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Lenovo 3000 C100

80

Good
  • Pros
  • Includes lots of features for the price
  • Cons
  • Design is fairly basic

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  • Pricing: Very Inexpensive: $873 (7/11/2007)
  • Performance: Fair: 67
  • Features: Good: 75
  • Design: Good: 74
Find out how these four scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Pricing

Very Inexpensive: $873

Performance

Fair: 67
World Bench 5 Tests - Fair: 77
World Bench 5 Component Results (seconds)
ACD Systems ACDSee 746 
Adobe Photoshop 374 
Adobe Premiere 571 
Ahead Nero 1387 
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX 445 
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL 732 
Microsoft Office XP 580 
Windows Media Encoder 490 
Mozilla 415 
Multitasking 773 
Musicmatch Jukebox 613 
Roxio VideoWave 460 
WinZip 484 
Battery Test
Number of Included Batteries 1 
Battery Life (Office Applications) 4:56 
Graphics Tests (frames per second)
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit 3.2 
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit 6.68 

Features

Good: 75
CPU & Memory
CPU 1.73-GHz Pentium M 740 
System Memory 512 
Type of Memory DDR2-533 SDRAM 
Video & Display
Display Size (inches) 15" Display 
Horizontal Resolution 1024 
Vertical Resolution 768 
Video Chip Set Intel 915GM 
Video Memory Using main memory 
External Monitor Interface integrated 
Wide Screen No 
Storage
Total HD Size (GB) 80GB Hard Drive 
Optical Drive Type DVD±RW 
Removable Optical Drive No 
Floppy Drive No 
Number of Media Slots 2 
Other Removable Media Drive Memory Stick, SD Card 
Ports & Expansion
Serial Ports No 
Parallel Ports No 
USB Ports 4 
FireWire Ports 1 
Microphone Ports Yes 
Headphone Jacks Yes 
S-Video Ports Yes 
Composite Video Ports No 
Docking Station Port No 
Infrared Port No 
Shared Mouse/Keyboard Port No 
Mini PCI Port Yes 
PC Card Slots 1 
Express Card Slots 0 
Connectivity
Network Port 10/100Base-T ethernet 
Wireless LAN Type 802.11a/g 
Bluetooth No 
Modem Type V.92 
Other
Standard Number of Batteries 1 
Type of Batteries Lithium ion 
Built-In Speakers Stereo 
Dimensions 13.1 by 11.0 by 1.5 
Min. Weight (lbs.) 6.3Lbs. 
Average Weight (pounds, with accessories) 7 
Accessories Notebook, battery, AC adapter, power cord 
Pointing Device Touchpad 
Multipurpose Bay n/a 
Operating System Windows XP Professional 
Included Software WordPerfect Office 12, Lotus SmartSuite Millennium, Corel Paint Shop Pro X 
Warranty & Support
Labor Warranty (years) One 
Parts Warranty (years) One 
Weekday Support Hours 24 
Saturday Support Hours 24 
Sunday Support Hours 24 
Toll-Free Support Yes 
Reliability & Service
Summary of results for all of brand's products in this category The PC vendor formerly known as IBM pleased its notebook users, who awarded Lenovo high grades in five categories, including product reliability, phone support, and hold time. Its one black spot was a below-average mark for replacing failed components. 
Reliability of brand's products in this category
Reports of products with core component problems Average 
Reports of products with failed components Average 
Reports of products with any significant problems Average 
Reports of products arriving with problems Average 
Overall satisfaction with reliability of brand's products in category Better than Average 
Service & Support Quality
Time spent holding for phone support Better than Average 
Overall quality of vendor's phone support Better than Average 
Reports of problems unresolved after contacting service Better than Average 
Overall quality of service Better than Average 

Design

Good: 74
About the Test Center

Lenovo 3000 C100 Review

by Kalpana Ettenson

- Making good on its promise to release new notebook and desktop PC models under its own brand, Lenovo now offers the 3000 C100. This low-cost laptop offers a nice assortment of features and solid performance for a great price, but it's no ThinkPad.

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User Reviews for Lenovo 3000 C100

  • Reviewed by: kvmurali32

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: sturdy, good performance, good customer support

    Weaknesses: aesthetics may be too plain for some

    Overall Evaluation: I've been using this laptop for more than a year. Being a student - mostly for programming, assignments, music and plenty of movies. I have been using the laptop quite extensively. leave it up running for a couple of days when I test a web server assignment. My display blacked out during the last week of my warranty but customer service replaced the part in three days. service was prompt, efficient & easy to contact.

  • Reviewed by: speedcharm

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Battery Life. Keyboard. Xp pro

    Weaknesses: medicore LCD, 512MB RAM

    Overall Evaluation: The battery life is really good and the keyboard is like Thinkpad, which feels really nice. XP pro is a much more efficient system than Vista. For a price like $400, it is a steal. My only compain is that LCD looks a little washed out. As for the ram, you might want to add another 512MB to make a total 1GB. Fortunately, nowadays the ram is dirty cheap . So it is not a big deal.

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