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After all the new and expensive ultrabooks that we have reviewed made by Lenovo, the time has come to introduce an older, but cheaper one. It belongs to the IdeaPad series that is aimed at the low end of the market that is the most vast consumer part and in that part of the market it is the hardest thing to be unique. This ultrabook doesn’t shine with hardware, or with its design or manufacturing process, but it sticks out with its price.

The one that we are reviewing goes with the suffix (59336184) and it is the only one in this series that doesn’t have Ivy Bridge architecture.  In its core beats a hearth of a dual-core i3 processor, made for ultrabooks, coded as 2367 and it works on 1.4GHz and has 3MB of SmartCache. It doesn’t have Turbo mode, but it can easily work with the less demanding jobs like office, or even running a full HD movie. The integrated HD 3000 GPU can run old games, but don’t even think about playing something newer with a double digit frame rate.  For the ones with deeper pockets there is an Ivy Bridge i5 processor in the offer, but it comes with a much steeper price.

This ultrabook comes with 4GB DDR3 memory and a 500GB HDD that works on 5200 rpm, that is not a speed champion, but it does its job very well.  The more expensive models come with a hybrid solution that is a combination of this mentioned HDD with 32GB SSD storage.

It has a relatively good screen that has a TN matrix, 13.3 inch- 1366×768 pixel and relatively bad viewing angles, but good color saturation and contrast.

The good thing is that they didn’t spare money when it comes to the wireless, because they put inside a Centrino chip that is more expensive.

The housing is made out of aluminum and high quality plastic. The keyboard is AccuType that is great with great spacing and depth of the keys. The touch pad is big and with a great response. The battery life measures 4 hours, in an office environment, which is quite solid. From connectors perspective it has 3xUSB 3.0 ports and HDMI, that is enough for this kind of ultrabook.

We have to congratulate Lenovo for making an ultrabook with good specs and price that was formerly reserved for the 15.4 inch notebooks.