The Lenovo 3000 N100 widescreen notebook is a new, sleek, innovative notebook line that offers worry-free computing experience and solid performance at a great value.
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(+) Size, Portability, Looks, Speed, Ease of Installing New Stuff (-) The mousepad sensitive, easy to fingermark the product, loud fan noises, odd keyboard shortcuts
A review by clivefallon on Lenovo 3000 N100 0768 March 1st, 2007
Author's product rating:
Speed
Fast
Look & Feel
Good
Comfort & Portability
Good
Robustness & Durability
Good
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
High Spec, Powerful, Comfortable to use, System management
Disadvantages:
Small touch pad, poor mouse buttons, poor sound from speakers
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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In 2005 Lenovo took over IBMs thinkpad business and have since continued to build their own branded PCs and Laptops that are aimed at a lower market, i.e. cheaper starting prices than previous IBM models, moving away from business users, more towards small business and personal users.
This review is based on the Lenovo I have borrowed for a couple of months for a new Web project I'm working on. It belongs to a mate and I am reviewing it based upon my experience. This review will not contain comparisons with other Laptops. Thanks for your attention.....
The first two things that struck me when I saw this laptop were the looks, and the screen. Some call it dark gray, I call it matt black, with a silver cover and hinge covers this unit looks sleek. Not the best about but its not bad for a relatively new business (even if they did take over from IBM). From opening the laptop you will be stuck by the keyboard and moreso by the amount of space around it. I prefer some room to rest my hands at the side of the keyboard as well as the wrist area and this certainly does it for me. There's a nifty little fingerprint scanner, I couldnt tell you if this works or how accurate it is as I 've never tried it.
One of my favourites on this Laptop are the little icons that tell you where the side ports are. No more tilting and searching for that USB or memory card slot. The little picture shows you exactly where it is without having to move.
On the left hand side there is a single USB, firewire, ethernet, PC card and SD memory card slot. On the right there are 3 USB ports and audio connections. on the back panel are D-Sub and S-Video connections. Round the front are 4 little LEDs to display WIFI, Bluetooth, Battery and Sleep modes.
The Laptop feels quite sturdy. There are fairley chunky hinges and it's not the lightest Laptop i've used so i am confident in it's ability to take a beating, although I'm not prepared to try it. I din't think it has the anti-shock capability of some laptops available but that is probably reflected in the price.
The keyboard is a little cramped but I have done a lot of typing and haven't found this to be a problem. Now that I am used to it's size I am typing away fairley quickly and not having to delete and correct mistakes.
The screen is 15.4 inch and I have the resolution set at 1280 x 800 and I find this a good size for most jobs I am doing, even watching DVDs. The picture is very sharp but the brightness no so good.
The speakers leave a lot to be desired. Don't try to watch a good movie unless you're using headphones or plugged into an external speaker system.
Connectivity - The Laptop I am using has a built in 56k modem, wifi enabled, bluetooth, ethernet connection and firewire. There is a button to disable the wireless connections (wifi and Bluetooth).
The CD tray is actually a double layer DVD burner, maybe a little overkill for a laptop in my opinion, but handy to have I suppose.
Now, from what I gather, this laptop has a 1.8Ghz Intel Core Duo processor, 512Mb ram, A GE Force graphics card and an 80 Gb hard drive. I have to say I have played a couple of games including FIFA07, Deer Hunter and Settlers 2 and they've ran well, very well. I don't sopend a lit of time playing games though so can't give a good review of the graphics card. I'm currently working on some web stuff that uses Mysql and php and I'm passing large quantities of data across networks to try and break the site I'm working on. The laptop is handling large volumes of wifi traffic fine with no loss of data yet.
While I work i do listen to music and I've not noticed any problems with the playback when running memory and CPU intense applications such as virus scanning software.
Most of the time I'm working from mains power but working from the battery, doing the type of work I've just explained gives about 90 mins. On the train into work I get more than enough power for the 40 minute journey.
I would recomend Lenovo to anyone looking to buy a new laptop, although it is worth running comparisons as i'm not up in the world of competition.
Advantages: Built in webcam. fingerprint recognition that works, good customer support. Disadvantages: Slightly sluggish compared to some higher end machines.
I own a Lenovo 3000 N100 and use it daily for personal use. I also use a Dell Latitude D620 for work, but I will try not to compare them too much to each other in this review.
I acquired the Lenovo after my previous Laptop (a Medion) died and couldn't be resurrected by the Insurance company - so I didn't actually go out and buy this one specifically. In actual fact, it is much better than my Medion, although this may be due to the passage of time ... ...it:
I do find the Lenovo is slightly slower to boot up than my Dell. This could be down to many factors, particular as the whole family has a log on and we have the fingerprint recognition turned on. The fingerprint scanner is a nice feature. It comes with some software that allows you to pre-fill known websites with your details (e.g. Ciao, Hotmail etc.) and every time you go to that website it asks you to scan your finger. One scan populates the ...
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Advantages: Light, fast and cheap Disadvantages: Poor speakers
...security suit, easy CD/DVD burner, lenovo support tools, soft-ex omnipass programme for fingerprint scanner. Diskeeper for defragmenting your hard drive and lots more.
I only needed to charge the battery when I first took the notebook out of the box, there was a minimal amount of setting up IE giving the notebook a name etc, but it was not difficult to do, the onscreen instructions were foolproof.
The lid of the notebook houses the integral web-cam ... ...are accessed by pressing the Lenovo Care button, or through the start menu, the help function is a very good source of info should you need it. The thing that impressed me the most, is how accessible the internal components are, for instance, I recently upgraded my memory to around 1 1/2 gig, and all I had to do was use open the small trapdoor underneath of the notebook and install the memory. There is also a door for the hard drive as well.
All ...
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Hi guys,
All lenovo laptops suck..
I bought my Laptop in 2007...Till now I had to change two batteries and two LCD screens. One of both were within warranty. But fr others I had to pay..
My personal suggestion...don't ever go for Lenovo Laptops...Don't even think Lenovo as an option to buy...
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Advantages: Low price Disadvantages: Tiny speakers, Parts used from other makes
...After taking new Lenovo3000N100 Laptop from showroom, I hardly could use it for 2 hours. The hard disk ( I was surprised to see Lenovo using hard disk from another make) was giving no response.
I took it to IBM service center next working day, the service center people asked me to leave it there and to pick it next day.
Next day I went there to collect the laptop, but they told me they will have to replace the hard disk and they don't have a hard disk in their service center, they need more time, they will call me when my laptop will be fixed.
I am a IT professional, after all these I can not rely on Lenovo and make one my workstation....
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Graphics Processor / Vendor: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 TurboCache
Video Memory: DDR2 SDRAM - 128 MB
Audio
Audio Output: Sound card
Audio Codec: AD1986A
Compliant Standards: AC '97, SoundMAX
Features: High Definition Audio
Audio Input: Microphone
Notebook camera
Camera Type: Integrated
Manufacturer's product description
The Lenovo 3000 N100 widescreen notebook is a new, sleek, innovative notebook line that offers worry-free computing experience and solid performance at a great value.
Input device(s)
Type: Keyboard, touchpad
Operating system / software
OS Provided: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Software: Adobe Acrobat Reader, PC Doctor, ThinkVantage Access Connections, Google Toolbar, ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery, Lotus SmartSuite license, Lotus Notes Stand-alone Client licence, ThinkVantage System Update, Diskeeper Lite, Google Desktop, Lenovo Care, Norton Internet Security (90 days subscription) (OEM), Google Picasa 2
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