Lenovo W520 Owner's Thread

[palhello]

I bought this spec through Friends and Neighbour program lenovo Canada

Intel Core i7-2720QM (Quad-Core) Processor (2.20GHz, 6M Cache with Turbo Boost up to 3.30GHz)
15.6" HD+ (1600 x 900) LED backlight Anti-Glare display, with Wireless WAN Antenna
NVIDIA Quadro 1000M Optimus Graphics technology (2GB)
Colour sensor
4 GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz SODIMM Memory (1 DIMM)
Keyboard - US English
UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) Fingerprint Reader, Smart Card Reader
720p HD Camera with Microphone
Storage subsystem Internal RAID - Not Enabled
500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
System expansion slots Express Card Slot, 4-in-1 Card Reader & Smart Card Reader
Battery 9 Cell 2.8Ah Li-Ion Battery
Bluetooth Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 with antenna
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN
Language pack Publication - US English

price - $1158 (without taxes)

I'm thinking could I have gotten this for any cheaper ??

[B'midbar]

It's been recommended to me to use Acronis. I did a search online about Acronis Home True Image 2011 and it appears that quite a few people are having issues with it.

Does anyone hear have specific experience with it that they can share?

Yes, stay away from it unless you have current backups and like doing restores. Macrium's a much better product IMHO.

Cheers, B

[Colonel O'Neill]

Yeah I got really frustrated with Acronis.

Windows Backup for me. :P

[Neccie]

Do a Google search for Windows 7 symlink. I run the OS and my program files on the 80GB Intel mSATA, made a symlink to point my user profile and my documents to the main 500GB drive.

Cheers, B

One way is to make a "ntfs juntion" from your users folder to another on your second disk. e.g. c:\users\username to d:\whatever
Works flawless here apart from the fact that your 2nd drive won't spindown/eject if it's a traditional disk.
Here's a link to a guide

[biznatch11]

I bought this spec through Friends and Neighbour program lenovo Canada

Intel Core i7-2720QM (Quad-Core) Processor (2.20GHz, 6M Cache with Turbo Boost up to 3.30GHz)
15.6" HD+ (1600 x 900) LED backlight Anti-Glare display, with Wireless WAN Antenna
NVIDIA Quadro 1000M Optimus Graphics technology (2GB)
Colour sensor
4 GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz SODIMM Memory (1 DIMM)
Keyboard - US English
UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) Fingerprint Reader, Smart Card Reader
720p HD Camera with Microphone
Storage subsystem Internal RAID - Not Enabled
500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
System expansion slots Express Card Slot, 4-in-1 Card Reader & Smart Card Reader
Battery 9 Cell 2.8Ah Li-Ion Battery
Bluetooth Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 with antenna
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN
Language pack Publication - US English

price - $1158 (without taxes)

I'm thinking could I have gotten this for any cheaper ??

That's about what I paid for mine with similar specs about 2 months ago, looks good. Not sure if you've already bought it or not, but do you really need the colour sensor? I don't know how much it costs but unless you're doing professional graphics and colour work you probably don't need it. And if you're doing that kind of work I'd think you'd want the FHD screen instead of the HD+.

[Kuroi-Tsubasa]

That's about what I paid for mine with similar specs about 2 months ago, looks good. Not sure if you've already bought it or not, but do you really need the colour sensor? I don't know how much it costs but unless you're doing professional graphics and colour work you probably don't need it. And if you're doing that kind of work I'd think you'd want the FHD screen instead of the HD+.

Color sensor is about ~$70. I think that money would be better spent on upgrading that 900p display to 1080p.

[palhello]

I`ve already bought it (yet to be shipped and delivered though). Colour Sensor was $0.00 at lenovo canada, so I just got it, no price. So what do you guys think, will the price come down too much during the holiday season.

[badhabit_wb]

Yes, stay away from it unless you have current backups and like doing restores. Macrium's a much better product IMHO.

Cheers, B

I've been using it since may with no issues.I've made images with it and also used the nonstop backup option as well. I've not had any issue with it and i've reimaged ssd's and hdd's with it. Not sure what problems people are having with it but so far it's worked great for me. Here's the score I got yesterday on an intel 510 that was imaged using acronis. NVIDIA Quadro 2000M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,LENOVO 4270CTO score: 19736 PCMarks

[Thors.Hammer]

You really don't need Acronis or Macrium these days. If you install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 into a boot from VHD environment, "backup" consists or making a copy of a single file.

If you need to restore a single file, just mount the VHD and grab it.

It's amazing to me how many people haven't bothered to even try the technology.

[Dekabal]

How do you guys think the W520 compares to the HP Dv6 laptop as a main computer for videos, programming, and medium gaming? If you also know how the 1080p screens compare on both laptops, that would help me immensely because no one of the HP forums seems to know.