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We also occasionally experienced some jumpiness where the pointer jerked off target when we attempted to double click on an icon. As we moved around the desktop and clicked on icons, we encountered occasional stickiness, where the pointer would stop abruptly, forcing us to swipe again. Placing the IdeaPad Z400 on our lap caused the music to sound muffled.Ĭlick to EnlargeIn our tests, the 3.6 x 2.4-inch buttonless touchpad wasn't as accurate as we would have liked. #LENOVO IDEAPAD 400 NTOUCH SOFTWARE#Enabling the preloaded Dolby Home Theater v4 software made the tunes sound warmer but distorted. ![]() When we played both the bass-heavy "Forget Me Nots" and the guitar-and-drum-centric "Shout at the Devil," sound was clear, but distant. Music from the bottom-mounted speakers was loud enough to fill a large living room and reasonably accurate. We were also able to draw with all 10 fingers at once in Windows Paint. We swiped between apps, launched the Charms menu and pinched-to-zoom in applications like Bing News with ease. The screen's 10-point touch digitizer was smooth and responsive as we reached across the keyboard to touch the display. ![]() ![]() At 151 lux on our light meter, the Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 touch is a little dimmer than both the Toshiba Satellite U845T (174 lux) and the thin-and-light category average (206 lux) but brighter than the Asus VivoBook S400CA (123 lux). #LENOVO IDEAPAD 400 NTOUCH SKIN#Because of the display's modest resolution, fine details like the pores in a person's skin were harder to make out than on higher-resolution displays we've used. #LENOVO IDEAPAD 400 NTOUCH 1080P#When we played a 1080p trailer for "The Avengers," colors like the blue in Captain America's costume or the red in Black Widow's hair were particularly muted and lifeless.Ĭolors stayed true at up to 45 degrees to the right or left but washed out significantly at wider viewing angles. When we looked head on at the Windows 8 desktop, the default sunflower wallpaper appeared whitewashed until we tilted the screen back as far as it could go, about 30 degrees. Now that would be money well spent and truly enhance your enjoyment of your computer.Click to EnlargeIn our tests, the Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch's 14-inch, 1366 x 768 display provided fairly dull images. I would spend my monies on an SSD or SSHDD hard drive instead. RAM REQUIREMENTS: 2GB-Good only for stripped-down tablets, budget Chromebooks.ĤGB-Minimum for budget Windows and MacOS systems, great for Chromebooks.ĨGB-Excellent for Windows and MacOS systems and most gaming.ġ6GB-Ideal for professional work (Video Editing and large Spreadsheets) and, the most demanding of games.ģ2GB: Enthusiasts and purpose-built workstations only. It will automatically re-open all the tabs that you had not previously closed. If you are worried about losing your OPEN tabs just set your browser to "restart where you left off". Just doing this once in a while will usually clear up 1-3GB of RAM. The next re-start will "reset" the RAM and get rid of all those "remembered" items (stored memory) that you are no longer using. Check your Task Manager the next time you have 5, 10, 50 operations going at the same time and see just how much RAM you are actually using. I can't imagine what you could be doing that would require more than 8GB of RAM. Otherwise, you could put in 32GBs of RAM but the computer may only see 8GB. #LENOVO IDEAPAD 400 NTOUCH MANUAL#Check your Manual or Specs to see the max amount of Ram it can handle. Most Idea Pads are limited to 8-16GB of RAM. Your CPU may be able to handle 32GB of RAM, but, your motherboard may not. I've read that I should use identical chips from the same manufacturer but I want to make sure I'm not overlooking any crucial information like.Ī) Should I be reading up on my CPU or motherboard? Or am I safe with just finding bigger DDR3 chips of the same manufacturer (ie, two 8GB Hynix/Hyundai? DDR3 chips)?ī) How necessary is it for me to understand: nonECC vs ECC, DIMM vs LDIMM, Unbuffered vs Registered, or whatever other RAM variables I see differentiating RAM chips of the same model?Ĭ) Hypothetically speaking, could I order two 16GB chips, snap em' in and go nutz?ĭ) Recommending your favorite RAM guide or youtube video would also likely be beneficial and certainly be much appreciated :) #LENOVO IDEAPAD 400 NTOUCH WINDOWS 8.1#Don't know much about RAM but I have a Lenovo Ideapad P400 Touch running Windows 8.1 and Speccy told me I have:Ī quick google search of the same brand led me to these two 8GB chips: All idling in the background while I'm streaming, downloading torrents and with several PDFs or word docs in the mix for good measure. Each with enough tabs that I need to use Ctrl+Tab to navigate because the tabs appear blank and are too small to click. I am a tab-hoarder and capable of accumulating multiple google chrome windows at once. ![]()
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