Sunday, January 30, 2011

Lenovo’s IdeaCentre Q150 review

Lenovo’s IdeaCentre Q150 review
The Lenovo has launched its new ultra-compact nettop which is called Idea centre Q150. The Q150 is just an update of its previous model. The Q150 features Intel Atom D510 processor, Nvidia’s Ion graphics and it also has some strong multimedia features. The Q150 nettop is priced reasonably and it has not compromised on its features to give a brilliant performance.

Design

The Q150 has a unique design and can match up to the word “compact”. If you see this from far you might think it’s a hard drive. The Q150 looks attractive and its size makes it portable. To achieve the glorious size Lenovo had to compromise on card reader slot & optical drive. The Q150’s exterior is very glossy and the cover has a black color with a Lenovo label and on the left bottom is Idea center etched on it. There is ample number of ports on one of the side and the other half bears nothing. The Q150 is equipped with beautiful glass stand and it aids the device to mount. The device also has VESA bracket so it could also be mounted.

Features

* Processor: Intel D510
* Memory: 2GB of DDR2
* Hard drive: 500GB
* Graphics card: NVIDIA Ion 2 DX10
* Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium
* Price: $350

The Q150 has taken a leap from single Atom chip and updated to Intel D510. The Intel D510 features twin 1.66 GHz cores. The Q150 has memory of DDR 2GB, hard drive of 500 GB and graphics card of NVIDIA Ion 2 DX10. There is no need of partition as NVIDIA has a dedicated 512Mb VRAM. Wi-Fi b/g/n is present for connectivity. There are HDMI, VGA, two USB 2.0, Ethernet and audio in/out ports. There are 2 more USB ports totally 4 USB ports and S/ PDIF digital output these two are hidden under a plastic flap. The Q150 misses out on optical drive. Windows 7 Home Premium PC is the platform on which Q150 runs. The bundle includes USB keyboard, USB mouse and also N5901 wireless controllers. The N5901wireless keyboard is an alternative which can be easily kept on the palm. It consists of QWERTY keypad and a trackpad. There is McAfee Security Center, as software package.

Performance

The Q150’s setup is familiar as it runs on Windows 7 32 bit Home Premium PC. The Q150 is not convenient for HTPC connection. The Q150 is good in multi media and video play back is smooth and is done effortlessly which is quite rare considering low voltage inputs. It plays video files of 1080 p smoothly and it can also stream files of Divx format via Wi-Fi network. It aces in all the simple tasks but multi tasking is not something which it is good at. Encoding is very slow. The 1.66GHz processor doesn’t aid to perk up its speed. Graphics performance is brilliant with NVIDIA ION graphics processor. The 3D Mark 06 test score of this device is 2,585 and overall CPU test score is 878. It doesn’t give an enthralling gaming experience but it is decent enough to play games. As its fete is multimedia it performs well in the following areas easily like playing movies, music and buffering videos. The device is bit slow in multi tasking apart from it the performance of the device is good and it is definitely worth the price.

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