The good: Great keyboard, bright screen, solid performance.
The bad: Thick and heavy, annoying rubberized trackpoint.
The bottom line: The budget-minded Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 does its job as a solid small-business laptop, and Lenovo finally throws in a DVD drive, but it's too chunky compared with svelte competitors.
Review:
The ThinkPad Edge series was introduced at the beginning of 2010, and was pitched as a sexier, more affordable midrange alternative to a venerable but staid ThinkPad line. Back then, its sole representative was a 13.3-inch model ThinkPad Edge with no optical drive and a low-voltage Core 2 Duo processor.
The new 14- and 15-inch ThinkPad Edge models change the equation slightly with built-in DVD drives and faster processors, but the look and feel is largely the same. The ThinkPad Edge 14 comes with either AMD or Intel CPUs; on the Intel side, it's a full-voltage Core i3/ ... Expand full review
The new 14- and 15-inch ThinkPad Edge models change the equation slightly with built-in DVD drives and faster processors, but the look and feel is largely the same. The ThinkPad Edge 14 comes with either AMD or Intel CPUs; on the Intel side, it's a full-voltage Core i3/ ... Expand full review
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