Product Details
- Item Weight: 3.6 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- ASIN: B005E7MI40
- Item model number: E420
By : Lenovo
List Price :
Price : $549.99
You Save : $150.00 (21%)
Product Description
High-performance Intel Core i5 processor. Offers extra power to handle today's complex software. Extra-large 4GB memory lets you run your most demanding programs. 500GB hard drive holds thousands of songs, photos and documents. Wireless-N for high-performance, cable-free networking. Lets you access wireless networks to share files, surf the Web and exchange email. Can provide improved range and speed within a Wireless-N (draft 802.11n) network, and is also compatible with 802.11b/g networks. High-speed wired networking is supported, too. Compact 14" diagonal LCD screen. LED backlighting permits a thinner and more energy-efficient screen. Plays and burns CDs and DVDs. HDMI port lets you view videos and photos on your HDTV. (HDMI cable sold separately.) Spill-resistant keyboard for recovery from minor accidents. Integrated Fingerprint Reader helps keeps confidential files more secure. Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Technical Details
- High-performance Intel Core i5 processor. Offers extra power to handle today's complex software.
- Extra-large 4GB memory lets you run your most demanding programs.
- 500GB hard drive holds thousands of songs, photos and documents
- Wireless-N for high-performance, cable-free networking. Lets you access wireless networks to share files, surf the Web and exchange email.
- Can provide improved range and speed within a Wireless-N (draft 802.11n) network, and is also compatible with 802.11b/g networks.
- High-speed wired networking is supported, too.
- Compact 14" diagonal LCD screen. LED backlighting permits a thinner and more energy-efficient screen
Thinkpad Edge E420 1141-A24 /Core i5-2410M With Turbo Boost 2.0 /14" LED-Backlit / 4GB memory /500 GB HDD /Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit /Spill-resistant keyboard /Integrated Fingerprint Reader
Customer Reviews
Great little laptop that does most things well. It's not going to be a good gaming laptop due to the relatively underpowered integrated Intel 3D graphics, somewhat slow HDD, and small screen, but for general web surfing, streaming video playback, "light" gaming (i.e. Flash games), non-intensive photo editing (Photoshop Elements), and drawing in Inkscape (if you can stand the small screen), it's more than adequate.
I purchased my unit at 0ffi¢e Depot during the Black Friday sale week. In the course of my research, I found this identical unit was available direct from Lenovo's website during the summer for a price under 450 with various coupons.
And just really quick, my list of negatives with this unit (which may not be negatives to you, depending...) and rational behind my 4-star rating:
- no option for a lighted keyboard or keyboard downlight
- no option for higher resolution screen
- no numeric keypad, not even in the traditional laptop sense of pressing Fn+NumLock to switch the right side of the alpha-keyboard into numeric mode (this is a feature I used occasionally).
- no option for a BluRay drive
- no USB 3.0 -- not that I have a need for this yet, but it's a standard feature on many competing laptops
I liked this laptop so much, I purchased two E420 units (identical 1141-A24 models) and gave one to my dad, who has been using a well-worn IBM T-43 ThinkPad I handed down to him. I had a chance to compare the old school workhorse side-by-side with the E420 and made the following general observations:
- The anti-reflective qualities of the matte-finish screens is comparable, but the E420 is brighter by a wide margin
- The T43 had an "old school" 4:3 aspect ratio, vs. the wide screen 16:9 of the E420. This results in a narrower but taller screen for the older computer, but with a denser resolution (1400x1050) and more "room" vertically on the desktop. For most web surfing, photo editing and drawing, this older 4:3 is still the preferable aspect ratio.
- The E420 is about ¾" wider than the T43, despite the T43 having a "bigger" 14.1-inch screen (this, again due to the aspect ratio)
- Whereas the T43 had a parallel port, modem, PCMCIA slot and a PS2 Mouse Port, the E420 boasts an SD card reader, Bluetooth 3.0, 4 USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, eSATA, and a 34mm ExpressCard port. Similar features include fingerprint reader, TouchPoint controller, VGA-out, DVD-RW, and an Ethernet port.
- Build quality still leans in favor of the old T43, but the E420 is no slouch. The T43 was nearly around ¾ pound heavier, but the body was slightly thinner and the screen more rigid. The E420 body feels "hollow" because it's just not as densely packed, and probably doesn't have the substantial metal subframe of the T43. However, the E420 is far and away stiffer and more rigid than my 2-year old Lenovo value-line G530, which has a flexy screen and feels "squishy" (like the bottom is pressing in) when I grip it.
- The E420 has a larger touchpad and a keyboard that's closer to a real PC keyboard, not the "chiclet" style keys with minimal movement that the T43 features.
The E420's Boot time is 35 seconds to the logon screen, and with a quick finger swipe over the fingerprint reader (this one works quickly and reliably!), it's fully booted and ready to use in under a minute. The Windows Experience Index registers at 5.7, singling out the hard disc as the bottleneck in the system speed, followed by the RAM read/write speeds. So a fast SSD would only marginally improve the overall WEI score, and couldn't make too much of an improvement to the boot times.
The screen bright screen is great in the window-lit room I primarily use, and viewing angles are very good side-to-side. There is a sweet spot in the tilt that inverts quickly if not adjusted just so. Yet I find it acceptable for close-in viewing. Sound quality is decent, though not audiophile quality -- nothing worse than your average clock radio.
Lenovo has placed most of the system functions (screen brightness, volume, web cam on/off, etc.) to the top-row function keys, then went one step further: they made the function key require a two-key press to activate (for example, instead of hitting F5 to refresh or F11 for full screen, I now have to press Fn-F5 or Fn-F11), but the auxiliary commands are now single-key press (press JUST F5 for the web cam). It's a little something to get used to, and it's a situation where a keyboard backlight would have been appreciated in darker settings to help me find my way.
All ports to the sides of the body, with the exception of the RJ45 jack. Thank goodness, no audio ports sticking out of the front edge. If you opt for the optional 9-cell battery, it would protrude out the rear by about an inch. And no more confusing the headphone port for the mic port: this computer uses a single integrated "smart" port, though I suppose it requires a new single plug (or USB) headset for my Skype calls.
I am using this laptop successfully with HP's Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse, which requires Windows 7 + an up-to-date network chipset, and doesn't require any port-sucking USB dongles.
The computer comes a little bit bloated with Lenovo's software, most of which is good, some of which is unnecessary. Fortunately, my biggest headache, Norton Anti-Virus, was easily removable via ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS. The others you'll have to pick through depending on what Lenovo features you'll find valuable. Lenovo even saw fit to ship this unit with Google Chrome installed, which manages to make an appearance before Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a chance to pop up. However, in my case, it was Chrome v12 (current version is 15), and it wouldn't automatically upgrade itself. I had to uninstall Chrome and download a clean version of the current software.
A rundown of the included Lenovo software, most of which is optional to keep installed and/or use:
- A quick boot utility that speeds boot times
- An auto-lock feature that, if no inputs are sensed after a user-determined amount of time, turns on the web cam and looks for a face. If none is detected, it password locks the laptop.
- An orientation sensing utility that allows the user to turn the unit sideways to read PDFs and other documents, automatically rotating those docs to fit the portrait view.
- A recovery utility to burn a recovery disc from the hard drive's recovery partition.
- The fingerprint reader software, which on this unit works reliably, usually on the first swipe, and is quick.
Last thing worth mentioning: if you want a number pad and can stand an extra ~1½ in width, a version of the 15.5-inch E520 model has exactly the same spec (actually, with a faster 2430M processor) for almost exactly the same price. You'll get the num pad, but you'll still be stuck with the stock 1366x768 resolution, with no 1600x900 option available on Lenovo's website).
For a computer I use daily for web surfing, video watching, some light Inkscape drawing, Photoshop Elements editing, and lightweight gaming, the E420 fits the bill in terms of price, value/quality, and speed/functionality. It's by no means cutting edge, it certainly isn't the best looking nor the smallest/lightest of the bunch, but it's designed to be carried around and used in any number of tasks with a minimum of headache. Five to six hour battery life is to be expected (unless under heavy video playback), and 9 hours are achievable with an upgrade to the extended 9-cell battery.
Compared to my 3 year old Acer 5515 this is a rocketship.
As configured the WEI is 5.9, the HDD and memory are the bottlenecks.
Keyboard is amazing, the touchpad is also great. The trackpoint, thaat is new to me and I am still working on it.
Startup from fully off to any webpage is less than 1 minute.
From sleep it is just seconds.
The ThinkVantage Utilities are nice, makes updating very easy.
I will be increasing the memory to max, and am considering a SSD for future installation.
I dont replace computers that often, every 2 to 3 years, I fully expect this to last that long.
I would, and have, reccomend this to anyone.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar