Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 019727U Review
After over a decade of occupation of the same matte black boxes with fresh hardware, Lenovo has finally bowed to the gods design and tried to put a bit of an edge on the reputation of the working class stiff ThinkPad. Like the SL-series from the Edge blends familiar ThinkPad design elements with a more 21st Century chassis. Although it is equipped a fairly well-rounded package, a high price for the Intel model, not an option for discrete graphics and lack of essentials such as an optical drive is left feeling incomplete.
With 13.3-inch screen on tap, the Edge, a portable size fills niche north of machines that netbooks could be considered – like the new X100e – but in South-price of the ultra-thin models – as the 13.3 – inch X301. Measuring 1.4 inches thick, the Edge does not mean that somewhere in the vicinity are pricier cousin dimensions, but it works wonderfully close in weight to come. At 3.6 pounds, the Edge feels very light for its size and gives the 2.93-kilo-X301, a literal run for their money – taking into account the latter costs more than twice as much. And not even begin to compare with heavyweights with the same screen size as brickish 4.7-pound Apple MacBook. If you are not breaking the brake calipers to another issue of National Geographic fit in your carryon airline that makes the Edge a very competent travel machine.
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Lenovo has the edge in two flavors: with AMD or Intel CPUs, starting at $ 579 and $ 799, respectively. AMD Turion X2 1.6GHz people get one with integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card support, while the Intel version gets a 1.3 GHz Core 2 Duo clocked at a conservative and supported by integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD. Our test unit came with a 1.3 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM stacked, Intel GMA 4500MHD, a 320 GB hard drive, integrated WiMAX and a six-cell battery.
Performance
Lenovo’s Edge hits the desktop in about 50 seconds, and fires a Chrome window in about a minute and five second mark. This is about average for an engine with the specifications and fully usable.
As we would expect from any Core 2 Duo machine, the steps Edge reasonably quickly to normal Windows tasks, including the use of navigation and instant messaging. Streaming movies from SouthParkStudios.com, YouTube, and Hulu all played fluently – including the high quality and high-definition (720p) versions. However, step up to high-quality video, such as Apple’s 720p or 1080p movie trailers, and you will be at the limits of what it will do encounter choppy (but not completely unwatchable) video.
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Futuremark PCMark Vantage In-Suite, the Lenovo Edge turned a score of 2823, an acceptable, but do not expect particularly exciting number from a machine with a relatively tame no CPU and dedicated graphics.
Without a discrete graphics card, we have not even both tests gaming performance. Expect a lot of older games will only passable on this system, and then only with reduced settings.
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Although Lenovo predicts up to eight hours of battery life with the Intel configuration we used, we found a little more than six hours to a far more accurate estimate with Wi-Fi are hired and screen brightness to maximum.
It is worth noting that Lenovo’s Edge excellent Wi-Fi appears to home, in our time with him, posting complete signal strength in areas where smaller laptops was fought in the past (and where Eye-Fi’s Share Video Card, with decreased compound with a stamp-sized antenna, could not connect at all).
