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The Idea Pad Y550 by Lenovo is a glossy, big and plastic machine much different from the company’s sleek, understated business ThinkPad. This laptop from Lenovo is a mid-range, nice multimedia machine including many extra features to enable you easy customization of your rig. As it provides solid multimedia and gaming performance along with discrete graphics option, it will be well appreciated by multimedia fans. The good LED backlight display does a fine job while watching movies and has standard outputs for HDTV. The battery life supports you well through a loud and long action flick and its deep and responsive keyboard gives a feel of typing on full-size desktop keys. The machine was released recently in august 2009 and has a price tag of $1050. The Idea Pad Y550 may not be a bargain, and it doesn’t contain the style of some of the competitor machines, but packs a solid bang for the buck certainly.

The customization from the base Pentium dual-core to Core 2 Duo P9600 processor with speed of 2.66 GHz along with 6MB of L2 cache is possible and so with these processors options which are capable of running the 64-bit Windows Vista versions, you can upgrade for 4 GB of DDR3 SDRAM, however upgrading to get the best processor is not much needed for this machine. There is an audio output and an audio input jack and 15.6 inch 720p screen makes movie watching much fun on Idea Pad Y550.

There is also an Express card 34 slot on laptop’s side and multimedia card reader around the front of this laptop. There’s even a Movie Mode touch sensitive button near the screen that switches the settings to a more dim and cinema-friendly mode. The innovative One Key Recovery system is really helpful and best feature of Lenovo Idea Pad Y550.

The Dolby speakers and subwoofers are not very impressive and so is the time consuming Veriface logon. Lenovo should have focussed more on adding more multimedia software than so many security options. These plenty of security bloats slows down the performance of machine. In spite of these cons, the laptop makes for a solid device and packs plenty of punch and is available in a variety of configurations and range starting from $550 up to $1400 when fully loaded.