Cheap ThinkPad Edge E430 3254ACU 14" LED Notebook Intel Core i3 i3-2350M

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The Edge provides what I expected the best typing experience available, bar none. The battery runs twice as long as the usual multimedia laptops in this price range 5 to 6 hours, which really makes me happy, as you could just leave the power cord at home.

The machine feels heavy to carry around, even at 2.2 Kgs, it needs to shed atleast half a kilo to feel even remotely portable, getting rid of the dvd drive should be the first thing to do. Maybe I'll ask the service center guys to remove it.

The main disappointment is how slow the boot is, how slow the hard drive is. Often the windows explorer fails to display files in a folder! It takes eons to display the folder contents at times, and thats super frustrating! Overall speed once the system is running is perfectly fine, browser tabs and office software run fast enough, but you do see the system running slow from time to time, I'm guessing a very slow hard drive as the culprit.

Since they dont give you a Windows dvd, I've tried reinstalling from the recovery partition but have failed. Will take it to the service center for reinstall, and hope the machine runs faster after removing the lenovo bloatware.

The machine ran very cool for the first 4 months, and has just started to get mildly warm now. You wont hear the fan running at all though, very silent machine, except the clackety of the keyboard.

And yeah, the touchpad is useless, doesnt register clicks most of the time, and this is a Thinkpad!

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We have been using this since Sept of 2011 and it just works. So far it can really handle all the task we thow it. It's true that it is a kinda heavy, but that is to be expected. I also use it to play combat arms online without . I'm planning on replacing the current 320GB HD WITH A 120GB SSD for improve performance.

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It has common Lenovo issue with fan, which is increasing and decreasing all the time, and it's a lil bit annoying. Other than that it's ok

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I gave this to my mother -what a horrible out-of box experience. She was confused by all the bloatware, the updates failed and the disk got corrupted, so now it goes through check disk and a failed update every time she starts it. So now I think she'll have use the recovery partition and start again from scratch. My advice -spend the extra money and get a Mac. It's worth it.