The Lenovo G450 is a 14-inch screen laptop designed for buyers that are on a budget but still want a laptop that is of decent quality and portable enough to take places outside of the home or office. The Lenovo G450 could be a good laptop for students as they certainly have to be cost conscious and portability is necessary to be able to easily carry a laptop in your backpack. I recently found the G450 for a great price so decided to pick it up and try it out for some of the school work I do.
Lenovo G450 is powered by
Intel Core 2 Duo processor , 14.0-inch WXGA LED Backlight TFT with 1366×768 resolution, 4GB or 3GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB or 250GB Hard Drive Storage (5400 RPM), a NVIDIA GeForce G 210M with 512MB of VRAM or Intel HD Video X4500, DVD burner, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 6-cell battery, 1-year warranty and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
The Intel Pentium T4300 dual core processor that comes with the IdeaPad G450 clocks in at 2.10GHz, although it’s not branded as a more fancy Core 2 Duo processor, the Pentium T4300 actually performs well, So you have no need to worry about the G450 being underpowered if you get the Pentium T4300 processor. In fact, I recommend this processor because it is a lot cheaper than the G450 with the Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 2.40GHz processor.
Overall I found the performance of the
Lenovo G450 to be really quite good, especially for a budget laptop that has a low price of around $500. There is never any slow down when using the computer, though the most I demanding thing I did was watching HD video on sites like YouTube and Hulu.com, the processor had no problems keeping up with the demanding flash decoding that has to be done for HD video.
Download Driver Lenovo IdeaPad G450, G550 for Windows XP / Windows 7 | Description | Version | Size | OS | Download |
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| Chipset | | | | |
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| Intel | 9.0.0.1011 | 1.99 MB | WinXp | |
| Display | | | | |
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| Intel | 6.14.10.5002 | 12.1 MB | WinXp | |
| nvidia | 6.14.11.8611 | 76.1 MB | WinXp | |
| Intel | 8.15.10.1994 | 24.5 MB | Win7 | |
| nvidia | 8.16.11.8898 | 78.8 MB | Win7 | |
| Audio | | | | |
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| Conexant | 3.83.0.0 | 11.3 MB | WinXp | |
| Conexant | 4.119.0.60 | 30.3 MB | Win7 | |
| Wireless | | | | |
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| Intel | 12.4.0.21 | 88.2 MB | WinXp | |
| Intel WiMAX | 4.1.25.15 | 15.2 MB | WinXp | |
| Broadcom | 5.10.38.14 | 18.5 MB | WinXp | |
| Intel | 12.4.1.11 | 2.4 MB | Win7 | |
| Intel WiMAX | 5.1.29.5 | 27.9 MB | Win7 | |
| Broadcom | 5.30.21.0 | 19.5 MB | Win7 | |
| Ethernet | | | | |
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| Broadcom | 11.7.2.0 | 81.1 MB | WinXp | |
| Realtek | 5.756.322.2010 | 5.5 MB | WinXp | |
| Broadcom | 12.2.0.3 | 108 MB | Win7 | |
| Realtek | 7.18.322.2010 | 5.6 MB | Win7 | |
| Camera | | | | |
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| Camera | 6.96.2018.19 | 75.3 MB | WinXp | |
| Camera | 6.96.2018.03.1 | 75.3 MB | Win7 | |
| TouchPad | | | | |
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| Alps | 7.7.1602.320 | 4.3 MB | WinXp | |
| Alps | 7.7.1602.501 | 3.1 MB | Win7 | |
| CardReader | | | | |
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| Realtek | 6.1.7600.30105 | 7.4 MB | WinXp | |
| Realtek | 6.1.7600.30101 | 10.4 MB | Win7 | |
| Bluetooth | | | | |
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| Broadcom | 5.1.0.5400 | 98.2 MB | WinXp | |
| Broadcom | 6.2.0.9000 | 57.7 MB | Win7 | |