ThinkPad SL510 Notebook Lenovo

With a low entry price, and the known qualities of the ThinkPad SL series is to convince both small businesses and multi-media friends to put on good materials and simple design value.

We got the SL510 in 2847 as a testing device that has an Intel Core 2 Duo T6670 with 2.2 GHz Intel integrated graphics GMA4500HD and a 15.6 inch screen with 1366 by 768 pixel resolution. The novelty: Lenovo is the SL-series is no longer solely on the matte screen, which is appreciated by business travelers for its Außentauglichkeit and his insensitivity, but utilizes an alternative to a glossy screen, makes the colors more shine and appeal to more multimedia and film fans would .

For our test device requires a Lenovo official public price of 649 euros cheaper trim levels, such as with a Celeron 1.8 GHz processor has been around for just over 400 euros on the Internet.

Since Lenovo took over in 2005, the rights to the ThinkPad from IBM, are now also notebooks in the ThinkPad family, the contact to the final consumer rather than business customers. The SL Series offers to some well-known qualities as a good keyboard, the TrackPoint, the hard disk, good software and the fingerprint sensor. These security features make the ThinkPad SL510 also for smaller companies.

The stable processing and sleek design are qualities which the score with ThinkPads for a long time and their fans have also been implemented at the ThinkPad SL510. However, business people and fans will miss some features: The Think Light, a good substitute for a keyboard light, was also saved, as the Ultra-Bay and the docking port. For multimedia fans would have it may be a slightly stronger graphics card and the processor would like to have a few more megahertz. In addition, the speakers deliver only a passable sound.

Total rely Lenovo for our tastes a little too much on the ThinkPad sounding name and wants to now multimedia fans as customers. In the SL-series, but between two stools: the multimedia sits a fingerprint reader users will be give a damn, while businessmen optional features like a bright screen or a Blu-ray drive is useless. Those who only a cheap entry into the ThinkPad series of searches and can live with the flaws, but gets some of the traditional qualities.