Lenovo B50-30 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB
- 2.2 GHz Intel Core i3-5020U (Broadwell)
- 4GB of DDR3L RAM
- 15.6" LED-Backlit Display
- HD 1366 x 768 Native Resolution
- Integrated Intel HD Graphics 5500
- 500GB Hard Drive
- 4-in-1 Media Card Reader
- 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
- 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0, HDMI
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The Lenovo B50 uses the older dual-core Intel Celeron N2815 rather than the N2830 we’ve seen in other budget laptops. Its base clock speed is 1.86GHz while the N2830 is faster at 2.16GHz. The N2815 does at least support Intel Turbo Boost to 2.13GHz when temperatures allow. The Lenovo B50 also comes with 4GB of RAM and there is a 320GB hard disk for storage, which should be adequate enough for your applications and media. |
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The touchpad is wide but not very tall, meaning you don’t have much vertical surface area for scrolling gestures. Happily, we didn’t have any problems with swipes and gestures being recognised at least. The dedicated mouse buttons were difficult to use, however. They are very spongy and we often found that our left-clicks failed to register unless we pressed down very hard. We found ourselves having to resort to using tap-to-click on the touchpad instead. |
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The keyboard has a keyboard with a full-size numeric keypad and thankfully we had no issues with the size of the keys or encountered any strange placements. There was some flex to the chassis in the centre of the keyboard, but it wasn’t a major problem as it can be for a laptop at this price. However, there’s not much travel to the keys, meaning you don’t get as much tactile feedback as we would have liked, which is a real shame as the keyboard had the potential to be decent otherwise. |
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There’s at least a decent array of connections with one USB3 and two USB2 ports. There’s also a Gigabit Ethernet port for a wired network connection and both VGA and HDMI for hooking up an external display. Surprisingly, especially considering the price, a DVD writer drive is also included, which will be useful if you still have software on optical discs or want to watch DVDs. On the front of the system there’s also a multi-card reader for SDXC memory cards. |
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| SKU | MCA39UK |
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| Weight | 1.000000 |
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The Lenovo B50 uses the older dual-core Intel Celeron N2815 rather than the N2830 we’ve seen in other budget laptops. Its base clock speed is 1.86GHz while the N2830 is faster at 2.16GHz. The N2815 does at least support Intel Turbo Boost to 2.13GHz when temperatures allow. The Lenovo B50 also comes with 4GB of RAM and there is a 320GB hard disk for storage, which should be adequate enough for your applications and media. |
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The touchpad is wide but not very tall, meaning you don’t have much vertical surface area for scrolling gestures. Happily, we didn’t have any problems with swipes and gestures being recognised at least. The dedicated mouse buttons were difficult to use, however. They are very spongy and we often found that our left-clicks failed to register unless we pressed down very hard. We found ourselves having to resort to using tap-to-click on the touchpad instead. |
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The keyboard has a keyboard with a full-size numeric keypad and thankfully we had no issues with the size of the keys or encountered any strange placements. There was some flex to the chassis in the centre of the keyboard, but it wasn’t a major problem as it can be for a laptop at this price. However, there’s not much travel to the keys, meaning you don’t get as much tactile feedback as we would have liked, which is a real shame as the keyboard had the potential to be decent otherwise. |
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There’s at least a decent array of connections with one USB3 and two USB2 ports. There’s also a Gigabit Ethernet port for a wired network connection and both VGA and HDMI for hooking up an external display. Surprisingly, especially considering the price, a DVD writer drive is also included, which will be useful if you still have software on optical discs or want to watch DVDs. On the front of the system there’s also a multi-card reader for SDXC memory cards. |
| SKU | MCA39UK |
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| Weight | 1.000000 |
