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Review LENOVO THINKPAD L420 Notebook

Review LENOVO THINKPAD L420 Notebook

In the case when your work is accompanied by extreme conditions (temperature changes, frequent mechanical shocks, varying levels of humidity), the Lenovo ThinkPad L420 laptop can withstand any test. It was not in vain that it was tested for compliance with military standards. This laptop was created in order to provide the user with the necessary reliability, as well as excellent functionality and performance.

Design

In the Lenovo ThinkPad L420 laptop, the case is made of sufficiently durable plastic, which serves to protect the laptop from various kinds of damage. In appearance, the Lenovo L420 has many similarities to most of the ThinkPad notebooks. The design is dominated by the same business and strict forms, there is nothing superfluous, everywhere there is only a matte smooth surface. The body has no sharp corners, strong curves and smooth transitions. Everything in such a laptop seems to say: "Work first!"

The interior of the laptop has not been changed either. The design of the device has a restrained style everywhere - traditionally a blue [Enter] button, a red trackpoint, the display is framed by a strict frame. The black scale is somehow diluted with silver-colored metal hinges (with their help the display is held) and the company logo located on the lid and on the pallet.

Display

The Lenovo ThinkPad L420 laptop has a 14-inch display with a resolution of 1366x768 pixels. This widescreen display features a cinematic 16: 9 aspect ratio and LED backlighting. The user will also be pleased with a decent level of brightness and a matte display finish. Color saturation and contrast are also at a fairly good level. The characteristics of this display, as for a working laptop, are very good. The only problem is that the font is a little too small, but all this is solved.

A built-in 720p webcam was placed on the display frame. With its help, a business person can solve work issues with his colleagues in the videoconference mode, and also has the opportunity to chat with friends.

Keyboard and touchpad

Traditionally, the ThinkPad line is equipped with three main input devices: keyboard, trackpoint and touchpad.

The laptop has a traditional keyboard. It is a fairly large keys located at a short distance from each other. The bottom part of almost all buttons is rounded, and their surface is not flat, but concave. Of the entire keyboard block, only the keys from the arrow block have different sizes - they are noticeably smaller.

The tradition was followed in relation to the [Enter] key. She, as before, is highlighted in blue and instantly catches the eye. This button occupies one row, and not two as usual, but it is made large, so there will be no problems with pressing.

In general, you can immediately see that the keyboard is ergonomic. Accordingly, there will be no problems during typing.

On the left and right sides of the keyboard are indicators and a row of buttons. On the right side is the ThinkVantage key. We will talk about it a little later. Below it are indicators that signal the state of wireless communications, hard disk operation, and the Caps Lock key on. A group of four buttons was placed on the opposite side of the keyboard. Namely, there are buttons here that allow you to adjust the volume level, mute the sound and microphone.

In the very center of the keyboard block is the trackpoint. From the first minutes of acquaintance, its bright red rubberized surface attracts attention. This mini-joystick is very comfortable to use, only it takes a little practice to operate it.Two keys located below the [Space] key help the Trackpoint to perform various tasks. They are pressed clearly enough. In general, the mini-joystick can be used as an alternative to the touchpad.

The touchpad itself has a large sensitive area. The surface of the manipulator, like the trackpoint area, has a rough surface. Positioning using the touchpad is quite convenient. The only thing is that the buttons of the touch field are made a little beveled, it may seem unusual. There should be no special problems with cursor control, as well as with vertical and horizontal scrolling. By the way, the touchpad supports the function of multi-touch gestures, so the user can zoom and rotate images.

The area near the touchpad is equipped with a fingerprint scanner. For a business laptop, this is a very important security measure, because it restricts access to the device by unauthorized persons.

Processor and packaging

The Lenovo ThinkPad L420 is powered by a Core i3-2310M processor, clocked at 2.1 GHz, and has a 3MB L3 cache. This dual-core central processor is quite efficient, since it is built on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, so it can cope with the solution of most not very complex tasks.

The processor is combined with an integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 card, it has 256 MB of dynamic memory at its disposal. It would be wrong to say that this video card is too productive, but it is capable of performing video decoding and solving office applications. With the Graphics 3000, you can even play games without any problems. True, most modern games will run only at low and medium settings, while with old toys there will be no lag.

The processor complements the RAM, two slots are allocated for it for installing brackets. In our configuration, the amount of RAM was 2 GB of DDR3 standard.

Very often, modern laptops began to be equipped with capacious hard drives of 500 GB or more. This model is equipped with a 320 GB hard drive, but this is enough to store a large number of files, which may include photos, texts, games, videos. The hard drive works very well, its spindle rotates at 5400 rpm.

The Lenovo ThinkPad L420 does not come with a preinstalled operating system. Thus, the user himself can decide which system is best for him. There is also a model that already has a pre-installed operating system Windows 7 Professional, it is present on the Lenovo ThinkPad L420 NYV3NRT laptop, but it is worth considering that in this case you will have to pay 120-150 dollars more. But in any case, thanks to the support of proprietary ThinkVantage technology, you will always have an arsenal of tools with which you can diagnose your system.

Ports and communications

The right side of the Lenovo ThinkPad L420 laptop is occupied by the built-in DVD ± RW Super-Multi optical drive. It can be used to read and write discs in various formats, as well as double-layer ones. On the right side, there is also a place for some of the main interfaces. There are two USB 2.0 ports, and a card reader with which you can read SDXC, MMC, SD, SDHC cards. On the same side, there is a socket for connecting a recharging, a Kensington lock hole and a Wi-Fi switch.

The main part of the connectors and ports is located on the left side. So, for example, near the front edge you can see the combined audio jack, with its help a microphone and headphones are connected to the laptop, above it there is a universal ExpressCard / 54 slot. Next, one after the other, there are two video outputs VGA and DisplayPort. We found a place to install a USB port combined with eSATA and an RJ-45 network port.

The back is also not empty. There is another USB port, with its help you can recharge external devices.Also on the back panel there is a battery and a small ventilation grill.

The laptop was equipped with a Bluetooth 3.0 adapter for data exchange between devices. You can browse the web and surf the Internet using Wi-Fi version 802.11g.

Battery

The Lenovo ThinkPad L420 laptop comes with a 6-cell battery. Its capacity is 5200 mAh. In balanced mode, when browsing the web at 70% screen brightness, the battery will last 4 hours and 36 minutes.

Conclusion

We cannot say that the laptop surprised us with something special. However, everyone is already accustomed to the fact that laptops from the ThinkPad series are reliable business devices. The Lenovo ThinkPad L420 has everything you need to make everyday work a pleasure, not a frustration. The pluses include the presence of a varied set of ports, a comfortable keyboard, a matte display with good brightness.

Most users will be satisfied after buying a ThinkPad L420 laptop, because for a relatively low price, they will receive a device with high functionality in return.

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