The IdeaPad U Series notebook artfully blends the latest technology with fresh, inspiring designs. The U110 notebook has won wide acclaim, including best-of-show honors for notebooks at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. And the new U330, in glossy indigo blue with 13.3" screen, is destined to be tomorrow’s classic. It’s portable, sensibly styled and well-equipped with the latest technologies.
These sleek, smart and ultraportable notebooks promise reliable performance. You’ll also enjoy the latest capabilities you expect from a high-quality, well-engineered Lenovo product. Who says you can’t be stylish, productive and cutting-edge? Now you can have it all and look great doing it.
Specifications:
- Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 Processor (2.00GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache)
- Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1
- 13.3" WXGA (1280×800) LED Backlight LCD
- Intel GMA 4500 MHD, ATI Radeon HD 3450 258MB Switchable Graphics
- 3 GB PC3-8500 (1066 MHz) DDR3 RAM
- 320GB 5,400 RPM HD
- DVD-RW
- Intel 5100 abgn WiFi Card
- Bluetooth
- 1.3 MP Webcam and Mic
- 6-cell Li-Ion 56 WHr Battery
- 1-year warranty, 6 months for battery
Review By slashgear
The U330 comes in either glossy indigo blue or ebony black, and measures just 0.9-inches thick. Powered by an Intel Centrino processor, there’s also Dolby Home Theatre and touch-sensitive controls, plus an HDMI port and optional built-in DVD burner. Thanks to the LED backlight for the display and switchable discrete/onboard graphics, battery life is rated at up to 5hrs. Security is catered for by VeriFace, which uses the webcam to recognise individual faces and unlock files.
Review By laptoping
Other features include 802.11a/b/g/n wireless and Ethernet LAN connections, a built-in 1.3MP web camera, a pair of stereo speakers, Dolby Home Theater sound technology, HDMI and VGA outputs, two USB ports, an ExpressCard slot, 6-in-1 media card reader, and Firewire port.
Review By notebookreview
At 2.00GHz, the P7350 in the U330 is a little slower than other Penryn Core 2 Duos. Nonetheless, the P7350 still provides enough computational power as evident in the SuperPi, wPrime, and MATLAB benchmarks. With notebooks, the graphics card is usually the bottleneck in performance as evident in the 3DMark 06 and Vista Index benchmark scores. The U330 won’t be able to run graphically intense games like Crysis comfortably at high settings. But for the occasional game of Half-Life 2, CS:S, or DotA, the ATI HD 3450 with its 256MB GDDR3 RAM gets the job done relatively well. All benchmarks were performed at native resolution.
Review By jrin.net
This laptop has it’s pros and cons when it comes to build quality. The keyboard and bottom chassis (everything but the screen) is very sturdy, and there’s no flexing (except the bit mentioned earlier, in the middle of the keyboard). A commenter in my ‘coming soon’ post asked if the screen seemed to have a solid frame, and unfortunately, it’s quite easy to flex and bend — a bit of a disappointment for me. If I hold the top of the screen in one hand (at the webcam), and push in the middle of the back of the screen, it will bow in a bit. If I grab each side of the screen, and use my fingers to push in the middle (from the back), it too is pretty easy to flex.
Price $1,249.00 at shop.lenovo.com
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