Lenovo U110 | Introduction

Lenovo U110 | Introduction

Until 2005, few people had heard about the company Lenovo, but then after all the mass media about buying the company computer unit IBM, and on Russia's market gradually began to appear notebooks under this Chinese brand. At first these were isolated instances, but gradually more and more products under the brand name Lenovo could be seen on the shelves. Today we will consider a laptop in a series of U.

This 11-inch ultraportable notebook, which allows working with documents, e-mail to the mission, and enjoy movies and music on vacation. Detailed characteristics Lenovo U110 are presented in the table.

Features Lenovo U110

Processor Intel Core2 Duo L7500 (1,6 GHz), 4 MB cache, FSB 800 MHz

Chipset Intel GM965 Express Chipset + ICH8M

Memory 2048 MB DDR2-667 MHz (up to 3 GB)

HDD 120 GB (4200 rpm), IDE interface

Optical drive External DVD-RW Super Multi

Display 11,1 "WXGA (1366 x 768) LED Glade

Video Intel GMA X3100, up to 384 MB of RAM

Audio Realtek ALC888S, built-in stereo speakers 1,5 W

Network Interfaces LAN: 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet

Wi-Fi: Link 4965AG (IEEE802.11a/b/g)

Bluetooth 2.0

I / O Ports 1 x VGA

1 x Microphone / line input

1 x headphone / line out

1 x IEEE1394

1 x RJ-45

3 x USB 2.0

Power supply 4-cell Lithium-Ion Battery 1250 mAh (up to 2 hours of battery life)

7-mi elemental lithium-ion battery is an additional 3950 mAh (up to 6 hours of battery life)

Input device Full-sized keyboard

Touch-pad

OS Vista Home Premium

Size 275 x 196 x 18,4 - 22,4 mm

Weight 1,06 kg

Warranty 2 years.

Lenovo U110 | On the packaging and not only

Laptop arrived Received THG.ru in a small black-and-orange box with a convenient carrying handle.

In all facets of boxes bearing the corporate logo products with silver letters, and on the orange face, we found a sticker with the number of notebook models, detailed technical specifications, serial and serial number. There is also a great logo Intel, shows on the basis of one's CPU is built laptop. On the black granite marked stamping, as the upper lid.

Opened the box, editors THG saw, apart from the notebook, packed in polyethylene and polyurethane foam sides, a narrow brown box, which, actually was the so-called equipment. Frankly speaking, equipment we were surprised not only by the presence of some very needed in the devices, but also the lack of critical, in our view, objects. Let us examine this in more detail. The bundled attended an excellent external optical drive with connection to USB (and powered from this bus, which is important in the way).

The drive is capable of both read and write discs of all formats other than Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. In addition, the drive is made of the same matte soft plastic that myself a laptop. At the top of the drive manufacturer's company logo is placed and there is a blue LED, which shows that the drive has power and it is enough. Tray and the front panel like a standard notebook drive.

The panel is an orange LED that shows the state of the drive and the button to eject the tray from the shell. On the side panels adorn polished metal inserts with perforation. Reduce a drive there is nothing remarkable - four rubber feet to prevent sliding on the polished surfaces and four information labels. Rear - only the USB connector type B, used for connecting the drive to a laptop or computer. Accordingly, the cable was attached to the drive type 2A - B.

What does this mean? This means that when working with an external drive, so to speak, in an open field, that is, from the notebook battery is a very big chance that one USB port not "be acquired". Knowing in advance that one USB port is able to issue a 5 V and current of 100 mA, the probability of becoming a hundred percent certainty.

So that is guaranteed to take a drive in the field, you must use a second USB plug for additional current, much-needed drive when running on battery laptop. Also worth noting is a feature of this drive, as getting an external power supply, not dependent on the state of the notebook battery, as evidenced by the connector on the right side of the drive, but included a laptop power supply to it, we did not find a connector from the power supply the notebook did not fit in size. Hence this power supply can be purchased separately. However, such a function of the optical drive Editorial THG not seem necessary, that is, we could not imagine a situation in which would take power from an external adapter.

What software preinstalled on a laptop? Because third-party software packages include Microsoft Office 2007 (trial version for 60 days) and anti-virus McAfee (also a version for review). Of course, Lenovo offers its own utility. The main, perhaps, be called Lenovo Care, which provides a centralized interface for accessing the functions of all the others. From here you can quickly customize a power plan, a backup, create recovery disks to restore the system state from the checkpoint. Also in the utility granted access to the system service functions, such as defragmenting.

This fact should appeal to people who are intensively exploited laptop in field conditions.

Also in the box found the power supply is very small in size with polished inset on the upper side of the hull and with LED usual blue. Cable from the power supply is quite long, about two meters, and the cord is approximately the same length, so when you work on a laptop computer from the wall outlet does not have what is called, sit 'nose in the wall. "

One can see that the manufacturer does not skimp on the details. Moreover, we were surprised not to find a set of mouse and some cover. In principle, the manufacturer could be ruined on some inexpensive "bonuses" for potential consumers of its products. From the pleasant and, importantly, practical "bonuses" worth noting napkin to wipe the screen and glossy keyboard notebook.

Further, we found three disks with software and a few booklets with guidelines. In the present paper form: user manual in Russian, a guide to restore the operating system using the OneKey Recovery Center in five languages (Russian language there), safety manual and warranty information in Russian, a reminder of the initial setup as a small poster Again, in Russian, and thanks from the company's products for purchase of its products. It should draw your attention to a memo from the initial configuration notebook. When buying a first read this memo, because it is in her set with your laptop.

Consider drives carefully. On the first disk to be supplied with a laptop licensed operating system Windows Vista Home Premium, which is confirmed by the sticker on the underside of the notebook.

The second disc contains the drivers for notebook components only under Windows Vista operating system, and two remarkable text files in both Chinese and English with a detailed description of the installation of drivers on the laptop. So if you decide to install another operating system, you will need, above all, to attend to finding drivers for this OS, but now only after this "bear" Windows Vista.

As an experiment, and to prepare a notebook to the tests, we reinstall the operating system from the CD. This procedure was not difficult.

On the third drive found some interesting programs to make more use of standard equipment laptop. Of particular note are the program

VeriFace.