Review of Lenovo U400 099329U 14.0-Inch Laptop (Graphite Grey)

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~~~1 year Update~~~

I have downgraded the score from 5/5 to 4/5. This laptop is, for the most part, great. However it has several very serious flaws including: Terrible trackpad, bad monitor, and bad sound.

-Performance3/5 [Average]

Very powerful specs. This laptop may not be a gaming laptop, but will play most things you throw at it very well. Including AutoCAD, SAP2000, light games, and Movies.

-Build5/5 [Excellent]

All in all, its built very well. The exterior, as you can see, is beautiful.

-Keyboard4/5 [Good]

The keyboard looks and feels very nice. The keyboard is slightly narrower than usual, which makes it feel a little awkward. But I haven't had any problems typing.

-Trackpad1/5 [Terrible]

This trackpad is a piece of junk, after using it for a year, I've learned to use the "F6" -turn off trackpad buttonmore than 90% of the time.

I have also disabled "tap to click" and "multi-finger gestures." Left/Right clicking is a nightmare.

-Monitor2/5 [Bad]

The monitor is 1366x768. Which is pretty disappointing but it the norm for 14in laptops and even 15in laptops. The colors are a bit washed out, and I really notice it when I have my laptop next to my desktop monitor. There is definitely a sweet spot for using the monitor, and its pretty small. The hinges don't let it bend back all the way. I'd say, you get about 135 degrees of motion on the hinges. This laptop also has terrible viewing angles.

-Sound2/5 [Bad]

The speakers on this laptop just don't push enough. They are useless in most enviroments that have ambient noise. The quality of the sound itself is pretty average.

-Weight5/5 [Excellent]

It's pretty light weight. I can easily move/carry the laptop around with one hand. I have fallen in love with the ultra light weight. This is truly a mobile laptop.

-Temperature4/5 [Good]

The exterior stays pretty cool. However, inside temperature gets really high. Under 100% load, the cpu easily hits 85C.

The outside occasionally gets pretty hot, but in general, it keeps to a very comfortable temperature.

-Battery Life4/5 [Good]

I get about 2+ hours when running this laptop with 9/10 brightness + with everything on + none of that power saving stuff, with pidgin+firefox+thunderbird+Movie.

-Wifi3/5 [Average]

I have not had any problems with the wifi, but I spend most of my time on a landline. And I haven't had any connection issues on campus, or at my friend's homes.

-Boot Time[NA]

Stock Boot Time 55s to 70s.

Stock Resume Time 1s to 3s.

Boot Time with SSD 15s to 22s

Other:

-Minor Design Flaw!

The majority of the ports are on the right side including the power, hdmi, 2x USB. This makes it a bit hard to use your mouse when you have alot of stuff connected to your laptop power, mouse, external harddrive. Unless you are left handed and have your mouse on the left side of the computer.

Also this laptop does not come with a system recovery disk.

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Now if you want to add your own SSD to this laptop Or increase the amount of RAM.

Any hardware modification to this laptop will void it's warranty.

If you go to the Lenovo Forums and to this page: /t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-and-Z-series/New-U400-General/td-p/580903

There is a thread on hardware modding this laptop and on page 2, there is a link to a Lenovo website with videos on how to take this laptop apart. Note that Taking this laptop apart is VERY difficult and much harder than it seems in the video.

***Note The hard drive bay in the Lenovo U400 can not fit a traditional SSD and can only fit HDD. This is because a USB port intrudes upon the space for the Hard Drive and the traditional hard drive has a small space above the SATA and Power connectors where there isn't anything to obstruct The SSD unfortunately has a lip.

In order to fit a SSD You pretty much only have three choices 1. disassemble your SSD and tape it into to laptop. 2. disassemble your SSD and cut off a corner of it's case with a power tool. 3. Purchase a mSATA SSD and install that alongside your HDD. [I went with option 2] 4. Purchase a height 7mm SSD ex. samsung 830 (will still need to tape ssd).

***Doing a clean install of Windows 7 did not work for me Installing drivers became a nightmare. Recovery Disk can be used Unfortunately your laptop doesn't come with one.

***Upgrading RAM

You only have easy access to one of two Memory Slots. The second slot requires some serious hardware disassembly included the removal of the entire motherboard.

Luckily, the 2GB Memory Chip is on the side that is easy to access. However, having two separate memory chips from different companies on the same system may cause instability and occasional crashes. Which happened when I upgraded the stock 2GB Samsung to a 4GB Corsair.

I would suggest purchasing a single 4GB Samsung stick of the same model as the one in the computer. It'll make your life easier.

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How to take apart the laptop:

Watch the Lenovo Support Videos.

1. Take off two rubber feet The ones in the back next to the monitor hinge. I used a flat head screwdriver with its head covered with a microfiber cloth (to prevent scratches) to pry the feet off.

2. Unscrew two screws under the rubber feet.

3. Pull the bottom cover towards the back of the laptop (back = where the monitor hinge is). You only need to pull it about 2mm. Gently lift the back of the bottom plate while pulling towards you. The back should pop out of the clips with some patience. Be careful not bend the part of the back of the bottom cover that bends up along side the monitor hinge.

After releasing the back and side clips. While pulling the cover to slide it off, also lift the front of the back cover gently.

-This part is the most difficult and I enlisted the help of a friend. I had my friend gently tap the front of the bottom cover with a hammer on top of the back of a screw driver that was covered with some gauze pads.. While he was tapping, I gently pulled the front of the bottom cover away from the laptop.

4. Once the cover is removed the rest is self explanatory.

5. Putting the cover back on. Put the cover back on with the front first. The rest of the clips should click into place as you push down. Afterwards, slide the bottom cover towards the front of the laptop. While pulling, screw the two screws back in. This part was easy and I was able to do it without enlisting help.

-If you have trouble lining up the two screw holes you may have bent the back of the bottom cover, you will have to bend them back into place with your hands or pry them back into place with a flat head screw driver.

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It took me about 4 hours to finish my hardware modifications the first time. I also made alot of mistakes and ended up with a few chips. My second and third time opening up the computer took me about 10 minutes each.

Attempting to get the computer to work and install all the drivers with a clean OS install took me 8 hours and ultimately failed.

Attempting to figure out how to clone the drive and after much google and tech forum searches as well as many failed clone attempts took me about 10 hours. Cloning ultimately was successful.

I experienced some hard drive hangs with the Corsair GT. I was able to fix this by updating the firmware on my SSD.

Tools I used: Philips Screw Driver, Flat Screw Driver, Cloth (micro-weave cloth and a towel), Gauze pads, Hammer, Bench Grinder (Powertool).

Extra Purchases: Acronis True Image Home 2012 $50, Corsair 120GB GT SSD $155, 1x DVD-R $-

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Follow up So it's been almost a year since I got this laptop, and I would have to say...I have to change my original rating of a 5 to a 1 star. Over the period of time, my battery itself started to have problem, my laptop stopped staying cool, and I had issues with it twice. 1 of 2 times I had problem with it, I had to figure it out myself, because the customer service was just horrible. I mean the computer itself is still pretty good but the change to a one star is mainly because of the customer service. So basically, my laptop had a blue screen. Keep in mind, I keep my laptop in very good condition physically. I got my laptop sent in to the repair center and after 1 week, my repair status remained the same. I gave them a call, and I was told that I had water damage in my motherboard and I would have to pay $360+ some fee in order to fix my laptop. I told the rep that I never had water spilled on my laptop ever. She then mentioned that I had some water mark on my keyboard...I proceed to explain to her, I washed my keyboard with a very damped cloth before I sent my laptop for repair, and she tried to explain to me that might had been the problem. All in all, after speaking with a few other reps, I didn't get my problem solved. They insisted on me paying $360+ some fees I couldn't understand. Felt like I shoulda sticked with a brand I was more familiar with and listened to those who said the customer service was horrible. The laptop cost $600-700 bucks now for a new one, so I didn't even bother paying for the repair, hopefully I can retrieve my harddrive datas.

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Original Review

I had this laptop for about a few weeks now. I've been waiting for it to be available since it was announced. I'm sure a lot of buyers will want this laptop because it's basically a Window Macbook. And that is exactly what you get. I am also a mac owner, the quality is on par with Macbooks. This is a very pretty laptop and spec are pretty decent. On the pictures, the shade of silver looks very similar to the macbooks, but it actually a dark slate gray.

Pros -

-Laptop stays cool. It vents from the side, I've had it on for 14 hours once and it was stayed very cool.

-Chiclet keyboard feels really nice.

-Glass trackpad is on par with macbooks.

-Battery last around 6-7 hours.

-Light weight.

Cons -

-Don't really have any beside that I would had preferred an SSD option and Lenovo should make accessories for this laptop already! And I really wanted the Black/Clementine Orange color, but it's only available for the U300s.

So basically if your looking for a nice looking laptop with decent spec, great battery life, light weight and stay cool, this is the laptop for you. Especially if your looking for a Macbook alternative.

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This thing is pretty amazing!

I needed a new laptop after having my previous one for 4 years. I love windows (not that I have anything against Mac OS, just don't prefer it), but I wanted something with the build quality of a mac book pro but a lower price tag. I was really considering getting a mbp, until I saw this laptop. If you are in the same boat as me, then this is the perfect laptop for you. All aluminum body, extremely sturdy look and feel, very sleek design, I would say it matches up perfectly with the mbp but at $300 less.

The thing runs extremely fast. The 2nd generation mobile i series is catching up to the power of the desktop versions. I really don't notice a difference between this laptop and my i5 desktop tower as far as responsiveness. Trust me, performance is not an issue for this laptop. It can handle anything that you can throw at it (obviously that's an exaggeration, but anything reasonable that you can throw at a laptop it can do). It also runs very cool. mbps get hot, especially when setting them on your lap or on a cushioned surface. The cooling out the side and through the keyboard of this laptop makes it stay cool and keeps the bottom of the laptop from becoming a personal heater (which may not be a good thing if are use to using your laptop as one).

The one area I would say the mbp beats this thing hands down is the screen. The screen on the u400 is 1200 x 768 and doesn't look as sharp and clear as the mbp's screen. I like running my screens at really high resolutions even though it's probably not great for my eyes. But it is only a 14 in screen and a higher resolution probably wouldn't make sense. Another small flaw that seems to be common is the screen not closing perfectly flush around the entire edge of the laptop. On the front right corner of mine there is about a 1 mm gap. I can see how this might bother someone. I am one of those people that has to have everything in mint condition and if I know somethings wrong, it bugs me. But for some reason, this doesn't bother me at all. Another aspect that brings up a lot of debate is the glass mouse pad. The u400s pad feels exactly like the mbp's. The only downfall is Windows. It doesn't have the nice soft, smooth scrolling and zooming, or the friction-less gliding scrolling that Mac OS does. It is a little choppier on Windows, but I can live with that (I also believe that Windows 8 does this better).

Another problem for some people might be the amount of I/O it has. It has 1 USB 3.0, 2 USB 2.0, and HDMI, and an optical drive. Laptops are moving away from having PCI buses available and VGA outputs. Not having some of these things can be painful (I am a college student and not having a VGA out can be annoying since all my classes have VGA projectors. But this just requires me to get an HDMI to VGA converter, which is basically what mac users have to do). For me, the USBs are enough.

In summary, if you want something that is sleek and powerful, regardless of your price range, then this is it. I really believe that spending more to get a mbp or one of the top sony vaios is not buying you a better laptop. I don't think anyone will regret owning this thing.

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The laptop looks nice. It is still not ready for prime time.

Nice.

1. Looks. It is a looker. Layout is mostly nice, keyboard has a good touch. Screen is large, clear, bright. Not a bright as I would have hoped. The colors are a little washed out.

2. A lot of features USB, LAN, Slot DVD works with double sided DVD. Have not tried blue ray and will assume it does not work.

3. Cool. It does stay cool and the breadthable keyboard is a nice feature.

4. Weight. For what it has it is nice.

Not so nice.

To fit the bill of being at the top, when a feature is included, it is very well built and works with ease and wonder. This not so with this laptop. Which the concept is good, the features are plenty, they all fall short and make you wish you purchased a different laptop. So here goes my grips. I had a Sony Vaio before and an Acer Aspire. Also played with some Apple, original IBM, Dell so have some comparision to those.

1. The DVD slot is slick but so noisy with loading the CD that it sounds like a cheap DVD player. Some CD's are very noise in their rotation and there is nothing you can do about it but listen to the high whine of the noise. Most CD's play well but that noisy ones number about 10%.

2. You cannot purchase a replacement or extra AC power adaptor. So you are stuck with one. Calling Lenovo will get you redirected to IBM parts which does not have any part by this number. I tried this several times and emailed them, always getting the same push around and ending up in IBM parts. This is the most disappointing of the support and warrants the 1 star. If I lose my AC power adaptor, I am stuck unless I go with a different make/model or 3rd party.

3. The touch pad mouse keys are part of the touch pad so everytime you go to right click and left click you are moving the cursor around. You have to be very accurate and only use a tiny portion of your fingers on the clickers or you will be clicking on something else. The touch pad is smooth and nice but ultra sensitive. This makes for unwanted touches when you want and no moves when you want because the palm or something is close.

4. The build quality seems solid but it is marred, at least on mine. The frame was bent and scratched on the inside. It is small enough that I am just keeping it.

5. There arent enough indicators. You cannot tell when the disk or CD is being used. There are only 2 indicator lights on the front Battery charging/use and on/off. It would be nice to show the disk in use. When booting up and running program, you cannot tell if the laptop is hung or the program is working on the drive, or just slow because of drive access.

5. The right Shift key is so short and it is next to the up arrow so a miss will move you to some other place on the screen when you are typing. This is really annoying if you are used to using the shift key with both hands.

6. The CPU is really fast but the disk is really slow 5400rpm. So it slows the whole computer down. I could not find any options to get the Solid state drive installed. The service manuals show a space and install/removal of an additional solid state drive but this is not the normal solid state drive. It looks like solid state flash memory card with no casing. Because of the disk, you can only tell how fast the CPU is when doing CPU intensive programs.

7. The battery life is only 1 hour when used normally from 1st install. You have to go in and turn off a lot or turn down a lot to get it up to 4 hours.

If you really cripple it, you could possibly get up to 7 hours. This is quite a stretch in their advertising. The battery is internal so you would have to take it to a service center or open it up yourself to get this serviced in the future.

8. The WIfi is probably the worst of the whole laptop. They put the antenna on the bottom of the screen and it is unidirectional. I was stilling next to a person with 5 bars and I could barely hold 1 bar until I turned the laptop a specific direction, even then I only got a sparadoic 3 bars. Comparing this to same locations with the Sony Vaio, I could easily get much better reception on my Vaio in the same locations. The only remedy to this is to get an external Wifi connection. What a dissapointment.

Overall this is not worth a $1,000 (or $800 if you get it from the right place), laptop. I would suggest you wait until Lenovo is ready for prime time before paying this much money for a laptop that has some very bad basic functions wifi, Shift key, buttons on mouse pad, AC Power adaptor (This is the most ridiculouse item in my opinion). Lenovo is still growing up and given a year from now, I am sure the next gen will have all these bugs fixed.

Update.

Found another change which does not work well. The Function keys are not accessible directly and require holding down a function Shift key as well as the function key. Hence F2 in excell requires more keys to get to it then a direct hit. While it is not such a big deal, it is a shift from prior keyboards. Unfortunately I use the Function keys a lot more then the system keys which are the directly level. system keys are volume, brightness, screen selection.

I started using a small external Wifi purchased for $15. This has dramatically improved the Wifi connectability and strength.

I did consider selling this and purchasing something else but it was not it is nice enough to keep and hard to find a replacement with the majority of features I like.

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Lenovo really hit the nail on the head here. Finally, they made a well-rounded and full powered laptop in an extremely stylish package. It is solid aluminum so I'm hoping it's very durable as well, but I've only had it for two days so far. It's very fast, has great, really great speakers for a laptop (not much bass though), never gets hot except right around the fan area on the left hand side, even running flash 1080p videos on youtube. It has a dvd burner, an i5 processor, and the biggest selling point for me was that it has no vents on the bottom, so you can lay it on your bed and never worry about it overheating (which happened to my last laptop and crashed my hard drive.) The trackpad is phenomenal, although I did bump up the sensitivity a bit because the gesture features (which any apple user will tell you are lifechanging and really an ultimate feature of mac laptops' huge glass trackpads) are a bit wonky on windows 7. This trackpad is absolutely beautiful. It's huge, made of glass and has enough sensitivity that makes using gestures on a windows laptop almost as good as on a mac. I'm not sure if its a driver or windows software, but its just not as perfect and effortless as macs, but as good as anyone has ever come on a windows machine. Everything about this laptop oozes style and functionality, but I'm still waiting to see how durable and quality the build is. My last laptop, a Sony Vaio VGN-S480 lasted me 7 years, and would still work if I would pay 100 dollars and install a new fan, but it's time to move on and enjoy all the great features developed for laptops since then, and this laptop embodies the best of what laptops have to offer right now. If you wait for the i7 SSD version, I'm sure you will be even more satisfied, but this build has everything I need or want at a great price, and I'll upgrade to an SSD in two years when they are dirt cheap.

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Overall the computer is half way decent so far. I was quite disappointed that I could not install Ubuntu (or any linux flavor for that matter) on the laptop with or without Windows 8, I haven't used windows since Vista was new. So far even Wubi fails. I cant use it for work, so the laptop just sits there.

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Bought it for a friend (with her money). She's had it exactly 2 years now and nothing major to report. Software got cluttered, but I sorted that by removing some unnecessary startups and reloaded the problem apps. Then it was soaring again.

Lately though she said it freezes occasionally. Don't know what's wrong yet.

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I can truly say that I'm really happy that I made the purchase and the Seller was awesome! This HP laptop has excellent graphics and the sound is very good on it! I made the purchase because I already own an HP 15.6 inch laptop and I just wanted this one as a back up for that one and I really like 17 inch screens because everything is bigger and brighter...lol. I really enjoy it, it's built very well and it's similar to my other HP. The battery life is fine and I have absolutely no complaints. I am so glad that I bought it because HP along with Acer in my opinion makes really good computers! You will not go wrong with purchasing this HP G7-1318DX Dual-Core A4-3305M Laptop!

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Got an email back from. The seller telling me to contact the manufacturer to resolve the issue. They are the ones that sold this unit. They are the ones that got the money. So anyone wanting to purchase o refurbished computer from this company please look anywhere else. ANYWHERE

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I find that the cursor jumps around when I'm typing and messes up my text. It is very annoying. I think the pad is too sensitive when my hand brushes it. There needs to be a way to adjust the sensitivity.

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Got laptop and within a day lost windows and now wont load or anything.. not happy at all with the dell laptop.

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I was looking for a second computer, specifically one with Windows XP. I read the seller's notes and was I surprised when it arrived. It arrived sooner than I'd expected. What I got was much more than I expected; the "scratches and scuffs" I didn't notice. The "works great" is the Honest-Abe's truth. It's always a risk buying used; I'm glad I took the chance on John Amrhein. Couldn't be happier!

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Very impressed with the product and the seller. First of, i received the laptop way faster than expected. Its in very good physical condition. I dont know much about laptops, but its seems to be working, hopefully as i dig further into it i would continue to be pleased. The only thing is, i hope this seller or any others can be more detailed about the conditions of their products, because it can really help. I almost didnt buy this laptop bc i was afraid it would be in bad shape.

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Got it in short time, was everything they said it would be , plus!! no complaints none at all, would recommend if your looking at this comment. I sure didn't go wrong!!

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I purchased this laptop for my brother's daughter who is 11 years old for educational purposes, as well as, playing games and stay connected to her family and friends. She loves her laptop and it was readily available for a faction of the cost. It works well even as a used item. No problems with this item as of yet.

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This is a really great machine here are my specs.

17" Intel core i7 is a beast! Purchased brand new and custom from the Apple online store in summer 2010. I've upgraded the memory to 8GB and has the 7200 rpm 500GB hard drive and superdrive. The battery has a cycle count around 300 which is listed as normal under system information and still holds a wonderful charge.

Never had any repairs on this machine and it has never given me any problems. There are a few light scratches on the casing from everyday use, and the black nubs on the bottom have some light wear but cosmetically I think the machine can still pass as brand new.

All the current programs run extremely well on this machine and if you have the chance to own one do yourself a favor and purchase one.

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The product was old and in poor condition when it finally arrived 3 weeks after it was ordered. I returned it took 3 days to get there and was charged $150 for returning it. The refund was made 3 days after the product was delivered to its origin. I feel utterly ripped off. The unit is worth, at best, $700. I expected a much newer unit in much Better shape for $1450. And I did not expect to get screwed out of $150 for returning a unit that was a pile of crap and certainly was not what I believed it to be based on the amazon listing.

Totally disgusted.

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I am very happy with this laptop. The display is excellent, star-up and shut-down is very fast. After many year using windows, now I am very pleasant with this macbook pro.

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If you have also been DUPED into believing these "i7" computers are Quad core, then you have my sympathies and condolences, WHICH IS ALL APPLE WILL HELP WITH, OH NO WAIT THEY SUGGESTED I SELL IT ON CRAIGSLIST AND DUMP IT ON ANOTHER POOR UNSUSPECTING PERSON LIKE ME!. (SORRY APPLE I'M NOT AS CRUEL AS YOU ARE I WILL GIVE IT TO A FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS USING A G4 17" LAPTOP.... MAYBE IT WILL BE AN UPGRADE FOR THEM???? Mine wont even render video with After Effects CS4, as fast as my old 2007 imac did, this is a joke and I am starting to feel real contempt from Apple, whom I will never ever give another penny to. I sure hope that poor person above me who gave 5 stars doesn't do any 3D OR AVC video editing(SOMETHING YOU NEED A QUAD FOR). I'll wrap this up by stating never to buy Apple again after the way they treated me on the phone(the rep Matt even conceded to me he would have bought it thinking it was QUAD CORE) and then proceeded to hand me off to someone who acted like my paltry $2500 wasn't worth giving me the time of day over.. Good luck to all who buy THIS wreck of a machine from any site.

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I picked up one of these HP Probooks after seeing my girlfriends, which was provided by her employer. The pictures don't do this machine any justice. This notebook features solid contruction and a nice sleek brushed aluminum finish. I am in the gaming pc profession and needed a reliable notebook for after office tasks. The HP Probook has been a great product so far. I removed the stock hard drive and replaced it with a 128gb Samsung solid state drive with transfer kit (Norton Ghost). As expected the performance increase is simply remarkable. With the SSD installed, you would think i purchased a top of the line Core i7 series notebook. With the SSD purchased here from Amazon ($149) my total investment was $648. If you are handy with computers this model has incredible potential for performance and the looks to match. Bravo job HP!

The only con I see is the amount of bloatware that HP installs at the factory. It took me about 4 hours to remove the optional non necessary programs but for the price, it is still worth it. Also, even without the SSD upgrade, this machine is still very capable in its stock configuration. It is expandible from 4GB of RAM up to 8GB. There are no fingerprint readers or other security devices built in. The HP software suite offers a trial version of Norton Security, I removed that immediately and installed the always free "Microsoft Security Essentials" which I find quite adequate (plus i'm cheap).

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So after about 2 months with this device I still have zero complaints. HP is certainly not the same company it used to be 10 years ago. The Probook and Elitebook line is considered a business class device. What this means is as opposed to light home use (social media, email and web browsing) this device is designed for extensive daily use, as one would expect from a business computer. They are bit more solid in the construction than other HP models. I still beleive this is most likely the best possible notebook computer available today (Aug 2012) for under $500. Although many of you will use this notebook for home use. It is really a great device for business or school use. Another reviewer had commented about the screen being a bit thin and flimsy for their taste. I would have to respectfully disagree. This model does have a reletively thin screen, however the bezel that holds the screen is quite adequate. I was considering a [much more expensive] Sony model before purchasing this HP Probook. The Sony model had a wonderful thin screen but when you moved it... it felt extremely fragile. This particular screen has a nice 1/2 inch bezel to provide a solid feel even though the screen is nicely thinned. I think in comparison to other like model notebooks this Probook seems above par. There are certainly a slew of higher spec notebooks available today, however for the investment this i3 dual core (hyperthreaded quad core) sets the bar for others to follow. I am completely impressed with HP in this line of notebooks. Consider the price for the quality of the entire product, this is a hands down winner.

P.S. please don't post negative reviews for a product because USPS kicked the box down the street. Obviously you should return any product for an exchange if there is any damage. Also, I personally only purchase from Amazon directly OR a merchant that is "Fulfilled by Amazon" meaning it is shipped from an Amazon warehouse and not somebody's garage. Off the soapbox now...

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I'm going to start by saying that in the past I never thought much

of HP computers and have purchased a few over the years. Pulled the

trigger on this one mainly because of the rave reviews on Tonymac forums

as I was interested in running osx on it along side windows 7.

I've had this about 24 hours now but was on it all night last night so here

are some of my immediate thoughts. Like the title says, excellent for

the money. Keyboard is full size and love the numeric pad on the right.

The brushed aluminum is an extremely nice touch and looks amazing.

As soon as I plugged it in I wiped the hard drive clean and installed Mac OSX

and Windows 7 to dual boot which it does very nicely. Powers up quickly.

The 4GB seems like plenty for most people. Machine performs really snappy

I like it alot. It's not too heavy so traveling with it daily or longer

would not be a problem. One major thing I noticed is that it runs very cool.

I've had three other laptops over the years and they all ran so hot that you

couldn't keep them on your lap. I've also seen more than my share of clients

machines come in with burned up processors, boards, and hard drives from the

excessive heat. Don't think you're gonna see that with these new processors

they run super cool. Now for the cons. The screen is thin. I have

already seen one in existence with pressure damage. The battery latches

are flimsy and I would suggest being really gentle if you remove the battery

to avoid snapping something. Same with the rear access cover. Thin and flimsy.

I ordered a sleeve to put the laptop in so that other stuff in my briefcase

doesn't damage the laptop banging off it. All in all I'd say this is a great

choice for someone who needs a work and play machine in one and at this price

it's a no brainer.

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I bought this surprisingly inexpensive little powerhouse about a year ago. I did upgrade the memory to 8GB and I got an external hard drive for backups, but this little puppy still hums along quite nicely. I am a computational chemist and having multiple processors has proven handy as I can run small computational jobs on two or three processors and still surf the web or play video with no noticeable performance lags.

I have actually been disappointed by HP before. In particular, I found their pavillion line to be be under powered crap that breaks quite easily (for some reason, this was the only brand/model my parents would buy me as a teen and in college), so I was pretty skeptical about buying another HP product. I reasoned that since this was supposedly a business laptop, corporate customers wouldn't repeatedly buy the same crap they peddle to home users. That, the fact that this notebook got a lot of great reviews on another major online vendor convinced me and the relatively low price convinced me. I have been happier with this computer than any other I've owned except for one which I put together myself.

UPDATE:

I've been using this little guy for a bit over two years now. Last month I switched over to running Linux instead of Windows 7 and replaced the optical drive with a Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW. I made the new SSD my boot drive and things blaze right along (total boot time is about 12 seconds). I have a Windows 7 virtual machine stored on the SSD and it boots up in about 30s. Still loving this computer.

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I've been a HP fan for awhile. Our household has over multiple HP machines running (2 laptops and 3 PC). I decided to purchase the HP ProBook for its durability and quality.

Although the i3 processor isn't going to win any performance contest, it is suitable for most applications including Adobe Photoshop CS5, Lightroom and even video editing.

I was excited to make this purchase. However, had to return it for unexpected disappointment Loud and Constant FAN noise.

I have 2 pavilion laptops that is over 4-5yrs old and runs quietly til this day, thus made the same assumption when purchasing this probook.

Upon first day of usage, the fan would kick only after 10minute of use. And for those doubting, I have chill AC running at our house at 68 degrees...so I know it was not any kind of environmental heat causing the fan to kick in constantly.

I let it run for 2-3hrs with basic web browsing (checking emails, youtube) but was disappointed to hear and even feel the FAN turn on and stay on for 80% of the time.

I gave it second and third chance to cool down and try again next day. Same result.

Then another disappointment kicked in when I ran the DVD in the DVD writer. I simply put in a DVD movie and let it run.

The spinning motor noise and the fan noise made it unbearable to watch any movie on the laptop.

I was fairly disappointed with the experience and had no choice than to return it.

I will hope this has nothing to do with the whole HP computer business fiasco where they are cutting back on quality parts in order to make ends meet.

Either way, HP may have lost a customer... I may have to convert to another brand following as HP quality is now questionable.

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Laptop's Purpose I bought this lap top to do homework and take notes while in class. I also planned to surf the web pretty much on a daily basis. I might want to occasionally play a game or two.

Does it meet my expectations? Yes, laptop meets my expectations. It even exceeds them. The battery life on this is phenomenal. One thing I did immediately is put more RAM in the laptop. It might even be a bit of overkill. The 4GB that comes on the computer would be enough to handle pretty much anything you throw at this thing, aside from resource heavy games. You'll never run something like Skyrim or Battlefield on this laptop, but that's not a downside because you wouldn't purchase it for that reason. That being said, I'll breakdown what I think of this laptop piece by piece.

Overall Feel / Look of the Laptop: 5/5 The brushed aluminum look is one of my favorite looks. It doesn't show smudges or finger prints very easily. It's a good quality finish. I haven't seen any chipping or cracking anywhere on the exterior. Also, there is nothing flimsy about this laptop. It feels like a solid, high quality machine.

Weight: 4/5 This laptop weighs a little more than I had anticipated. However, if I would have read the description like I should have, I would have known the exact weight. It just feels heavier than it looks.

Size: 5/5 No oddities here. The size allows for a full keyboard and number pad, as well as a bright clean screen. It doesn't expand too much off the screen, which is a plus because it can fit in cases with more ease.

Inputs: 4/5 The keyboard is a bit fickle. There are some built in shortcuts on this laptop that I don't quite understand fully. For example, I have noticed when I'm typing a paper and I type anything that ends in "ound" it goes to save the document, which is just odd. The keyboard itself is well made with responsive buttons and they are spaced enough that even a sausage fingered neck beard like myself can type without a whole bunch of screw ups. The touchpad works just fine, however I use an auxiliary mouse on a day-to-day basis. Webcam works fine, offers a good picture. Microphone is actually really good, I can pick up a lecture crisp and clear even if I'm typing on the laptop and in the back or middle of the room.

Upgradeability: 5/5 I upgraded the ram with a couple of clicks. It is very easy to get into the hard drive bay if you were to ever want to swap out a SSD in the laptop. Windows 8 installed and runs just fine on this laptop.

Hardware: 5/5 The processor is a good processor for mobile computing. The wireless works really great and can pick up a signal within a pretty large range. Sound is great through on board speakers. Screen is bold and bright. Everything seems really well built. The ram is speedy. The hard drive is roomy and quick. There is a SD slot and plenty of USB ports. The disk drive is solid and has a pretty high read/write rate.

Overall, I would recommend this laptop to anyone who's budget it would fit in. Sure there are better laptops, but they are more expensive. But if you can afford this, I would say this is the best in the price rage.

Dell Studio 1737 17-Inch Laptop (Obsidian Black) Review

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I've had this laptop for 3 years and haven't had a single problem with it.

Taking into account I treat it very poorly that's pretty amazing.

The only down sides are that its very heavy and the graphics card is outdated.

I highly recommend it as a desktop replacement that allows for occasional moves.

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Previously having a refurbished dell studio from tigerDirect (worst company out there) that failed within a week, i contacted dell and they sent me a BRAND NEW dell studio at no extra charge.. there customer service was great even being i didnt order the dell from them. My new studio after having it for 4 years, being used every single day for games, or online browsing has worked GREAT. and today, FINALLY something has failed on it. The battery! Ive used it pretty rough for the last 4 years, i have even dropped it from the top of my bed to the floor on accident once and it still has never given me any problems, idk if its luck or what. I only noticed one difference between this studio on amazon and mine.. my processor is a 2.20GHz t6600. I would reccomend this laptop to anybody because of its reliability. The only DOWNSIDE to this laptop is the shitty speakers and the keyboard can act funky at times ! And the mouse pad is junk! but everybody i know has a mouse!

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I got this computer in October of 2009. With this being my first Dell computer ever I must say it is a definite step up from my former computer. I haven't had any issues with the computer itself, but with some of the software that was put on it (McAfee Security...I hate that stuff). I do A LOT of typing, and never had any issues with my keyboard. I use a USB mouse, so I cant say much on the touch pad.

I originally got this computer because I played online video games, along with web surfing, email, and word processing. I still have no issues with playing the game (World of Warcraft) though I don't personally play, my niece has played on this computer and it still performs wonderfully!

I cant talk it up enough and if I could get a second one for a reasonable price I would do it in a heartbeat. I want to have a second computer for my part time job and this would be my first choice. (Only want a second computer so I can work and the family can do their own things).

I doubt I will ever have another name brand other than Dell unless things would change in the company. I love this computer and I have had it for two and half years with NO ISSUES!

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I'm not a big computer guy...just give me a good screen and reasonbly fast execution and I'm happy

I went with this Dell laptop about 2 years ago because my first computer was a Dell desktop that was great; so I figured a Dell laptop was the way to go and didn't consider any other brand...I paid my $1000 bucks directly to Dell

Mind you i'm no tech-junkie...I don't stretch it any further than Word..E-mail..Shopping..and YouTube

BUT

I do type quite a bit...and this keyboard has started to fail after about 1 1/2 years....Constantly having to go back and

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ASUS 1225B-SU17-BK 11.6-Inch Laptop (Black) Reviews

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Asus has made a fantastic product at a great price. I previously owned an Eeepc 900 and loved it for about five years. I learned to use linux with it, I fell in love with Ubuntu using it and really got hooked on having a computer smaller than a pad of paper. I was worried that the Tablet would end Netbooks for good and hated the idea of a crummy throw away operating system made for cell phones, and incapatibility with windows. Then I heard Asus was coming out with this next-Gen netbook and I was excited. I have had it for a while now and feel it deserves a review. I Love It! It is so fast for its size and has tons of space. I run my website off of it and use it for writing papers, editing photos,watching movies and basic email/internet use.

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Before I begin I will provide a little more information about the product that should be given in the description.

The Windows Experience Index is 3.7. The individual ratings are as follows.

Processor 3.7

RAM 5.6

Graphics 4.3

Gaming Graphics 5.8

Primary hard Disk 5.6

The 320 GB HDD is partitioned into two partitions. One 99.9GB and the other 183GB. Not really sure why they did that but not really a negative.

The Netbook also comes with a TON of bloatware. Tons of ASUS apps such as a top dock, a special media sharing app, a BIOS updater, E-CAM (adding effects to the webcam) and a trial of TrendMicro AntiVirus. There might of been more that I forgot because I uninstalled most of them as soon as the device booted up.

Interestingly it also has a built in OS that you can quickly boot into by pushing the button next to the WiFi button. Good for quickly checking something on the internet.

The Netbook as a whole is very solid. The Keyboard is a little cramped but not bad seeing as it is a 11" screen. The backlight is very bright and crisp. The tracpad is a little over sensitive out of the box for my liking and the uni-button on the tracpad takes time getting used to.

The webcam is the usual low quality webcam but has a physical switch that blocks the camera and also a digital zoom button along with a on light for the paranoid.

Under the tracpad there is a on light, charging light, HDD light, WiFi light, and a caps lock light.

It has a app for sending media over WiFi to other devices but I don't have a device that supports it to test it out on.

Summery:

Good Excelent battery life (5+ hours of actual use), Decent keyboard, great performance for the price, built in operating system

Bad Amount of bloatware

Weird Partitioning of HDD.

I will update this review is anything breaks or goes wrong.

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Looking for a small PC..? If you have money I would suggest you get a Mac book, If not... maybe consider this one under $440. Happy with my purchased! So far.. One of the top netbooks that you can get under 12 inches for 2012. 4G Ram and 320 Hard Drive, pretty good for the size. This is perfect to people who loves to travel..like me. I don't want to bring my heavy laptop with me when I travel. Thin and light 3.2 lbs and faster than other netbooks who only have 1G or 2G RAM. So far my only complaint is the battery, it said on the box up to 7 hrs.. mine only last 4 1/2 or 5hrs at times on hybrid mode. Well no biggie...that's good enough for me thats a lot. I mean, battery consumption also depends on the task you are doing on the computer. Well if you are comparing this to Acer aspire one 722, Just to let you know, I bought the acer aspire one 722 before this one which has exactly the same specs but lasted only 15days, Gladly returned it..the power just did not turn on again. Lemon.. Do not get acer. This one is better.

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I wanted hardware that was this small cheap and packed. I needed high specs like 4Gig ram and decent processor. I didn't want to have to pay for windows since it gets flushed when I get it anyway but the general public hasn't accepted that M$ is on its was to being phased out anyway. Other that that all the hardware works great with Ubuntu and my requirements. Free shipping was fast and reliable. First week but running strong and looks slick too. I respect ASUS for kicking my ACER habit. I will be buying ASUS for my work horse Desktop now. I recommend this to anyone looking for a portable mobile with good specs and especially to open source computer nerds who could appreciate this piece of machinery. :D

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We got this for my wife to use while we travel, paid a little under $500 with software and a padded sleeve included. It was the only computer we could find that had decent speed & 4 gigs of RAM, was ultra portable that cost less than $800. We could have gotten a tablet but she felt the storage and ports of a real computer would be more useful. It's very compact and is surprisingly fast -with the 1.6 dual-core AMD chip it runs 64-bit Windows 7 no problem. The display screen is nicer (although much smaller) than the one on my $1100 Thinkpad. I thought the smaller 11.6" screen would bother me but it's not bad at all. It remains to be seen how well it will hold up while traveling throughout SE Asia for months on end, but I'm hopeful.

Asus G46VW-BHI5N43- i5-3210M 2.5Ghz - 14" Laptop - 8GB Memory Reviews

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List Price: $1,189.00
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Pros

This laptop is great for gaming as it has the ROG logo, I can run assassin's creed 3 on ultra setting with out drop in fps, very smooth( this only happened after I updated the drivers and learned how to use the nvidia GPU, before then it was automatically go on the intel GPU with was ok because it was an easy fix)

The sound is very clear and loud, but is only good for long playing times

The small screen makes it really great for portability (14 inch)

the i5 processer is prefect for playing games

The screen is a matte screen so it doesn't act like a mirror and reflect

The brushed aluminum for the palm rest is actually plastic so its way easier to clean

I like the stealth bomber look that this laptop has.

Windows 8 is great once you learn to get used to it.

has lots of usb ports and all of them are 3.0

Supports hdmi

The keys are very quite

the laptop stays very cool because it has fans on the back instead of having it on the bottom,its a great asset for gamers.

No finger prints!!! the plastic on the casing is matte as well as the screen so it stays very clean for the most part.

easy to add more RAM.

Cons

The screen brightness is not that strong so its impossible to use this laptop outside on a bright day.

The screen res. is not the best.

The sound has virtually has no Bass, headphones and/or speakers are recommend.

It is hard to upgrade. it is hard to change parts because you'll have to take apart the whole laptop. No easy access.

Over all this is a great laptop for the price.

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Asus ROG laptops have always been high risk machines because it's like having a very small high performance vehicle. So you have a lot more under the hood to worry about going wrong, as opposed to something slower and simple. The first I ever owned back in 2009 was just awful, first the mouse pad went including the mouse pad buttons, no driver fix, nothing. Then the DVD burner spit out all discs when trying to burn, would read some for gaming. Then the screen would just go black for no reason. Driver update never helped. Through the years after I tried some of the G71 series, and others with the same problems. Right out of the box, smashed keys, the infamous horrible Centrino Wireless Card (which this has), always dropped or just would be very very slow. I had taken back several of these machines based on these glitches.

Well when this design was released (the bigger ones), with the new cooling system, body (stealth bomber look), and other modifications, I was intrigued. But I still wouldn't pay the price for one, because of lack of trust towards the machine. So finally in May i decided to get this one from Best Buy. Seeing that is was nearly 1300$ on here, and on sale for 799$ there I couldn't pass it up. Especially for what it offered. The Nvidia GTX 660m is one beast of a card. This thing games great and stays very cool. One side pushed out air for the CPU, while the other pushes out hot air for the GPU, very good engineering. So why three stars? Here's a list of why.

No DVD drive is not a big deal especially for the size and portability, but using my portable one when need can be tedious.

The horribly slow 5400RPM HDD is just ludicrous for a machine with this much power, and the I5 does have a lot. It's on par with my Intel Core 2 Quad in my gaming Desktop. So kudos for that. But I don't feel like upgrading it.

Internal battery, good battery life, but bad bad bad idea in about 2 years when it starts to dwindle away. Replacing it will be impossibly expensive.

Not the best keyboard, you really have to straing (it seems to type fast) and it doesn't pick up keystrokes quick enough, and the pushing space bar issue is a real thing. Lots of people have had this issue, myself included.

Good speaker, but yet the strange crackling before playing them, does exist.

The machine can become possessed and just shut down on it's own, right in the middle of transferring, reading a web page, whatever, it will just boom. Shut down. Thus far starts right back up, but for how long. And is this a windows 8 issue? Time will tell.

It uses both the Intel 4000 and the 660m GTX, so you can right click on your game icon and choose which to use, or configure it in other ways to use the GPU you want. Or just let it pick for you. The only problem is you have to keep updates for both GPUS. The problem is when I updated the Nvidia Driver it would crash all the time. So I dropped it back to the original out of the box driver and it works just fine. So I would say just stick with it. Runs just fine.

Again with the Centrino Wireless known for being bad from even years back. Fluctuates far to much so I took the wireless Netgear adapter from my Desktop and it works great. Thought I would rather just use what's in it, instead of the adapter poking out of the side.

The HDMI is very quirky, sometimes it will just turn black and lose signal for no reason. Or freeze your picture. No answers for this.

I know it sounds like a lot of complaining and I suppose it is. But I like the machine enough because it really does do everything I need it to do. But it is very stubborn like trying to train a puppy to use the bathroom outside. Sometimes. But especially for the price and the specs I think it's definitely worth the hassle. Lets just hope it doesn't die completely. Which is my fear, like with my first ROG laptop in 2009. I must also add it runs very quiet and cool. I'm anxious to play Lost Planet 3 and see how it performs on it, since Capcom puts out some pretty graphically intensive games. Also wanting to play Castlevania Lords Of Shadow. After playing the demo it looked 10 times better then on any console, also it would just be fun to play it on here. Btw backlit keyboard is great.

Other games I have I've played on here flawless.

Spec Ops The Line

Alan Wake

Dead Space 3

Alice Madness Returns-Beautiful graphical game.

Battlefield 3, although it has compatibility issues with windows 8.

Resident Evil 5-Flies through it like a hot knife through butter.

Dishonored-Great

Crysis 3, looks great, but I just didn't care for it.

So if you can deal with the usual high end laptop quirks then get it. I have a gaming desktop too, but rarely use it, the one advantage to it is it's full 1080p, while this isn't, but this is still something you can take on the go. So I like it enough to keep it. But the 3 stars stands because I feel these (bugs) should not exist, not in this day and age. Happy gaming!!

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I picked this laptop up at Walmart for $350 (What a Steal!). Its fast and has lots of cool features. This laptop did not have a DVD burner or disk drive, but I knew this before hand. ALWAYS DO YOUR RESEARCH! The speakers were fairly loud at 50%, I couldn't see a need for me to ever need to go to 100% volume, because it gets LOUD. I also like how slim it is. I would recommend this laptop to anyone!

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I purchased this item and received it in a timely manner. However, 34 days after receiving it, the backlight was going out, etc. I contacted seller and was told that it was over 30 days and I had to return it to the manufacturer. When I contacted Lenovo, and gave them the serial number and model number, I was told it was a year old on December 28, 2012 so the year warranty had expired also. I have no recourse for the issues with this computer and Amazon won't even assist me. I've very disappointed in Amazon, and will not buy anything like this from them again.

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Bought it for the wife for her birthday. Great value but could use light colered keys with dark letters/numbers for ease of sight.