Display and Design
The Lenovo Essential B40-45 (59-436667) features a 14-inch LED Anti-Glare type display with 1,366 x 768 pixel resolution. The full black coloured machine is 24.5mm thick and weighs 2.1kg. A standard keyboard and a multi-touch gesture supported touchpad form the input devices are typing and pointing purposes.
Processor and OS
The Lenovo Essential B40-45 (59-436667) is equipped with Dual-core AMD E1-6010 processor with a mere 1.3GHz clock speed. The RAM capacity is 4GB which is configurable to 8GB via memory slots. The graphics is ATI JET LE R5 M230 graphics processor with 2GB dedicated memory which allows quality gaming and multimedia applications. The Lenovo computer has no separate operating system except for the primary disk operating system (DOS).
Camera, Storage and Multimedia
This Lenovo Essential series notebook carries standard webcam for video chatting and other webcam related functions. SATA type hard disk drive (HDD) can pack a good 500GB worth of information. The sound units are stereo speakers with Dolby Advanced Audio and HD Audio Solution and digital microphone. The Tray load DVD drive is the optical drive to ease the job of transferring disk data to CDs and DVDs.
Connectivity and Battery
For the connection and networking purposes, the Lenovo Essential B40-45 (59-436667) Laptop contains Bluetooth 4.0, Ethernet 10/100 BASE-T, Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n, digital media reader, HDMI port etc. The 4-cell Li-ion battery comes under the hood and can offer continuous usage of the laptop for 4 hours.