This part will cover the display.

I have what Lenovo refers to as the "HD+" display. That equates to a 1600x900 pixel resolution, on a 16:9 wide screen display.

Screen quality:

The LED backlighting is even and fairly bright. Color rendition is good: the NVIDIA control panel gives a fairly wide ability to control finer details of the presentation. Like all LED-type screens, it is best used at maximum resolution.

The lighting adjustment steps are fairly large. However, the NVIDIA control provides additional fine tuning which should allow almost all users to find a brightness and contrast ratio that suits them.

Power users will want to pay a further $250 to upgrade to the high-brightness, full-gamut, 1920x1080 screen. It sounds like a beauty but wasn't in my budget for legal work. I do not have easy access to a screen spider, so i cannot comment on color accuracy.

The form factor is pleasant. I personally appreciate the wider black bezel, as it helps to remove distractions from the background. I find narrow bezels (or worse yet, narrow shiny bezels) to be less functional, albeit more "modern" looking.

The screen shape is acceptable but not ideal. The recent trend towards wider screens has made laptops better suited to display video and certain types of photos than to work on documents and spreadsheets.

For most attorneys, a 16:10 (or 16:9) ratio screen is actually preferable: once you have the task bar and application bar and other assorted information on screen, there can be precious little room left for actual text. You can use a very narrow monitor before you need to use a horizontal scroll bar to work, but we all use the vertical scroll bar often.

In this context, a relatively square screen would be an improvement. But there's little choice. The fact is that the huge consumer demand for video-capable laptops has driven the market for production. It's growing increasingly difficult to find "square" screens in these sizes.

Given the overall quality of the display, that doesn't seem to be a problem.

Next: pointing and input devices.