Lenovo Ideapad U510-59355296 15.6" UltraBook Professional Laptop, i5-3317U, 6GB RAM, 750GB HD+ 24GB

Pros: 15.6" screen, DVD drive, 6 hr battery life, numeric keypad, price, lightweight, stylish, slim, backlit keyboard

Cons: faulty trackpad, no standard VGA port (mini VGA is non standard and adapter is not available), HDMI to VGA adapter not included

I really like the 15.6" screen, DVD drive and a numeric keypad, which are not common features in ultrabooks. These features are very important to me. Based on this, I would rate this 5/5. However, the unit I received had a faulty trackpad. It randomly jumped around on click gestures, moved and clicked at random, was sluggish, didn't register scroll gestures correctly. Tweaking settings and sensitivities did not help. Without a properly functioning trackpad, I found the laptop to be useless and had to return it. I gave it a score of 2/5 because even though it has all these awesome features, a fundamental component was faulty. I'd rather have a basic laptop that works than a fancy one that doesn't quite work. Other than the trackpad, I totally loved this laptop.

The unit I received had an ELAN trackpad. For comparison, my old Dell has a Synaptics trackpad, and I have never had a problem with it.

Great laptop it's very quick and stylish. it has a lot of the nice features like a dedicated restore button, a backlit keyboard (which is awesome at night!) Super light weight and a great screen. I also feel in love with the HDMI port, its so nice to not have to fight with streaming it to the tv just plug it in and your done.( I use Logitech's touch mouse server on both the computer and my smart phone to control it from across the room and to freak out my girlfriend) The only problems I have it's a fingerprint Magnet, the speakers are not as robust as i would like them to be and windows 8.... Windows 8 is nice but it's built for a touch screen, and makes it sometimes hard to use with the track pad. All and all a great buy!

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