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  Wednesday, 21 January 2009

Got 4 of these Notebooks to use as exibition website viewers, they come in around the £420.00 mark with Bag, Vat, mouse, mouse pad, postage and a lock, so they are near the budget end of things, but not in any way other than the price, 15.4" screen-crisp and bright, fastish with a Pentium dual-core 2000+a bit, 2 GB of ram, 4 USB's, I could go on but check the spec-
What it cant tell you is whats it like build quality wise, well time will tell but its very solid, if a little heavy, but feels nice and chunky. when it came it was loaded with Vista, so that had to go, and used the discs to downgrade to XP, I dont see it as a downgrade, more of a side step, this took ages, well 2 hours, and beware, it doesent promp for the second disc, so if you think its hung, shut down, (probably have to hold the on/off button down) reboot with the other disc in, the second one has no reference to XP on it, anyway its all a bit confusing, and frustrating, but several automatic reboots later and the usual install of SP3 but not too much Lenovo stuff to deal with, and we are ready to roll, oh the Norton 90 day trial came off in favour of AVAST.
As I look at the screen now, not glass but hard plastic, I think this is one of the best screens I have seen, the graphics are on board and the spec isn't that amazing, I will have to test later, but as general word processor business machine, I give it 8.9 out of ten. I found it had a good balance of features when comparing to other machines in the price range, it doesn't look flash on the outside, but there are enough lights and switches to make most things like sound up/down/off a mouse free action, I like the blue/violet led's, and its also fairly quiet! Thanks IBM!

Labels: IBM, laptop, Lenovo, N500, review

# posted by Allan Smyth @ 00:05

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