![]() In addition to WiDi, you have your choice of HDMI or VGA video outputs for connecting to external displays. Lenovo All of the touchscreen notebooks had highly reflective displays. The wired ethernet adapter, meanwhile, is limited to 100 mbps-I thought those adapters had gone the way of the PS/2 port. It also provides Bluetooth 4.0 support, and is compatible with Intel’s WiDi video-streaming technology. On the bright side, it’s a 2×2 adapter, meaning that it supports a maximum physical link rate of 300 mbps. Though Lenovo selected a high-quality Wi-Fi adapter-Intel’s Centrino Wireless-N 2230-it’s a single-band adapter that doesn’t give you any choice but to connect to crowded 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks. The IdeaPad Z400’s networking capabilities are a bit disappointing. The IdeaPad Z400 took a solid second place in our Notebook WorldBench 8.1 benchmark competition (behind the Acer Aspire E), with a score of 132, marking it as 1.3 times faster than our reference Asus VivoBook S550CA, which comes outfitted with a 24GB SSD cache for its hard drive. Unlike Lenovo’s higher-end notebooks, the Z400 does not embed a trackpoint in its keyboard however, I found that the trackpad and the touchscreen were all I really needed. ![]() The trackpad doesn’t have distinct right and left mouse buttons, but clicking in the lower right and left areas of the pad perform the same function. It lacks a dedicated numeric keypad, and there’s no provision for temporarily assigning letter keys on the right side an alternative function to serve as one, but I was happy to see the full-size arrow keys in the familiar inverted-T formation at the far edge.Īugmenting the touchscreen is a responsive trackpad that supports most Windows 8 gestures, including two-finger scrolling, swipe, zoom, and rotate. The island-style keyboard is fully backlit and feels great under the fingers. The IdeaPad Z400 comes with the type of top-notch keyboard that Lenovo is famous for building. ![]() The tests in this suite evaluate how well a system handles editing digital media files and encoding them to different formats. Lenovo provides 6GB of memory (as against Acer’s 4GB) packs a 1TB, 7200-rpm hard drive (versus the Aspire’s 500GB drive) and includes a DVD burner (Acer provides no optical drive at all). Still, it comes by most of that weight honestly. The downside to the solid construction is weight gain: Despite its smaller display, the Z400 outweighs the Acer by 0.7 pound. Though the display exhibits a little flex, the lower chassis is as rigid as some all-metal bodies I’ve tried to bend. Lenovo’s computer feels as rugged as Acer’s feels fragile. The Z400 is an attractive PC, with charcoal-colored soft-touch paint on the outside and a pretty carbon-fiber look on the inside. At 14.0 inches, its 1366-by-768-pixel display is much smaller than the Acer Aspire E’s 15.6-inch display but the IdeaPad Z400 boasts a ten-point touchscreen, whereas the Acer does not. Lenovo stuck with Intel’s third-generation Core processor for this budget-priced machine, pairing a 1.6GHz Core i5-3230M with 6GB of DDR/1600 memory. Lenovo Lenovo’s IdeaPad Z400 Touch is a strong contender.
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