Recent content by snowathlete

Thanks for your suggestion, helpful to hear another person's thought on it. I did look around quite a bit, and these were the two that looked the best options. I did try a local shop the other day but they didn't have the ThinkPad to see in the flesh. At the time I didn't look specifically for...

Was about to buy a Lenovo ThinkPad E550 i3, but then saw the Lenovo Essential B50-80 for around the same price but with an i5 processor, double the RAM, an additional USB3 port, dedicated graphics (though looks like no better than the ingegrated intel one on the other machine). Bigger, though...

I have a new Lenovo G70-70 and it gets warm under the keyboard on the right hand side, presumably where the CPU is. It isn't hot hot, but annoyingly warm. I use my laptop mainly for writing. Not so bad when actually typing, its the space between writing something when you rest your hand and...

I have almost the same system, a Samsung S3511 with roughly the same equipement. It's been a decent machine, with the processor being pretty strong. I just bought a new 17" lenovo to upgrade, but I will keep the Samsung as it is more a portable unit, and still capable. I am thinking of...

Similar specs and same price, but the Lenovo has a small 8GB SSD in addition to the HDD which should boost startup and launches, whereas the Dell does not but has a better processor. Here is the Lenovo...