S are its One key recovery button, located at the left of the keypad helps backing up your system partition into an image file. It helps you to restore a system back up point or the initial state. It also helps to create a bootable recovery disc from system back up. These discs can also be used to boot the system. Lastly, it has Intel’s Wi-Di technology, which can wirelessly stream content, including HD videos from your laptop on a TV or monitor.

Specifications:
1.60 GHz Intel Core i5 processor
4GB DDR3 SDRAM
120GB SSD
Intel GMA HD 3000
Bluetooth 3.0, USB 3.0
3 years warranty

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Deepak said on 2/22/2012 8:02:46 PM:
Good work. N thanx for the information...

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vimal kumar said on 2/22/2012 10:40:49 AM:
Laptop without Keyboard 7Keypad google

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Ravi Panwar said on 2/14/2012 7:34:41 PM:
good work speaks for itself .. nicely done. Keep them coming !!

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Himanshu Negi said on 2/10/2012 9:52:13 AM:
Let me the first one to congratulate on this amazing review you have written. I was just going through the article and the points you have mentioned (in favor and against), were the exact points going through in my head. Though i think the price is a littel too steep. But still geat job on the review

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akshay said on 2/8/2012 12:54:16 AM:
Hey tthanks for the useful info... i was looking for this !!

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