Derek N.
Joined on 09/09/09
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Great laptop, slow/unusable website

Pros: These are great laptops, decently well built, easy to work on, fairly quick for general business, school, and office type work.
Cons: Lenovo's driver website is absolutely terrible, by far one of the worst I have ever had to use. It is often down and always incredibly slow, by slow I mean it takes 10-15 minutes to get the driver page for your model up, then another 5-10 minutes to get each driver download "STARTED". This has been the situation for the last three plus years and it's getting to the point I maybe purchasing other laptops for my business in the future.
Alright

Pros: Low power consumption, decent performance. Runs Folding@Home faster than a 9500GT due to more shaders.
Cons: Slower than the generally cheaper 9500GT in gaming.
Overall Review: Not bad, but Nvidia just isn't bringing it to the table this round, especially with the lower end.
Great when they work

Pros: USB 3.0 is quick and transfers fast, hard drives are easy to install.
Cons: Out of 4 of these, not a single one will work on a USB 2.0 port, I've tested this on 7 different computers, they work flawlessly on any USB 3 port I've tried.
Overall Review: Odd problem, not sure what would cause that being USB is supposed to be backwards and forwards compatible natively. QC problem? Design problem? Either way considering the cost it's not worth returning them.
Decent low end psu, SHORT cables

Pros: It's a relatively decent low end psu.
Cons: The cables are incredibly short, not even long enough for the new fairly small mid tower atx cases I'm trying to use them in, short by about 4"-6" for bottom mount.
Overall Review: Wont work for my intended purpose, wish power supply companies would start listing their cable lengths.
Could be nice maybe

Pros: Decent quality built laptop at a decent price.
Cons: Cannot unlock bios to allow it to boot off the optical drive (tried on 6 units). This blocks from installing other operating systems along with booting discs for things like memory testing, data recovery, encryption removal etc.
Overall Review: I'll be returning these immediately this is completely unacceptable.
Unfortunate specification

Pros: Decent priced, decent sounding speaker set.
Cons: Claims 90 watts... Yet power supply is 12.5 V ~ 2A ... So supposedly you can make 90 watts of RMS output power from only 25 watts coming into the system. So needless to say the 90 watt power rating is ridiculous, don't depend on it being accurate at all. This is sadly becoming very common in audio equipment.
Overall Review: Bass is alright, sounds like a small subwoofer should boomy and decently loud but not accurate to sonic reproduction. Satellites have decent mid range, upper mid bass range is lacking, highs are a bit shrill. Overall I would not complain considering the price. I just felt the advertisements were a bit overshot and it should be made note of.
