Pros: Comfortable Keyboard, Fast, Lightweight, Long Battery Life, Powerful, Quality Display
I wanted a laptop with a battery that would last through a cross-country flight, five hours minimum. I've already used it for about 3.5 hours on a flight with nearly half the battery remaining, so it passed that test with flying colors.<br ><br >Light weight and price less than about $800 were secondary desires, and this system is both. I never thought I'd buy a Lenovo computer, because the prices always seemed inflated. This system, however, is priced competitively with similar offerings from Dell and HP. Unlike those, it came with Windows 7 Professional. The PC World review really pointed me toward this one. The keyboard is great; it felt essentially as comfortable as the desktop keyboards I'm accustomed to.<br ><br >Using the 12" screen, of course, is not at all like using a typical desktop screen. A larger screen always implies more weight and less battery life, though, so I can't see any way to improve this without compromising my other goals. The 1366x768 resolution lets you fit plenty of content into the space available, and the display is crisp enough to make it comfortable to view even below the maximum brightness.<br ><br >My use is not very computationally-intensive: I mainly used it to view simple web sites and connect to remote systems over the network. While a simple CPU benchmark came up predictably low, actual use felt quite snappy. Web browsing, in particular, had none of the sluggishness I sometimes see in theoretically-faster desktop systems. I did not test any intensive graphics use, so I can't comment on that angle.<br ><br >Overall, I could not be more satisfied with this as a travel laptop. If your computing needs are relatively light, it might even suffice as a desktop replacement given an external monitor.
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