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Lenovo Ideapad U-550 15.6-Inch Black Laptop - Up to 6 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)
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| List Price: | $699.99 |
| Price: | $561.01 |
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Breakthrough Entertainment. Upgrade to the ultra-thin IdeaPad U550 packed with smart Lenovo features, the energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Windows 7 Lenovo Enhanced Experience certification.The future is now, and the new U550 will make your life a little bit easier with user enhancements like the Active Protection System, which will protect your hard disk drive from knocks and sudden shocks, ensuring greater reliability for your movies, photos and documents. And with Windows 7 Lenovo Enhanced Experience certification, you’ll appreciate fast boot and shutdown, rich multimedia capabilities and easy system maintenance tools. All this in a 15"notebook that’s just 1.5” thick and weighs only 6.1lbs. Best of all, it’s from Lenovo, makers of the legendary ThinkPad.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #644 in Personal Computers
- Color: Black
- Brand: Lenovo
- Model: 3749-59U
- Dimensions: 8.60 pounds
- CPU: Pentium 1.3 GHz
- Memory: 4GB SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 1GB
- Processors: 1
- Display size: 15.6
Features
- 1.3GHz Intel Pentium Low Voltage Processor
- 4GB Memory
- 320GB Hard Drive, DVDRW Drive
- 15.6" HD LED Backlit Widescreen Glossy Display, Intel GMA 4500 MHD Graphics
- Windows 7 Premium, Up to 6 Hours of Battery Life
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
Introducing the Ultra-Thin IdeaPad™ U550 The future is now, and the new IdeaPad™ U550 will make your life a little bit easier, with enhancements like Active Protection System which protects your hard drive from sudden shocks and an Ambient Light Sensor that adjusts screen brightness to reduce eye strain. And with Windows® 7 Lenovo Enhanced Experience certification, you’ll appreciate fast boot and shutdown, rich multimedia capabilities and easy system maintenance tools. All this in a notebook that’s just 1.2 inches thin and only 5.3lbs. Plus it’s from Lenovo, makers of the legendary ThinkPad notebook.
IdeaPad™ U550 Notebook Key Features
- Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo SU7300
- OS: Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium
- Display: 15.6 inch high-definition LED backlight display, 16:9 widescreen
- Hard Drive: 320GB 5400rpm SATA
- Memory (RAM): 4GB DDR3
- Battery: Battery life up to 6 hrs
- System Weight: 5.3 lbs
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A Better Windows® 7 Experience
 | Windows® 7 Lenovo Enhanced Experience provides a faster, richer and easier way to use your PC. Enhanced Experience PCs feature fast boot and shutdown, rich multimedia capabilities and easy system maintenance tools. And Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can watch, pause, rewind, and record TV. Get the best entertainment experience with Windows 7 Home Premium. |
Customer Reviews
Great computer for the price. Not a Thinkpad, but close
Not quite as solid as a Thinkpad, but not the price of one, either, nor the weight. And much sexier. This is a larger 15.6 inch version of the U350, the earlier version of which critics seemed to love for form factor, but complained about sub-par processing performance. The new lineup seems to fix that problem, and now it is the complete package. The SU7300 Core 2 Duo is lightning fast for the tasks I am doing to this point. Granted, I haven't pushed it to generate 3D CAD drawings, but for Office, Web browsing, working with iTunes and the things most of us do on a daily basis, I certainly am impressed. Huge HD, plenty of RAM. Beautiful keyboard as always from Lenovo. It does lack Firewire, but has every other connection you could want. 3 USBs are nice, as is the card reader and HDMI output. I thought it had bluetooth, but I can't seem to locate it - this appears to be a difference between this beautiful black version (bought right here on Amazon) and the brown versions sold by Lenovo directly. The other difference appears to be I seem to have an integrated graphics card, while the brown Lenovo version has a 512MB card. Not that I can tell a difference so far. This is a great value.
Lenovo Ideapad U-550: Best option for thin and light
Here's the summary of my experience with the Lenovo U-550
Pros
* Combination of 15.6 inch screen and relatively light weight
* Relatively long battery life
* Reasonably solid construction
* More than sufficient for moderate MS Office use and heavy internet/ entertainment use
Cons
* Lenovo customer support is a bureaucratic nightmare
* Numeric keypad occupies right-most section of the keyboard, shifting the remainder of the keyboard to the left
* Glossy screen and body translates into a grimy appearance due to finger prints
* Screen will slam shut against the keyboard unless you slow it as it closes
My previous Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop was near death, so it was time to replace it after ~ 4 years of heavy use. I was happy with the Dell, but it was a heavy beast that plowed through battery power. In looking for the replacement, I wanted an impossible combination of desktop replacement like the E1505, but minus the weight, bulk, and limited battery performance of the E1505. Upon shopping, I was unimpressed with MacBook Pro given the price. Other Wintel thin and light machines appeared to be cheaply built or with low-quality components/ limited screen size. The Lenovo Ideapad U-550 stood out to me as a higher quality build with a large screen. I knew that it came with a glossy screen, but I couldn't find any other comparable machine without this annoyance. Also the numeric keypad placed on the rightmost section of the keyboard displaces the other keys to the left, which seems unnecessary to me (how many of us really key in data with a numeric keypad?).
All considered, I am happy with the purchase. The U-550 is easy to carry around, is good for the intended use (i.e. moderate MS Office use, heavy use for internet, movies, music), and has a reasonable battery life (~4+ hrs under perpetual use, less with a movie/ DVD thrown in).
The major shortcoming is Lenovo customer support. I wanted an additional battery for the U-550 to really cover a 6 hour flight under moderate use with DVDs. Attempting to get even this simple of a request accommodated through Lenovo customer support was a true nightmare. It took two days of transfers and frustration. Dell support was much better (but I was not impressed with their thin and light PCs).
I read it was BLACK !!!
I was just about to purchase this Ideapad U550 from [...] but, I read the first review on this product and changed my mind due to the color comments. The ones on Lenovo website are DARK BROWN, I read these ones were BLACK but NOT... they're DARK BROWN also so don't get confused. The color is not bad, let's say it's different from the one I thought I was purchasing.
I recieved my deapad U550 (model # 374959U) on Dec 10th and so far it's up to spec, shipping was pretty fast (Free Super Saving) and got on the third day to South Texas.
If you don't mind getting a DARK BROWN laptop, this is a great value for $699.99 (4GB + 320GB), if you want to save $110 usd, get the 3GB + 250GB HD.
Note: Amazon's description says it's 1000GB but it's a 320GB HD.
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