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Lenovo IdeaPad 1 15 inch Full HD Laptop - (AMD Ryzen 5-3500U, 8GB, 256GB SSD, Windows 11 Home in S mode) - Cloud Grey

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The Lenovo IdeaPad 5 brings you exceptional features for your digital life with the ideal blend of high performance, reliable connectivity, and immersive entertainment, all in a sleek design. Its Dolby Audio speakers with a user-facing setup elevate your audio experience. Plus, AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon graphics deliver the lightning-fast responsiveness you need to get the job done and enjoy entertainment to its fullest.

We test Windows PCs' graphics with two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark: Night Raid (more modest, suitable for laptops with integrated graphics), and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs).Price is another really important factor for analysing the quality of Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15.6in Ryzen 5 8GB 256GB Laptop vs other products in the Laptops and netbooks category. It’s obvious, but you will need to set your expectations of quality based on your budget and the price of the product you’re looking at, against the price of alternatives. Thankfully, switching from S-Mode to full Windows 11 is free, and not hard to do (Microsoft even provides instructions), but it's an odd hoop to jump through on a machine sold at retail.

The next step for us was to look at all of the products that fall within the Laptops and netbooks category, of which we found 151 products at Argos. So we pulled together all of the prices of these products to analyse the average prices as well as finding the cheapest and most expensive options. Plus, with the low-powered CPUs found in these sorts of budget models, we simply don't have high hopes. The IdeaPad's graphics capabilities not only prove to be unimpressive, but they also don't hold a candle to AMD Ryzen-powered systems, like the Acer Aspire 5. Ultimately, the Lenovo is a machine built for simple web browsing and maybe some YouTube. Battery and Display Tests One benefit of low-powered components is that battery life stretches farther when it doesn't have to drive faster components. And so, looking over the battery test results, we finally have a test that the IdeaPad 1 15 leads, stretching the 47Wh battery out to more than 12 hours of use. That's especially impressive in the context of similar budget systems, where you'll usually see inexpensive models break the 10-hour mark at best. As you can imagine, pricing is one of the most important factors of any purchasing decision. We can find the perfect product for our needs, that fits the brief in every single way. But if it doesn’t fit our budgets, we simply can’t (or at least shouldn’t) buy it. The brand of product you buy can vary in importance, from person to person. Some people will of course be much more particular about the brands they will use. Whilst others aren’t interested in the brand and are more interested in the overall quality or price of the product itself. Thankfully Lenovo is a brand that many customers have grown to love over the years and is very popular for items in the Laptops and netbooks category.

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Lenovo's 15-inch chassis accommodates a full keyboard with a compact numeric pad, which uses half-width keys. The arrow keys use a layout that fits four buttons into the space of three keys, with the up and down arrows getting their buttons but sharing a single key well. None of that is unique for a 15-inch system. This isn’t your typical laptop that you carry around—it’s a fashion statement. The IdeaPad 5 is built with a new level of attention to detail, making this machine soft and comfortable to the touch with a durable paint that creates a better user-experience and multiple color options, so you can find the one that best fits you. Find out why Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15.6in Ryzen 5 8GB 256GB Laptop scored an incredible review score of 8.7 out of 10. Of the 151 products, we discovered that 79 were more expensive and 69 were cheaper than Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15.6in Ryzen 5 8GB 256GB Laptop. Prices from Lenovo The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Laptops and netbooks category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from Lenovo. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for Lenovo branded products in the Laptops and netbooks category.

Also, there's not much in the way of configuration options, though you can find Intel-based versions of the IdeaPad 1 listed under the "IdeaPad 1i" name. Upgrades are sadly out of the question, as both the RAM and the eMMC storage are soldered directly to the system board. What's most notable about this IdeaPad is its 15.6-inch display—notable in that the laptop uses a relatively dull 1,366-by-768-pixel resolution and an older TN panel. This combination fails to meet the sort of sharpness and brightness expectations we have for current Windows machines. The first is brand. Looking at the brand of the product is often a really good indicator for judging product quality. For example you’d expect a much higher quality product from a brand known for providing excellent quality than you would from an unknown or even a budget brand. If the brand you buy is important to you, our best advice is to spend some time writing up your own list of ideal brands. That way when you come to the point where you’re comparing product options you can filter to only show the products from brands in your list.

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Unfortunately, part of this longevity comes from the display's noticeable dimness (and is also attributable to the very low native resolution). At full brightness, the HD screen produces just 258 nits—but that drops to a mere 32 nits when lowered to 50% brightness, as we do in our battery tests. Actual usability will require higher brightness, and even when dialed up to the highest setting, it won't offer much visibility in bright circumstances, like outdoor sunlight. More information on quality can be found in this old but still very helpful article from Harvard Business Review.

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