BirdbrainZ
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My apologies, I had some family matters to attend to over the weekend and only just had the time to snap a couple of photographs to do a short user review.
I'm overall pretty satisfied with my purchase. The notebook is suited for those who are in the market for a lightweight notebook with a dedicated graphics card - weighing in at 1.29KG.
The overall build quality is pretty decent with a little flex on the screen due to how thin it is, but the keyboard body housing is pretty solid, with virtually no flex that I am able to detect. Key travel is pretty shallow, but I'm personally fine with it (having been used to touch screen typing for more than four years), in fact, this is how I prefer my keyboards to be honest. The track-pad is pretty decent in that I find it responsive enough for most tasks.
Since I'm no audiophile, I can only say that the speakers is clear and loud enough should you jack up the volume. I usually leave it between 24% to 36% when indoors, and maybe 40% to 50% when outdoors.
The 710S PLUS comes with a glossy FHD IPS display. While I had initially hoped for a matte display as seen in the 710S models, after about a day of hands on usage both indoors and outdoors, I find myself liking the glossy display. There is no escaping reflections on a glossy display, it is simply physics at work. However, the IPS display does help mitigate the issue by having robust contrast and brightness. I'm not exactly sure what is at work here, but I haven't found the screen reflections to be bothersome enough to tweak the settings above 30% or 40% brightness setting - and this is while having an entirely black coloured background wallpaper which should highlight the issue even more. All I can say is that I'm happy with the glossy screen, which is puzzling. Side note, I do like the fact that the screen can recline backwards to an almost 180° angle for adjusting a preferred viewing angle.
Boot up to login screen takes about 6 seconds on average, and fingerprint recognition takes about 3 seconds to log you in. Overall, it takes less than 10 seconds on the whole.
Lenovo Ideapad 710S PLUS (GOLD)
13.3" FHD IPS screen 1920x1080p (glossy display)
Skylake i5-6200U
Win10 Home
8GB DDR4 Ram
512GB PCIe NVMe SSD
Nvidia Geforce 940MX 2GB GDDR5
309mm x 220mm x 14.8mm
1.29KG
* Since I'm not a professional tech reviewer, I'll just cover the things that I think consumers may be interested in, and end things here. I will entertain questions as best I can if any of you have them.
I'm overall pretty satisfied with my purchase. The notebook is suited for those who are in the market for a lightweight notebook with a dedicated graphics card - weighing in at 1.29KG.
The overall build quality is pretty decent with a little flex on the screen due to how thin it is, but the keyboard body housing is pretty solid, with virtually no flex that I am able to detect. Key travel is pretty shallow, but I'm personally fine with it (having been used to touch screen typing for more than four years), in fact, this is how I prefer my keyboards to be honest. The track-pad is pretty decent in that I find it responsive enough for most tasks.
Since I'm no audiophile, I can only say that the speakers is clear and loud enough should you jack up the volume. I usually leave it between 24% to 36% when indoors, and maybe 40% to 50% when outdoors.
The 710S PLUS comes with a glossy FHD IPS display. While I had initially hoped for a matte display as seen in the 710S models, after about a day of hands on usage both indoors and outdoors, I find myself liking the glossy display. There is no escaping reflections on a glossy display, it is simply physics at work. However, the IPS display does help mitigate the issue by having robust contrast and brightness. I'm not exactly sure what is at work here, but I haven't found the screen reflections to be bothersome enough to tweak the settings above 30% or 40% brightness setting - and this is while having an entirely black coloured background wallpaper which should highlight the issue even more. All I can say is that I'm happy with the glossy screen, which is puzzling. Side note, I do like the fact that the screen can recline backwards to an almost 180° angle for adjusting a preferred viewing angle.
Boot up to login screen takes about 6 seconds on average, and fingerprint recognition takes about 3 seconds to log you in. Overall, it takes less than 10 seconds on the whole.
Lenovo Ideapad 710S PLUS (GOLD)
13.3" FHD IPS screen 1920x1080p (glossy display)
Skylake i5-6200U
Win10 Home
8GB DDR4 Ram
512GB PCIe NVMe SSD
Nvidia Geforce 940MX 2GB GDDR5
309mm x 220mm x 14.8mm
1.29KG
* Since I'm not a professional tech reviewer, I'll just cover the things that I think consumers may be interested in, and end things here. I will entertain questions as best I can if any of you have them.
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