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Lenovo 3000 N200 Review
The good: High-end components for the price; competent performance;
comfortable keyboard; display has very fine resolution; solid assortment of
ports and connections, including media-card reader; robust system-management
and help utility.
The badThe bad: One-year warranty inferior to some business
models'; small touch pad and shallow mouse buttons; tinny, soft speakers; few
dedicated multimedia controls; lacks ExpressCard slot; unremarkable battery
life.
The bottom lineThe bottom line: In addition to a set of features
and connections suitable for the small-business user, the Lenovo 3000 N100 delivers
strong components and performance at a competitive price.
Lenovo 3000 N200 Review
What's Hot
Lenovo Care software, Battery life and MP3 encoding performance results
What's Not
Uninspiring design
The Final Word
The Lenovo 3000 N200 may not excel in anything specific, but it offers a good
mix of features for the home or the small business environment. The best asset
of this notebook is its ability to unplug at the end of the work day and go
home with you.
The Lenovo 3000 N200 (0769) is a decent, functional notebook
for both personal and business use, making it a jack of all trades. Although
its presentation is a little uninspiring, Lenovo's implementation of Intel's
latest Centrino platform gives this machine enough power to comfortably handle
a good spread of tasks, which was echoed in our benchmark results.
The N series is specifically targeted at small business users,
and it still provides business features, such as a biometric fingerprint scanner
and Lenovo's password protection software. However, the N200 also offers some
of Lenovo's more personalised features, such as a Webcam and the 15.4in VibrantView
wide screen display to provide flexibility for today's hybrid home/business
users; its most admirable asset.
At its core is an Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz CPU, 1GB of
DDR2 RAM and a GeForce Go 7300 graphics chip. The graphics solution leaves no
room for gaming, but the latest Centrino platform (codenamed Santa Rosa) will
happily run applications from Adobe Photoshop to Microsoft Office. It will also
take care of encoding MP3s fairly quickly, as our tests showed, and making home
movies should be a breeze.
Among many new tweaks to the latest CPU, the new Centrino
platform offers one very clear advantage over the previous version, an 800MHz
front side bus (FSB). Both the CPU bus and the FSB are clocked at 800MHz, giving
the new Centrino platform more bandwidth to shuffle data back and forth between
the CPU and the memory subsystem.
With its 2.0GHz CPU and 1GB of DDR2 RAM, the Lenovo 3000 N200
reached a total score of 70 in WorldBench 6, about the minimum we'd expect from
this new platform. We were particularly impressed by its performance in the
MP3 encoding test, generally considered a test of the CPUs performance. Unlike
most notebooks with the T7300, which take around 135 seconds to encode 53 minutes
worth of WAV files to 192Kbps MP3 files, the Lenovo 3000 N200 took just 128
seconds. We also tested at a higher compression using iTunes, which takes advantage
of the multiple cores of the CPU. Compressing 53 minutes of WAV files to 56Kbps
MP3 files in iTunes took just 85 seconds.
In our battery tests the N200 performed among the better of
the notebooks we've tested recently, while leaving room for improvement. Using
a DVD rundown test, a worst case scenario, which impacts maximum drain on the
battery by using both the speakers and the optical drive among the other core
components such as the CPU, the system lasted for 90 minutes. Under normal workload
we expect it to last longer.
For those who like a good movie on the road, the N200 offers
a fairly reasonable screen with decent colour, brightness and contrast, with
a 1280x800 native resolution. The viewing angle isn't perfect but it will suffice
for most peoples needs. The speakers don't produce a very loud sound, but it's
clear and a headphone jack is present should the speakers fail to impress you.
For the business or security conscious home user, Lenovo includes
its Lenovo Care software, a package that is pre-installed and can be quickly
accessed via an associated button on the notebook itself. Lenovo Care gives
you quick access to data backups, system maintenance and password protection,
as well as network and display profiles and a set of online help links. The
interface is easy to read and simple to use.
A total of four USB 2.0 ports are installed, as is one
mini FireWire port. Gigabit Ethernet is installed for wired networking, as is
56k modem, while 802.11 a/b/g and draft-n standards are available, not to mention
Bluetooth. An Express Card slot joins the list, and a 5-in-1 media card reader
is also available. A DVD re-writer with dual layer support and a 120GB hard
drive will take care of your storage needs.
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About Lenovo
Lenovo are one of the world’s leading personal computer
manufactures. The philosophy is to be a new world company that makes the world’s
best-engineered PCs for their customers. In 2005 Lenovo acquired the IBM personal
computer division allowing the Lenovo group to become the third largest global
PC provider.
Lenovo’s innovating approach has led them to introduce
some of the best rated laptops in their field. In 2005 Lenovo
introduced the industry’s thinnest laptop, The ThinkPad X41 Tablet.
Lenovo History
Lenova, the Chinese company was established by a team of
eleven computer technocrats in 1984. At that time however, this software giant
was known as Legend Group Ltd. Though set up in Beijing, the company was controlled
and financed from Hong Kong.
Headed by Liu Chuanzhi, this company made a major breakthrough
in inventing a chip card that could help in putting in Chinese characters. The
breakthrough, pioneered by Ni Guangnan, made a major impact to the company's
sale. However, Liu was evicted by Ni eventually, and the firm disintegrated
into two entities - Lenova and Digital China Holdings. While Lenova made its
way through the world of computer manufacturing, Digital China took up the wholesale
dealership of IT products.
For a long time, nothing major happened in Lenova. In 2005,
Lenova acquired the PC division of IBM, making it one of the international stalwart
in personal computers (PC). Through this acquisition, Lenova had access to most
of the major software products and technologies produced by IBM. As a result,
Lenova could use ThinkPad,
ThinkVision, ThinkCentre, ThinkVantage, and Aptiva, NetVista in its personal
computers.
With these software technologies in Lenova PCs,
the company soon became the third largest manufacturer of personal computers.
It marked the beginning of a new range of computers, such as dual core notebooks,
linux-based computers, and laptops on Santa Rosa platform. It started the famous
"Idea" brand to maintain its position at the top.
With superb technologies and competent marketing skills and
strategies, Lenova made a good headway in personal computing by refuting "world's
most secure notebooks" campaign promoted by one of its competitors, Dell.
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