Lenovo made many great notebooks/ultrabooks these day and great build Quality. Lenovo also launching new notebooks/ultrabook in the market and the purchasing rate is highest level. Today we take a look at Lenovo IdeaPad U310.The 13.3" U310 follows the attractive and more expensive 2011 IdeaPad U300s. The IdeaPad U310 features Lenovo's book or journal design with a lid and bottom that look like a journal's covers, while the sides are finished in contrasting white to look like a book's pages. The unibody casing is aluminum and it's available in a pale blue, pale pink (called Cherry Blossom) and gray. Despite the cliche gender oriented color options, we'd pick the blue or pink over the gray because they're more interesting and striking. The laptop has a 1366 x 768 glossy display, Intel HD 4000 graphics and an Intel Core i5-3317U 1.7GHz CPU, a staple of the Ultrabook world. The U310 is also available with a Core i3 for less money, but we recommend the Core i5 for its better performance and Turbo Boost. The Lenovo has 4 gigs of DDR3 1600MHz RAM, and a 500 gig 5400 RPM hard drive with a 32 gig SSD drive for caching. The notebook has single band Intel WiFi 2200BGN with WiDi and a 10/100 Ethernet jack but no Bluetooth (c'mon Lenovo!). A webcam, 3 USB ports (2 USB 3.0), full size HDMI, 3.5mm audio and an SD card slot.U310 is a step up from the U300s, that’s certainly not the case, which you can tell as soon as you touch its plastic insides. Mind you, the U310 is a reasonably attractive laptop, with a metal outer shell that’s available in a range of colours. Obviously, being the macho chaps that we are, we went for a hot pink model – just to mix things up a little. But if that’s not your cup of tea or laptop colour of choice, you can also get the IdeaPad U310 in bright blue or black. Lifting the lid reveals a startlingly white keyboard tray with contrasting black keys. Lenovo usually makes fantastic laptop keyboards, but the one used here is something of a disappointment. The Chiclet-style keys are fine for the most part, but their layout is compromised to fit the 13in chassis. The enter, backspace and page navigation keys are much smaller than usual and have been shunted to the far edge, meaning it will take some practice before your word documents are completely free of accidental key presses. There’s also a huge amount of flex in the keyboard tray that manifests itself with even the lightest touch.The glass all-in-one touchpad is excellent, mainly thanks to its large size and responsive feel. The smooth glass texture occasionally creates friction that slows down your finger, but for the most part it felt accurate and even responded well to multi-touch gestures. The buttons don’t have a lot of travel, but are responsive.The 13.3in display has a rather sizable glossy white bezel, but the surprisingly bright backlight makes sure your eyes are drawn to the screen rather than what’s around it. The 1,366x768 resolution is standard fare for most mid-range Ultrabooks. Tight viewing angles mean you need to be straight-on to get the best image quality.Actually, let's clarify that. The AccuType keys you see here aren't the dense, pillowy buttons used on ThinkPads of yore. Rather, they're very similar to the island-style keyboards you'll find on newer ThinkPad laptops, which just made the transition to a new layout. That caveat aside, the shape, pitch and overall feel of the keys is comparable to what you'd get on a ThinkPad. Particularly after testing Ultrabook after Ultrabook with shallow keys, it's refreshing to get hands-on with something whose buttons actually move when you press them. They also have a slightly textured finish, which makes it that much easier to anchor your keys while you're typing.The IdeaPad U310 has a 3 cell, 46Wh Lithium Ion battery that's sealed inside. Lenovo claims up to 7 hours of productivity usage, and in our tests the laptop managed 311 minutes . That's not wildly impressive for a lower power machine, but it's not that far below the 6 hour average.Nonetheless, this is not a perfect keyboard. For one, as stocky as the individual keys are, the underlying panel isn't nearly as sturdy -- we could feel the deck give a little as our word-per-minute rate started to pick up. More importantly, though, the pleasant spacing between the keys seems to come at the expense of non-letter buttons, such as Enter, Tab and Caps Lock. All of these auxiliary keys are undersized, and, particularly if you're not used to the layout, you might find that your finger lands on the Delete key when you meant to hit Backspace.The Lenovo IdeaPad U310 is a well made Ultrabook with a premium casing and a unique, stylish design (no echoes of the MacBook Air here). It has a better than average keyboard, a very usable trackpad, good support tools and an attractive price.Overall it performs decent in all the test and prove its quality build.
Let take a look at BenchMarks result...........
- Good Display Screen.
- Good performance.
- Design.
- Affordable price.
- Good features.
- USB 3.0 + Ethernetport.
- Heavy.
- Almost No limited upgrading option.
- Keyboard.
