High-Def LED backlight display – A High-Def display with LED backlight technology which improves energy efficiency and battery life.The Planet’s best keyboards with Numeric Keypad – The same engineers that brought you the legendary keyboard design on ThinkPad notebooks bring you great tactile feel with intelligent layout and performance on the G530 notebook.The fully-loaded notebook that doesn’t unload your wallet.The all purpose Lenovo G550 notebook comes with features like a 15.6-Inch LED backlight display, integrated graphics and high-quality stereo speakers with 3D audio enhancement to deliver edge-of-the-seat entertainment.Best of all, it’s from Lenovo, makers of the award-winning ThinkPad.OneKey Rescue System – With the touch of a button, you can restore the system and recover valuable data. The OneKey Rescue System also recovers essential system files in the event of corruption, and can be used to initiate a virus scan before entering Windows.

Features

• 2.1GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor
• 3GB DDR2 Memory
• 250GB Hard Drive
• 3D sound enhancement – Creates virtual 3D sound effect, for a more immersive sound experience when watching video or playing games.
• Thoughtfully designed – Just 1.4-Inch thick and at 5.6lbs, with a 15.6 LED backlight screen and numeric keypad, the G550 has everything you need at an affordable price.

What can you expect for $500.
I’m a presentation technology specialist and I use laptops everyday for presentations and normally I would never buy a computer that costs less than $1200. Anything less than that and you’re asking for performance problems on all fronts; processor, RAM, graphics and hard drive.

First things first, this computer only cost $549 dollars or less.

This computer is not a workhorse by any means and is ugly as only a mother could love.
That being said, this is what can you expect.

Flimsy plastic body construction? Check.
The plastic looks and feels as cheap as what you paid for. Think of a low end DVD player that you can pick up at Walmart for $30 dollars. This computer does flex on the bottom but as long as you don’t handle it like the “Samsonite Gorilla” you’ll be fine. It does have a raised texture pattern on the surface to help you grip it better. The screen does not have a latch to secure it but that is not detrimental to me. One reviewer commented that the DVD drive popped open a couple of times because of the flexing of the case and I would refute that claim and suggest that it happens when a thumb or finger presses the eject button as has happened to me.
Rock solid
I’m a low end user. Checking email, some wordprocessing, watching DVD’s, downloading music and films… you get the idea.
First, this is an ugly machine, but I’ve come to love it. When I first pulled it out of the box it looked so cheap I was checking my invoice to see if it could be returned. Over the near three months I’ve had it, it has really grown on me.
A reviewer stated that it’s flimsy plastic. Hey buddy, I got news for you they’re ALL plastic in this range, and this isn’t flimsy at all. It does NOT flex when you pick it up like those faux, slick looking metallic ones that are magnets for fingerprints. And the raised texture surface pattern means no fingerprints. I’ve come to appreciate the ingenuity of this baby. It’s like the people at Lenovo decided to do away with any pretenses of being attractive and focused on building a rock solid laptop, at a great price (I got mine at newegg for $400).

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