Lenovo Ideapad 5i Slim - Intel Core i5-13420H, 16GB RAM (5200Mhz), 512GB SSD, 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200), IPS, Anti-Glare £486 @ Lenovo Student

Heads up to those that buy without OS and getting there own key. Have a usb mouse handy as trackpad won't work straight away during install and the WiFi won't work during setup in windows 11 so you'll have to install drivers yourself in command prompt during setup.

There is guides online on how to do this that say press shift and F10 however on these you need to press shift, fn and F10 to access command prompt to install the driver. Remember to extract it first on your flash drive and execute the batch file on command prompt.

Got one of these in the bank holiday deal and it is a nice laptop so far love the blue I got it in. (edited)

This was cheaper for non-students about 1-2 weeks ago and could have the 1TB SSD and improved WiFi 6E added at no extra charge.

Blistering fast 13gen processor, scores 19,500 on Passmark Bench speed tests, compare with Lenovo ideapad 3 which uses AMD Ryzen5 scores at 15,075.
I'll get a second user one in a couple of years time, when students will be selling these to pay off their student loans

Crazy specs for the money.

Decent gpu as well.

Always get a back-lit keyboard or RGB, everybody knows it makes it faster.

does it have thunderbolt?

Ships in 6+ Weeks

Is this laptop better than a Macbook Air M1?

For non students, lenovo are handing out 10% vouchers non stop and the student discount is 10% iirc so you’ll be able to get this for a similar price . I found a pop up kept coming up on their site, or if you sign up add to basket and leave they keep emailing you them.

I got it for £415 a couple of weeks ago but this is still the best value i5 laptop on the site I’ve seen since

will this be able to handle Photoshop elements

£405 without an OS - absolute bargain