The Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 is a large, adequately able and awful beautiful multimedia anthology offering. The ablaze 16-inch widescreen is impressively large, as is the multitouch able touchpad. Throw in an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53GHz processor, 4GB RAM, a 320GB HDD, a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce G105M GPU and you�ve got yourself some admirable internals to go with the adorable externals. And did we acknowledgment the weight is alone 5.6lbs, and acquainted like less? If alone the amount were a little lower and the keyboard a little larger, this laptop would accept some appealing aerial marks all around.
Design - Case attending and feel
Lenovo has acutely put some time into the attending of the Y650. The black, cautiously honeycombed matte lid is bland to the blow and accessible on the eyes, with annihilation accident it save a argent Lenovo logo in the basal appropriate corner. Aloft the ablaze LCD a atramentous webcam is anchored in the bezel, and the accomplished affectation is amidst by an adorable chestnut trim. The keyboard is absolutely white, with a brace of JBL speakers and a brace of buttons surrounding the abnormally recessed keyboard (more on that later). Aloft the keyboard lie a few blow buttons in black, and beneath it is the accurately colossal touchpad. The touchpad and wrist rests are additionally white and alike the IdeaPad logo in the basal appropriate bend glows white. The alone added blush besides white actuality is the chestnut trim about the abject and the chestnut action accents on the keyboard keys.
Size and Weight
The IdeaPad Y650 does an accomplished job of actuality ample after actuality either beefy or heavy, and for that it should be commended. With ambit of 15.4� x 10.2� x 1.0� it almost, but not quite, achieves MacBook-like slimness. It does this admitting accepting a 16-inch awning compared to the MacBook�s 15-incher and alone belief a tenth of a batter added at 5.6 lb. It�s acutely appealing advanced compared to accepted aspect arrangement 14-15 inch laptops, but as continued as you apperceive what admeasurement laptop you�re accepting you�ll be abundantly afraid by the weight and array of this laptop. Considering its size, we were actual afflicted with the portability.
Keyboard and Touchpad
With a laptop this ample you can about apprehend a ample keyboard. Personally, I�m a fan of committed numberpads if they can fit comfortably, and the 16-inch anatomy agency is about area you alpha to see them appear. However, Lenovo has absitively to comedy tricks with our apperception here, demography a keyboard you ability see in a 14� laptop and actually advance it appear the actual top of the accessible keyboard space, giving the accomplished affair a adequately scrunched look. We can accept the abridgement of a numberpad, as they aren�t awfully common, but were aghast to see ashen keys (like appropriate about-face and tab) with so abundant accessible space.
The ashen backspace alike went so far as to accomplish an annoying arising babble every time we affected it, as if it weren�t absolutely acclimatized into its slot. On the flipside, the touchpad is affably large, and alike boasts some basal pinch-me multitouch functionality. The keyboard and touchpad are both adequate to use, with aloof a little angle in the centermost and a adequate gridded activity respectively. Finally, a few advance and touch-sensitive buttons accidentally beleaguer the keyboard on three sides. The appearance are nice, but we�re not abiding why Lenovo included two altered and bombastic means to acclimatize aggregate or alarm up OneKey. We�ll explain added below.
Display Quality
The affectation affection of the Y650 is able-bodied aloft average. The LED backlit awning is ablaze and helps action the blaze of the ablaze screen, which makes the colors sharp. There is alike a button to set the affectation to �movie mode� with brighter colors still. Horizontal examination angles are good, although baloney sets in a little eventually than we�d like on such a media-centric unit. Vertical examination angles are accomplished though, abnormally from below.
Connectivity
You can�t afford pounds after authoritative some sacrifices, and the connectivity is a little weaker than we would accept hoped. However, we can�t say Lenovo was defective for creativity, activity so far in their amplitude extenuative measures as to amount the DVD tray in the front. There is additionally HDMI and eSATA, which we�re consistently blessed to see.
The larboard ancillary of the assemblage contains the ability jack, followed by the HDMI and VGA ports. 1 of the 2 (yes, there�s alone 2) USB ports follows this, and again you�ll acquisition the fan exhaust.
The appropriate ancillary appearance an Ethernet port, Expresscard34 aperture (no 54), eSATA, audio in/out and the aftermost USB port.
The advanced of the laptop sports the DVD drive and a wireless on/off switch, with a few cachet lights in between.
The aback is beggared of ports as the affectation hinges downward, accoutrement it absolutely back in use.
Upgrading
The Y650 has an all-in-one basal bowl that you accept to abolish to admission any of the internals, which makes it accessible to do big upgrades, but affectionate of a affliction to do baby ones. Our laptop was added or beneath the aerial end of the Y650s on Lenovo�s site, but it�s accessible to beat bottomward the processor to a P8600 and get 3GB RAM on 32bit Vista if you appetite to save $100. You could additionally opt for chip graphics, but currently it won�t save you a dollar (thanks to a Lenovo sale), so we don�t acclaim this unless you�re crazily anxious about array life. There doesn�t assume to be a way to get a college resolution awning or bigger battery, both of which would be nice additions.
Features
The IdeaPad Y650 comes loaded with Veriface facial acceptance technology, which about lets you abduction an angel of your face with the chip webcam and use it instead of a countersign to login. The affection is air-conditioned and acutely quick and accessible to use, but in acute cases it can still be afraid aloof like a password, so it�s no acumen to be absent-minded if you abundance acute actual on your laptop. The Y650 additionally comes with the advanced loading DVD drive, which we�re counting as a affection aloof for its uniqueness.
Other nice appearance accommodate the astronomic touchpad, barometer 4.4 x 2.5-inches, which Lenovo boasts is the better on any laptop. There is a blow slider at the top which brings up a card composed of Accessible Capture, Ready Connect, Veriface and OneKey. There is additionally a blow button to about-face amid �movie mode� and �regular� and abutting to that, a blow button to alarm up Dolby complete software. There are concrete buttons on either ancillary of the keyboard, but abreast from the ability button they alone let you acclimatize aggregate and alarm up OneKey. OneKey can be run from the slider and the aggregate is additionally a action affection on the approved keyboard, so we doubtable these buttons were alone put in abode to booty your apperception off the actuality that the keyboard is so scrunched.
Performance
On a multimedia anthology we don�t consistently apprehend the best achievement in agreement of gaming, but with a committed GPU and affluence of RAM and processor speed, we accepted acceptable achievement and were not disappointed.
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