Lenovo G50 – 80E30130US / 80E3007FUS Cheap Laptop with Big Hard Drive

With budget-class Windows notebooks starting at as low as $250, the Lenovo G50 – 80E30130US or 80E3007FUS isn’t among the cheapest. It costs $300, but is still undeniably good buying choice. Alongside the low-cost design and usual 15.6-inch 1366×768 display, the Lenovo G50 – 80E30130US, also known as 80E3007FUS, offers a great computing potential. The included AMD A6-6310 processor easily outranks the Intel Celerons used in the 250-dollar laptops, while the hard drive space of 1 Terabyte is double the size of an average notebook HDD which is 500GB large. To complement them, 4GB of system memory.

The A6-6310 is a mid-range chip. Besides for web surfing, text and spreadsheet editing, multimedia playback and similar light tasks, it’s also good for casual gaming thanks to the integrated Radeon R4 series graphics. It capable of pushing playable frame rates in the demanding titles on low resolution and settings, as well as good peformance in MMORPGs and less demanding first person shooters on mid-to-high settings and resolution. 4GB of RAM is quite enough for normal functioning of Windows and multitasking with many apps.

Lenovo’s G50 – 80E30130US / 80E3007FUS is equipped with a built-in DVD drive, AccuType keyboard with ergonomic keys, and trackpad with physical click buttons. For audio experience, it has Dolby-certified stereo speakers, while for video conferencing it has a 720p web camera. There are two USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0 port, HDMI and VGA connectors for external displays, a multiformat media card reader, Wi-Fi wireless connection, Ethernet LAN network port, and Bluetooth.

The Lenovo has an utilitarian design with no excess ornaments. The chassis is made of plastics, with brushed metal-like finish on the keyboard deck. The profile is an inch thin. As for the weight, the 80E3007FUS measures 4.6 pounds which is pretty much light for a 15.6″ laptop with DVD drive.

The notebook is upgrade-friendly, meaning thing is has dedicated doors on the bottom of the casing for easy access to RAM and hard drive.

The battery life lasts up to six hours, according to the official specifications. It is user-removable.