The Lenovo N308 is affordable all-in-ones desktop. The desktop's luminous 19.5-inch display and smooth Tegra 4 graphics performance make it a solid choice for watching movies and playing games.
Design
A slim, all-black body, the Lenovo N308's design rests somewhere in between a small monitor and giant tablet. The all-in-one's thick bezel is mostly bare, with a 720p webcam at the top and no touch-capacitive buttons to be found at the bottom.The desktop's power and volume buttons sit just behind the PC's top right edge, a placement that forced us to reach around the display and fumble blindly for these controls.
The N308 have a silver stand that can be adjusted from roughly 20 to 80 degrees. You can also fold up the stand and lay the system flat for tabletop games.
The N308 is easy to carry from room to room, with a weight of just 10.2 pounds.
Keyboard and mouse
The N308 comes with Lenovo's AccuType wireless keyboard as well as a wireless mouse. The other accessory sports a comfortable set of curved, black island-keys, with a full numeric pad and dedicated buttons for Android functions like Home and Back. There are also standalone keys for launching the camera, changing the volume and opening the included File Expert App.The keyboard has a travel of 2.5 millimeters, which is shorter than the 3-millimeter category average. The AccuType's keys require 60 grams of pressure to activate, which is a bit higher than the category average actuation of 55 grams. Because the keyboard's below-average travel was met by above-average resistance, we found the level of feedback satisfying.
Display
1600 x 900 resolution stretched across a 19.5-inch screen, the N308's lack of full HD is noticeable.
The Lenovo desktop provides an average brightness of 225 nits, which outshines the 201-nit Aspire Z3 and is almost on par with the 226-nit average for all-in-ones.
The N308 could represent 111 percent of the sRGB color gamut, conveying more color than the 103-percent category average.
The N308's screen supports multitouch gestures functonality, though we experienced some shakiness when scrolling up and down websites and pinching to zoom on photos.
Performance
The N302 is powered by Nvidia's 1.8-GHz Tegra 4 T40S processor, the N308 provided solid performance for entertainment and gaming.Any game can run smoothly on the all-in-one, even with 10 Chrome tabs and the camera app open in the background.The N308's 12,862 Quadrant score fell short of the Tegra 4-powered Slate 21 (14,138). HP's all-in-one also slightly outperformed the N308 on our Vidtrim test, as it transcoded a 1080p video in 3 minutes and 53 seconds, compared to the N308's time of 4:06. Both desktops took 22 seconds to load "N.O.V.A. 3."
Lenovo's all-in-one booted Android 4.2.2 in 29 seconds, which is slower than the 24-second all-in-one average. That's a surprise, given that most all-in-ones run Windows.