LenovoIdeaPad U310 13.3-Inch Touchscreen Ultrabook (Graphite Gray)

I've nothing to complain about with this purchase, which is saying something, indeed. Once upon a time, you had to pay high prices for the power to support a multimedia and gaming platform, and I tend to buy very high-powered laptops over the years as a rule, because I cannot stand the performance of machines that are designed to be energy efficient and preserve battery life. While this isn't on the level of getting an overclocked i7 desktop with the latest Nvidia graphics card and liquid cooling ... let me put it this way: it's so efficient it doesn't need the cooling. For comparison, this is replacing an old 2006 Vaio laptop of mine that runs XP (not one of my high-powered machines, but one that I had converted for multimedia use). Merely playing a lot of youtube videos on that old Vaio would cause that machine to run so remarkably hot that it was painful to touch. This Lenovo, however, stays very cool for the entire duration of playing movies or games. W/r to games, unless you're playing the most demanding games (e.g., Skyrim or SWTOR with the highest details and options set), you likely won't notice any performance issues, either.The real attraction of this laptop, however, is its touchscreen. I was unwilling to purchase a Windows 8 laptop without a touchscreen mostly because Windows 8 -begs- for touchscreen capability, as the mouse/keyboard alternatives aren't exactly intuitive. This is a nice, small, light laptop that does just about everything you might ever ask of it (outside of the most performance-demanding video games), and has full touchscreen capability with all of the Windows 8 touchscreen-enabled apps ready to go. Add Office 365 and VPN, and it fulfills work, play, email, video needs.It's interesting what they leave off, to keep it small and light: it has no CD/DVD drive. Once upon a time, CD technology was fast and light and way more efficient than the alternatives. Now, it's far more economical to stream videos on the fly, or download games online services, instead of buying several CDs or DVDs to install/play. Technology is still leaping ahead, folks, in spite of the current economy, and this is a remarkably frugal means to get the latest tech and play with it.For the record, this is the 3rd laptop I've bought from Amazon, and I find shopping for laptops this way to be far superior to checking out whatever happens to be in stock at local stores. The detail in the description and reviews is more than enough to determine whether it is a good purchase. I'm used to being disappointed. I expect disappointment. I was always disappointed with store-purchased laptops. Amazon-purchased laptops haven't disappointed me yet.The only issues that I might imagine anyone having with this laptop are that it's Windows 8, and the UI is very touchscreen-oriented. If you aren't used to the new OS or touchscreens, it can be a bit of a leap from Windows 7 with mouse and keyboard.

Absolutely fantastic ultrabook. got it for 600 a really good deal. it is realy fast.i can notice some fingerprints in the screen but that was expected. it starts up very quickly. i have put microsoft office 2013 and is working very well. i heard that some people had issues with the wifi, well, so far so good, nohing has happened. i love the fact that is has got an hdmi and two 3.0 usb ports, you can notice the speed difference between a 3.0 and a 2.0. the only thing i would improve is the battery life, at the moment i'm getting 3-4 hours of constant use, the other thing i would include is a backlit keyboard.overall this is a great product, it is really useful for students. this pc is really thin and light. i'm giving it four stars because of the battety life and the backlit keyboard. for 550 bugs this is a great deal.p.d battery won't die if you're plugged to ac, this is the only way you can get more battery life

I bought this laptop because of it's size, weight and because it had a touch screen. It also had Windows 8 which is another story and not relevant here. The actual physical computer met all my expectations and I am very pleased. However, I bought this in the beginning of July (it was delivered 2 weeks later) and in the beginning of September the computer would not start up. When attempting to start the computer a blue screen appeared saying there was a problem and the system was gathering data and attempting to resolve. This continued to occur every time the computer went into sleep mode and/or I tried to start it up. I called Lenovo CS and they attempted to resolve it. It worked for about 4 days and then started the same error. I called again. They totally rebooted my system (I lost my purchased software, of course, although I had backed up my data files) and said it should work now. It worked one time and then repeated the same error. I called CS again and they said I would have to send it for repair. They will not replace it.A word about Customer Service: while the service techs may speak English (more or less) they do not understand English. It is very difficult to explain any situation at all to them from the problems with the computer to issues regarding the return of the computer for repairs. For example: I live in the middle of nowhere and the closest FedEx drop off center is 60 miles away. I could not get that information across. It took half an hour just to have them tell me they would send FedEx to my door.Bottom line this computer worked for about 45 days and Lenovo will not replace it. I have very little faith that they will repair it so it will work satisfactorily.I have always had Dell products in the past and would have done so again except they did not have the small, light laptop I was looking for. More's the pity!Edited:12/21/2013: Well I have had my laptop back for about 1 month now. It is partially fixed. As long as I do not let it go "to sleep" the issues have not reoccurred. However, if it goes to sleep when I attempt to start it up again, the system locks and has to recycle itself (same as before).The latest problem is that the hinge holding the screen to the keyboard is now breaking apart. Lest you wonder I am a 66 year old female who uses the laptop about 20 hours a week while sitting on my couch. I haven't dropped it nor do I carry it anywhere unless it is securely strapped into a padded laptop case.DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!