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Lenovo’s affordable Ultrabook laptop computer

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style="text-align: left;">Lenovo has added a new href="http://www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding=UTF8&node=3269423011&tag=laptcompplan-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957" target="_blank">Ultrabook style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=laptcompplan-20&l=ur2&o=1" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> to it’s product line-up and this time the model is below 00. The 13.3″ Lenovo IdeaPad U300e allows for anyone with href="http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=FCD79A69713E9AD8F7095EC688083500&action=init" target="_blank">9.20 (not counting taxes and shipping) to get a good Ultrabook laptop computer.

Design wise you can’t really tell the U300e apart from the more expensive 13.3″ title="Lenovo IdeaPad U300s" href="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/tag/lenovo-ideapad-u300s/" target="_blank">Lenovo IdeaPad U300s or 14″   title="Lenovo IdeaPad U400" href="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/tag/lenovo-ideapad-u400/" target="_blank">U400. That’s because Lenovo has intentionally kept the same sleek metal design they introduced last year with the new IdeaPad U series laptop computers. The only real changes have been made with specific components, if you compared the U300e to the other U series Ultrabooks.

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style="text-align: left;">Internally the U300e comes with a 1.60GHz Intel Core i5-2467M dual-core processor, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 4GB of DDR3 1333MHz memory, and 532GB of storage space (500GB HDD, 32GB SSD). Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, a 1.3MP webcam and microphone, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI output, USB 3.0, a multi-touch trackpad, full chiclet keyboard, a 4-cell battery good for an estimated 7 hours of life, and a 1366×768 resolution 13.3″ LED back-lit screen are also included with the 2.50 Lenovo IdeaPad U300e Ultrabook.

How they kept the price low

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Compared to their other Ultrabooks Lenovo has really kept the starting price of the U300e at an affordable level. Now a 0 laptop is still expensive, but relative to the prices of other Ultrabooks from Lenovo or it’s competitors the U300e isn’t overpriced.

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By examining the features I can tell that Lenovo was able to offer the U300e at it’s lower price by including only 32GB of solid state storage in the machine. The base U300e is equipped with dual storage drives, a 500GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive and a small 32GB SSD. An SSD is still a very costly addition to any computer, although from the recent past prices are starting to come down.

The U300e’s limit of only 32GB of SSD storage –SSD storage is a lot faster than HDD storage, so the more the merrier– isn’t helped by the fact that you can’t upgrade to more SSD storage direct from the Lenovo website or by opening the laptops case and upgrading it yourself. Lenovo’s competitors that offer lower cost Ultrabooks with only small amounts of SSD storage at least offer the option for buyers to upgrade to larger capacity drives as they place their order.

Your only option through Lenovo is to either get the more expensive Lenovo IdeaPad U300s that starts at ,499 with a 256GB SSD included.

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