The 13-inch Notebook Lenovo ThinkPad Edge stands out by his businesslike, yet elegant design visually. His performance may be seen, although it has a few small weaknesses. Positive keyboard, display and battery life to fall.

The cheap Lenovo ThinkPad notebook Edge is available in various configurations. In the main processor as one has the choice between an AMD Athlon X2 Neo and an Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300. Even in the simple versions of the equipment is high quality. The 13.3 inch large display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels offers good, bright images. However, the brightness is not quite as big as some other notebooks.

With up to 4 GB of RAM, up to 500 GB s, fast WLAN (standard), Gigabit-LAN, Webcam, 5-in-1 card reader, Bluetooth, HDMI port and multi-touch touchpad has the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 ” notebook on a range of equipment that goes beyond the mere needs of business users. However, lacking an internal optical drive. If required, for example, then you have to connect an external DVD burner.

In addition, the casing attracts fingerprints and is the TouchPad got a little too large, which can lead to faulty operation. Basically they have made themselves at Lenovo but many worry about the user-friendliness. As a representative of the ThinkPad series, it has the typical trackpoint between the keys G, H and B, which can be controlled with the mouse.

The control over a track point for newcomers, although getting used to, but has some fans. If you can make friends with the TrackPoint does not need are not using it, this is just an additional control option. The extra “mouse buttons” below the space bar, you need not fear it, break in using the track points the thumb. Here, the developers have thought along well.

Well done to the Edge Lenovo ThinkPad notebook is also the keypad, the keys can be operated by its slight curvature better than completely flat keypad. Some rarely used keys, the manufacturer has omitted entirely. How often do you need even SysRq (System Request), screen lock, or the pause button? Lenovo also waived a praiseworthy way to preload an array of programs, which hardly needs someone.