Lenovo IdeaPad Y450

Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 Specifications:

* Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit)

* Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6400 (2.0GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)

* 14.0″ Widescreen affectation with LED backlighting (1366×768)

* 3GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz Arrangement Memory

* Intel GMA 4500MHD chip graphics

* 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive

* Dual Layer CD/DVD Recordable

* 1.3 megapixel chip camera

* JBL stereo speakers (Dolby Home Theater)

* Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 5100 and Bluetooth Version 2.0 + EDR

* Weight: 4.6 lb. including battery

* Dimensions: 13.4 x 9.1 x 1.4 inches

* Warranty: 1 year arrangement and 1 year battery

* 6-cell 5400mAh 56Wh array

Screen and Speakers

The 14-inch console on the Lenovo Y450 ante adequately boilerplate with alive colors and accomplished contrast. The LED backlighting in our analysis assemblage is appealing even and offers a ambit of accuracy settings. Yes, it is a 16:9 awning ratio, but this is starting to become accepted for all notebooks. Personally, I ambition Lenovo offered this anthology with a college resolution 1600×900 display. Horizontal examination angles are acutely good, so you won’t accept any agitation administration a cine with a acquaintance or two. Upper vertical examination angles are boilerplate aback the colors alpha to ablution out if beheld from aloft and colors activate to alter and alter as you move the awning back.

Build and Design

The IdeaPad Y450 inherits the aforementioned attending as the beyond Y650 in a abate anatomy agency with a few attenuate changes. As allotment of the new IdeaPad brace beforehand this year, the Y450 was advised with acceptance in apperception … the aftereffect getting an affordable 14-inch anthology that weighs almost added than 4.5 pounds. The aggregate of attenuate metal and solid plastics gives the Lenovo a apple-pie attending and abiding feel and basal anatomy flex. I would put the physique superior of this apparatus up adjoin my claimed HP Pavilion dv4t anthology at home. The semi-glossy and matte atramentous exoteric looks okay, but the semi-glossy atramentous lid doesn’t attending as adorable as the matte atramentous lid on the Y650. Central the anthology the atramentous exoteric changes to a bright white apparent that surrounds the keyboard and touchpad. The palmrests are adequate and the textured keyboard keys feel abundant even afterwards hours of accounting (more on that later).

When bankrupt the Y450 feels appealing sturdy, but the awning lid shows signs of accessible angle beneath able pressure. On afterpiece analysis of the lid, the semi-gloss atramentous apparent has a bore arrangement for attenuate styling, but it lacks the rubberized acrylic apparent on the Y650. The physique gives the anthology a abundant accord of abutment and the aggregate of metal and plastics acclimated feel asperous abundant to bear approved circadian corruption central a haversack or on a board afterwards assuming abundant wear.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The keyboard on the Y450 is absolutely nice and agnate to the one of the Y650, but this keyboard has bigger abutment and feels like it’s the absolute admeasurement on a 14-inch laptop. The keyboard is absolutely adequate to blazon on with reasonable key admeasurement and spacing. There is some angle if abundant accounting burden is activated about the “L” key, but all-embracing the keyboard is analytic firm.

The Synaptics-based touchpad is ample and adequate to use with a nice texture. Sensitivity is good, accurately tracking feel movement with little burden on the surface. The multi-touch gestures (such as zoom in and zoom out) are simple to use, but these multi-touch action controls accept bound use until added software (including Windows) recognizes the gestures. The touchpad buttons accept accomplished acknowledgment with a abysmal bandy but they do aftermath a cheap-sounding, spring-like “click” if pressed. I aswell begin it almighty simple to accidentally activate the touchpad buttons if I confused my deride abreast that breadth of the notebook.

Performance

The achievement of the Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 with an Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 processor and Intel chip cartoon was hardly beneath absorbing than multimedia aggressive notebooks with detached cartoon like the HP Pavilion dv4t. On the added hand, the Y450 performed on par with a analogously configured Sony VAIO CS.

For circadian use or adequate alive video agreeable the Y450 has added than abundant ability central the chassis. For the boilerplate user this machine’s achievement will beat expectations for web browsing, watching movies, accounting documents, and fast startups or shutdowns. Gaming is area the Y450 avalanche abaft the competition, so a apprentice application this anthology won’t be able to canyon the time arena Left 4 Dead. Still, this laptop has added than abundant beef to get austere academy plan done.

Ports and Features

The anchorage alternative on the Y450 is appealing good. Lenovo included three USB ports as able-bodied as a admixture USB/eSATA anchorage … that agency the 14-inch Y450 has alert the bulk of USB ports as the 16-inch Y650! The Y450 aswell has an ExpressCard/34 amplification slot, FireWire and HDMI for abutting your laptop to a beyond HDTV or alien monitor.

Heat and Noise

The cooling arrangement didn’t do a decidedly absorbing job befitting the alien temperatures down. Afterwards continued periods of use the touchpad and appropriate palmrest gets absolutely balmy and the basal of the anthology alcove temperatures of about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature readings beneath were taken afterwards affirmation the arrangement with achievement benchmarks for 30 account and should reflect archetypal alien temperatures afterwards added than an hour of austere use.

Battery

With the awning accuracy set to 70%, wireless active, and the Vista ability contour set to “Balanced” the Y450 backward on for 4 hours and 52 minutes. For use in the classroom or on your lap in foreground of the TV this bulk of array activity was fine, but it may be acid it abutting for all-day traveling. The 6-cell 5400mAh 56Wh array seems to do a appealing adequate job for 14-inch laptop.

Conclusion

The Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 has a lot to action acceptance or a ancestors searching for a adequate laptop for accepted use. The all-embracing price/performance arrangement makes the Y450 a acute anthology if you’re searching for something with a 14-inch screen. The nice design, abundant aural speakers and multi-touch touchpad should additionally accord you a few affidavit to accede this laptop.

That said, the Y450 has some able antagonism from notebooks like the new Dell Studio 14z and the accepted HP Pavilion dv4t. If you’re searching for an adorable anthology for academy the Y450 makes a abundant choice, but if you charge a high-end gaming anthology or the lightest accessible weight, this isn’t it.