Lenovo Lenovo IdeaPad Y510

81

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Pros
Hardy construction
A multimedia machine with great speakers
Cons
Anti-glare screen actually caused glare

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Performance: Fair: 62
Features: Very Good: 80
Design: Very Good: 84

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	613
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	842
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	960
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	3:42:05 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	8.13
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	19.48
Firefox 2	388
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	415
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	314
Multitasking	497
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	577
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	275
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	394
WorldBench 6 Score	70
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Fair

What You Should Know about the Lenovo IdeaPad Y510

Multitask and Not Bog Down

The more memory a PC has, the faster your programs run and the more windows you can work in simultaneously. Equipped with memory between 1GB and 3GB, this laptop should be able to handle just about any task you can throw at it without bogging down too much. For instance, if you're a multitasker and you'd like to burn a music CD in one window while watching your favorite DVD movie (for the umpteenth time) in another--while flipping between your inbox and your browser to work on your blog during the movie's boring parts--this laptop can manage it all without a hiccup.