Practical and inexpensive gadget "Lenovo G50" will appeal to all users who do not impose excessive requirements for sound, powerful hardware and video card when buying a laptop. The mobile device is more impressed by a business suit and office lighting.
In this article, the reader will get acquainted with one of the cheapest laptops on the mobile market (20-25 thousand rubles), learn the technical characteristics. Description and feedback from the owners will help make the right choice for the potential buyer in the future.
Market positioning
It is easy to guess that the manufacturer did its best to offer the market the cheapest laptop in a budget class. For these purposes, he not only underestimated the technical specifications of the Lenovo G50 mobile device, but also deprived him of the operating system. But if a potential buyer takes a closer look at the gadget, it will discover a strange feature - the device’s performance is sufficient for working with office applications, surfing the Internet and multimedia entertainment.
Many owners of this laptop note that the low cost in the market for mobile devices in the budget class is still the main selection criterion for most buyers. Therefore, this gadget does not need advertising.
Getting to know your laptop
A yellow cardboard box with a plastic handle in plain text tells the buyer that the manufacturer was saving as much as he could. There are no glossy images on the packaging displays, and the specifications are written in small print. You don’t have to expect much from the standard equipment of a budget representative: the Lenovo G50 gadget itself, a charger for it, a removable battery or an instruction manual.
Although the laptop is in the economy class, it seems that the manufacturer on plastic in the manufacture of the case did not save. The device cover, panels and bottom are made of high strength material. All plastic edges are perfectly adjusted to each other, nothing creaks and does not emit extraneous sounds. Only the glossy surface of the plastic case confuses - it collects dust and fingerprints very easily. True, many users note in their reviews that all dirt is just as easy and wiped off the surface of the laptop.
Convenient interfaces
On the right side, the user will find a built-in optical drive with support for reading and writing DVDs. Next to him was a card reader. True, it is difficult to call it such a universal word, because he understands only two types of memory cards: MMC and SD. The headphone output and USB 2.0 connector complement the right interface panel. There is Kensington Castle, but its popularity in our country is reduced to zero.
The left side of the Lenovo G50 is no less interesting: one USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 port, D-Sub analog output, HDMI digital video output and RJ-45 network interface. In fact, nothing more is needed for a full-fledged work. The network adapter is also connected to the side face. The manufacturer foresaw that the laptop would be used in office environments, and left the back and front faces clean. This decision is clearly in favor of free space on the employee’s desk.
Display Features
The weak link is the screen that the Lenovo G50 laptop is equipped with. Its characteristics are returned to the buyer a decade ago: a TFT screen with a 15.6-inch matrix made using TN + Film technology has a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels per inch. Fortunately, the manufacturer installed an LED backlight, which is still able to normalize color reproduction and improve viewing angles.
In their reviews, many owners note the problem of glossy screen coverage. Firstly, it collects fingerprints, which are not as easy to wipe as from the surface of the case. Secondly, gloss has the ability to shine in the light. For convenience, the laptop should be placed so that sunlight or an incandescent lamp is in front of the laptop, and not behind the user.
Sound and multimedia
Technologists who launched the Lenovo G50 laptop into the market are not understood by many owners. In expensive devices, the sound subsystem leaves much to be desired, and in the cheapest gadget, the manufacturer installs quite decent acoustics. Dolby Advanced Audio v2 is responsible for the sound transmission (users know it from ASUS and MSI budget laptops). For such an inexpensive device, the sound is quite decent, if you do not turn up the volume to maximum. It is worth noting that the sound quality improves significantly when you connect an active stereo system or headphones to the laptop.
But users have a lot of questions about the WEB-camera. The manufacturer's 1 megapixel resolution is a real fraud for buyers. Having disassembled the device, any owner will find a mark on the chip that states that the camera has a resolution of 0.3 megapixels. Software interpolation from smartphones has already reached laptops (are there really going to be cameras next?)
Input device
A strict and full-sized keyboard is one of the advantages that the Lenovo G50 laptop has. User reviews, in this case, are the same. An office device must have just such an input device. All the buttons on the keyboard are separate from each other, the key travel is short, with little impact to the finger. For ease of management, the manufacturer provided the laptop with function keys.
Some owners note that the plastic base of the keyboard is slightly pushed down while typing, but this does not interfere with the work. There is a negative to marking the letters themselves on the keys of the device. The manufacturer put the Cyrillic and Latin letters with the same paint (by the way, the function buttons, too). Typing in such a monochrome layout is a bit unpleasant for users.
Touch pad
Only the Lenovo G50-45 laptop’s touchpad specifications are immaculate. It is made for people and all owners respond flatteringly about the manufacturer in this regard. The surface of the touch pad is rough, its borders are perfectly felt. It’s a pleasure to control the cursor: you can draw it along the diagonal of the screen with one movement, or you can draw it in special programs by adjusting the sensitivity. You can also forget about ghostly clicks, the touchpad does not respond to dust.
The touch pad supports multi-touch. Accordingly, full gesture control is supported when installing the latest Windows operating system. The touchpad is endowed with mechanical buttons. They work as clearly and loudly as a mouse on a manipulator. Accidental clicking is completely ruled out.
Dismantling and cleaning the device
It is believed that the most popular question among users who have a Lenovo G50-30 laptop is “how to open a laptop for cleaning at home.” The problem is that the manufacturer did not worry about the convenience of cleaning: you need to completely disassemble the mobile device in order to get there and the cooling system.
In the reviews of the owners there are small instructions that recommend not carrying a laptop to a service center and not wasting money. You can remove dust from the laptop using a powerful vacuum cleaner, however, for this you need an assistant who will cover the radiator grilles with dense material to create traction. These recommendations are working, you can safely take them into service, but before the first cleaning it is still recommended to watch the video instructions so that you do not accidentally tear off a pair of capacitors from the motherboard with a powerful stream of air.
Finally
A review of the Lenovo G50 mobile device once again proves to a potential buyer that even the cheapest gadget on the market is able to cope with any tasks assigned to it (unless it comes to toys). The budget representative of Lenovo is able to replace the workstation both in the office and at home, and this is 90% of the market for computer devices. Do not forget about mobility, because such a low-resource laptop can work without supplying electricity for half a day on a single battery charge.