I’ve used Acer, Toshiba, Asus and HP keyboards in recent months and none of them were as pleasurable to type on as this. Granted, it’s no ThinkPad keyboard, but it’s the best laptop I’ve used on a consumer grade notebook in a long time. ![]() The keyboard is where this machine shines. On the front is the card reader and the two status indicator lights – one for power and one for charge status. On the left there’s two USB 3.0 ports, one full size HDMI port and a full size Ethernet port, on the left there’s a single USB 2.0 port, a combo headphone\microphone jack and the power jack. The U310 doesn’t have a huge number of ports, but certainly more than the super ultra thin ultrabooks out there. I’m thinking this is just unique to mine, as there’s none on the other side and I’ve not read any complaints about it online. I saw it and wondered how did it not get noticed? It does slightly cheapen the experience.Īnother slight build issue was that it appeared that the glass covering the screen wasn’t quite the right size, as there’s some visible exposed silver to the left of the screen. One tiny, tiny thing that I noticed and then couldn’t unsee – the model number under the screen isn’t aligned to be flush with the side of the panel. On the other hand, it often felt like I wasn’t carrying the U310 when I was. It’s also quite light too – I usually carry my T530 around in my backpack at uni and I can definitely feel that I’m carrying it. The base is also plastic but of a different kind – it too is dark grey like the lid but is a soft touch plastic, making it easier to grip when carrying. While the inside is plastic, it’s definitely not cheap looking plastic. It’s got a handsome dark grey aluminium lid. I talked about this in the YouTube unboxing I did when I first received it, but to reiterate – this machine is gorgeous. 500GB hard drive (a HGST HTS545050A7E380)Ĭurrently, this IdeaPad isn’t available in Australia but you can get variants of it on Amazon, starting at US$599.99 with a Core i5 3337U CPU, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard drive and 24GB SSD cache.Intel Core i7 3537U CPU with Intel HD Graphics.After having used it as my main laptop for the past couple of weeks, it’s now time to write a review of it. As mentioned in my previous post, I had received from Lenovo an IdeaPad U310 Touch.
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