Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14 Inch FHD Laptop - (AMD Athlon Gold, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, Windows 10 S Mode) - Platinum Grey

Laptop arrived promptly. Worked staright out of the box with no hassle. Seems much faster than my previous Windows 10 laptop (Dell). It is a basic machine but at a low price so no surprise there. Screen seems a bit wishy-washy, keyboard nice and comfortable to use. Other than that all OK so far. I'll update this review after a bit more use.

I’ve looked into it, it hasn’t spoken to me, hasn’t cracked and or made me look 20’years younger.Despite all that it does what I need

Having spent the last year or so toiling away with a super entry level laptop this unit is a breath of fresh air. Most of my heavy usage like gaming or media creation is done on my desktop PC so I wasn't in need of a high powered laptop but even with that considered I'd recommend buying something like this laptop over a super cheap one.This is a proper PC compared to chromebooks etc especially once you've upgraded it a bit which is super cheap and easy. It's powered by an Athlon Gold 3150u which is a dual core CPU with 4 threads so for all intents and purposes it will perform like a quad core chip with only slightly less performance. For casual browsing and even fairly intensive workloads it will breeze through it. Obviously don't expect to be doing render projects on it etc but It'll deal with most productivity workloads you throw at it like spreadsheets etc.Fun fact, the current Athlon range use the same strong CPU cores as found in the Ryzen chips. They're just a different entry level range.The unit comes equipped with 4gbs of RAM which is fine to begin with however I'd highly recommend buying an extra stick of 2400mhz sodim RAM and sticking it in to up the capacity and make the memory work in dual channel which allows the GPU to work with a lot more memory bandwith. The max capacity the laptop can handle is 12gb so sticking an extra 8gb stick in is a good shout and only costs about £26.Speaking of which did you know this thing can game? Yep it most certainly can thanks to the onboard Vega 3 graphics. Now don't expect to be playing all modern games and definitely not at 1080p but the list of games I have been able to run so far includes Resident Evil 2 remake at 720p 60% resolution scale, Destiny 2 same res, Dragon Age Inquisition 720p, The Witcher 3 720p low settings.Those aren't exactly light weight games and with a little tweaking of the settings you can get them running at 30fps and they look absolutely fine on the smaller screen. You can even take advantage of AMD radeon's adrenaline drivers which gives you access to a slew of graphical effects to improve image quality further.For a £299 laptop with a few upgrades on top like extra ram and a larger hard drive you'll have a device that performs like a proper PC and can play some very recently released games. This is why AMD's mobile offerings appeal to me much more than Intel's current crop. The integrated graphics performance is on another level.A highly recommeded device.

Good value laptop, free upgrade to Windows 11. Battery life is not great, only lasts a few hours. But a good laptop for the price, lightweight and easy to use

My young son loves his laptop. It has a large screen and is more than enough for him in terms of functionality and speed.I bought it on Black Friday deal which made is superb value for money.

when brought on the sale this made for a great little buy, ideapads are so easy upgrade to, literally a few screws and everything is accessible right away for installing more ram ect, viewing angle on the screen could be better but its a minor gripe, the battery lasts ages too

Nice, budget friendly gaming laptop. Bought for my daughter who loves Minecraft & Roblox. Easy to set up, it has a voice over that talks you through (a bit like Alexa). Easily switches to windows 10/11 with a quick update so you can easily download. Not had any issues so far with storage. Sound quality is good however we use it with headphones. Overall very happy recommend as a first pc. Good budget pc for school/uni work or light gaming :)

This laptop has a great battery life and last me all day, while streaming videos and playing games! Also has a very fast response where you can click quickly between Google tabs or apps. The laptop is very light which is good to have on you lap on the go, easy to move around and the quality of the laptop is amazing no stiffness when opening :) The keyboard is amazing to use with keys feeling amazing to type with and the touch pad is an joy to use as it’s just the right size to have two hands on the touch pad to navigate through web pages. The set up took less than 20 minutes to complete making simple to get right to work!!!Will 100% this laptop to anyone on a budgetMy only thing that bugs me is that without a laptop Sleeve the colour of the laptop shows the every day dust that collects along the top and finger prints are easily seen. ( not a real issue! Just a silly thing I noticed )Leah