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Lenovo IdeaPad Y550
$549.00
Released March, 2009
The Pros:Multi-touch trackpad. Model available with discrete graphics card. Powerful internals - Intel Core 2 Duo processors, DDR3 memory.
The Cons:Poor battery life. Pales in comparison to the world renowned ThinkPad series. Heavy and large.
The Lenovo Y550 model is a mid-grade laptop designed to provide many options to the average home computer user; with available features falling under specs for gaming, portable, home and media computer machine use.
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The entire Y series of Lenovo laptops (Y650, Y550, Y450) were announced, and put on display, at the 2009 CES event in Las Vegas. The Lenovo Y550 will offer a 15.6" LCD display with a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. As with most computers on the market each version is fully upgradeable to meet an individual consumer's needs. The Y series of laptops offer up to 500GB storage space, up to 4GB of memory, and optional NVIDIA GFX graphics support. Additional options include a multi-touch touch-pad mouse interface, full facial recognition technology for security, and a very thin body design that weighs a mere 5.6 pounds total. All Y-series devices are set to go on sale sometime in March 2009; and both the Y550 and Y450 laptops have a starting retail price of $829.
Unfortunately at this time there is no additional information on internal CPU type or speed. Further updates on this particular product will come as they are announced.
Features
- Mid-grade laptop
- Suitable for gaming, portable, home and media use
- 15.6" LCD display with 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio
- Up to 500GB storage space, 4 GB memory, and optional support for NVIDIA GFX graphics
- Multi-touch touch-pad interface (mouse)
- Facial recognition technology
- Very thin body design; weighs only 5.6 pounds
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model available with discrete graphics card
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powerful internals - Intel Core 2 Duo processors, DDR3 memory
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good enough for the majority of consumers
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includes built-in
1.3 megapixel camera
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pales in comparison to the world renowned ThinkPad series
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mediocre battery life - (poor is too harsh)
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No way of swapping Fn and Ctrl buttons in BIOS
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Insert key is available only as Fn+Insert.
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For models with BCM4315: Wireless hardly compatible with Linux/FreeBSD
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relatively small keyboard
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not available / already replaced with the G series
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expensive for what you get
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