Wednesday, June 29, 2011

My New Lenovo SL-410

Driver page (impossible to find on Levono site, had to Google, notebook not even listed!)
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$420 w/ship/tax from the Lenovo Outlet. ThinkPad SL410 2842-K3U

First caveat, do not use the Lenovo update. It will download the Windows updates and painfully install them one package at a time. Each time you must "agree" to the EULA and each time it reboots. Once was enough for me.

Included is a lot of Lenovo centric software that appears useless and needs to be turned off and or uninstalled. I normally dump the wifi controls and let windows handle things. Lenovo s is so cool I will keep it for awhile at least.

It seems sluggish yet even after some tweaking. Maybe memory increase from 2gb to 4gb will help.

The touch pad is a little strange. If you miss tapping the center it doesn't register well. I have no clue how to use the other nav buttons.

The screen is crisp and colorful and very bright.

Keypad is responsive with nothing too strange in the layout.

Speakers are better than average but nothing fantastic.

Very quiet and runs cool, under 40C on a warm summer day surfing.

More to come.

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