Lenovo IdeaPad U300s: Designed like Macbooks, Sleek, Light and Long Battery life

Designed like a MacBook

Lenovo's IdeaPad U300s came as the latest edition to the growing Ultrabook portable laptop market. Premium magnesium alloy made Slim, light Lenovo IdeaPad U300s looks very similar with Apple's MacBook range. It was launched at the IFA trade show and was appreciated as well as controversial. Though Lenovo did not deal with notable consumer PC business, the voice from its press conference at IFA launching clearly indicates that it has seriously aimed at capturing the consumer bazaar.

Its design is no doubt beautiful. The combination of magnesium alloy on the body panel is smooth, single-piece touchpad lined clearly, and the modest interior is obviously fabulous.
Folio-esque suspended edges just make a difference to the overall chassis design, but the touchpad shape, the keyboard style and its approach in the chassis are questionable in terms of convenience. This slim machine features 14.9mm thickness though some users are looking for less.

Lenovo IdeaPad U300s weighs amazingly only 1.3 Kg and though the build quality is not that level good like MacBooks, but undoubtedly excellent.

Connectivity

Connectivity on the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s may disappoint you as there are only a headphone jack, USB 3.0 and HDMI ports and on the right edge the power jack exists and another USB 2.0 port visible on the left edge. No SD slot and Ethernet provision kept and you have to depend only on two USBs.

Cutely Integrated Keyboard

The keyboard and trackpad are on the right track. The keyboard with American-style layout is mainly deliberated as MacBook-esque element of Lenovo IdeaPad U300s that usually only found on Macs rather than the US. However this keyboard works like an excellent typing device. Unlike the Lenovo's ThinkPad range, these keys have a silky but bouncy and sound distinct action with negligible shake or bend from the casing.

The touchpad with a sand blasted glass surface felt wonderfully smooth as your touch it. The brilliant click-anywhere action responds to wherever you want to press your fingers. The left and right buttons separating line has no basic use as no buttons are there in fact; you have to press the usual right and left click area for left and right click.

LCD is not like Premium

The glossy and reflective (though it should be matte finished as a part of such premium machine) 13.3" LCD screen quality is average with resolution 1366x768 and can't deliver lively colors, but viewing angle is perfect.

On Board

Basic specifications of  Lenovo IdeaPad U300s are very common- Intel Core i7 processor,  256GB SSD hard drive and 4GB of RAM, though another one features the Intel Core i5 and 128GB SSD.

Long Battery service

Its Battery life is supposed to be up to 12 hours, 8hrs in normal use, in standby 30 days. Lenovo IdeaPad U300s is simply expensive, costs $1199, and may be a big barrier for some users.

In spite of glossy screen and limited connectivity, some features like- wonderfully built, very light, top battery life, and the outstanding keyboard and touchpad made Lenovo IdeaPad U300s a pleasing machine. Reports say that Lenovo is also capitalizing these features to get some market share from McBook.