Lenovo IdeaPad Deals & Offers

for £400 this is as good as I can expect and a lot better than most around this price

What 30% cashback?

Also with the 30% cashback it works out cheaper on there parent companies website Littlewoods!

Tried to confirm what screen this has off very. No luck they're clueless lol. The identical laptop on John Lewis and Laptops direct states a 1080 screen.

TN (Twisted Nematic) is the most common technology and also the oldest. The main advantage is that it provides the shortest response times, making them good for gaming. they are cheap to manufacture, resulting in low prices for end users. The drawbacks to the technology is the color shifts that occur at wider viewing angles. There are large differences in quality between different products, but the lower-end ones will exhibit color shift even at moderate angle changes. A TN-based display can usually be identified through these color distortions when viewing the picture from above or from the sides.

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For less you can get the ezbook pro 3 or the Gemini nc14 from Chinese websites. Far better machines.

Got 2 of these for the kids... 10s is a great way to ensure they don’t accidentally install any malware/viruses... TBH it’s not slow either for what they want to do... for £150 you can’t expect it to do what something double it’s price does anyway

I tried the Celeron version of the laptop that ebuyer sell with a live Linux install, as I was tempted to hand over the laptop to my elderly relative without Windows and all it's upgrade and other nag woes. It seemed fine, but her printer wasn't compatible. So Windows remained. And I often use it to just do web look ups, and it's fast to boot and easy to use. Rather annoyingly I can't remember the distro I tried, but everything worked off the bat. The eMMC is a slight worry for me (but I don't think they are so bad). An operating system that loads entirely into RAM might well preserve the life of it. Or even having the browser with the cache in memory may help ease disk writes. I rather assumed Windows will do this, as they were tuning it for mobile phones at one point. But that's probably wishful thinking on my part. Do check the CPU works with Crostini or other ChromeOS variants if you do want to try it. My partner's Chromebook is a lower spec machine than this, and it's fine for ChromeOS with the 4GB ram.

Its a free upgrade to full windows 10 now

It's hot now the sheep have lost. Now they will all vote hot cos that's what sheep do follow.

Thanks for the advice... Just checked & no mention of gaming laptop tag (y)

I think the tag 'gaming laptop' gets added to every laptop deal which attracts the gaming nuts. Shame that hotukdeals do not fix this - I think you can go into edit and remove it OP if it is there.

Thanks for the advice... Thought I found a bargain & was shocked to see it go cold so quickly

No full HD scree and only 4GB RAM let's it down a bit but still a good price. Voted Hot

This seems good, it hits all the right points. 1080P Screen, 8th Gen i5, 8gb RAM, 256GB SSD.

if only this one was in stock

I don't think so after reading the technical details "Maximum Memory Supported - 8 GB"

Is ram upgradable?

Agree with above comments had one of these and the 720 model both run very hot and had noisy fans, The 720s battery was much better than the 520.

I bought one of these recently and two big issues for me. 1) The mouse pad is one of the most irritating things on earth. The buttons are integrated and i constantly end up zooming in or out when my fingers go near it. 2) its really slow at times just using basic speadsheets. in its defence it is quite light and better built than a HP.

You could use a M.2 SSD i.e 120-250GB as your boot drive for your operating system. Then use the 2.5'' 1/2TB HDD as storage. The only way to add an extra HDD is to swap out the optical drive for HDD caddy click/click. After you've taken your optical drive out you can pop it in an external case and still use it click.

SSD for fast louding speed and quicker performance. M.2 is an alternative to SSD, smaller in size and potentially fit an 1/2TB drive. However this model doesn't support M.2, so it's either SSD or 1/2TB Mechanical drive.

What is M2 and what is the slot for? Why would one prefer a small SSD drive as opposed to a large say 1/2tb drive? If one needed space for storage. Serious questions I'm not too up on these things.

Everyone be getting on them dell outlet deals soon enough like that steal of a 4k 7567 I should’ve gotten two (lol)

Fair enough comments - I ordered this as an 80th birthday present. It will literally be used once or twice a week for web browsing/emails and copying photos from camera to the hard drive. Not for office, gaming etc. I agree at £350 on Amazon this would be up against better laptops, but at £280 it seemed a steal If there are better sub £350 laptops - or better still 300quid - I'd welcome a recommendation and would consider cancelling my order....

Even the Ryzen laptops that are out are poorly configured by manufacturers.

you will be wasting your money getting this. The screen makes this impossible to recommed for the price when you can get much better laptops spec wise and screen wise for £50 more.

Anything AMD pre Ryzen and with a 768p screen should go to landfill by now. Sounds harsh. But spending a little extra gets a far better machine.

Ssd is very easy to upgrade with ssd slot . But CPU cannot be updated as nowadays it is soldered not socketed. Also screen cannot be upgraded . Most laptops allow to upgrade memory but new thinner and light do not .

Thanks. I was about to commit! Need an 8GB machine for ballpark £300.

It’s 4gb... Amazon title is not correct. Thanks.

Please update the title ram is 8gb

Hi, just checked, the price has gone up was £399.99.

I only have about £300 to spend. Would you say this one at £349 is the best I can get or it is it worth waiting for something else. It’s for my son homework mainly. Thx

Avoid buying from Lenovo direct at all costs. I purchased a laptop the mouse pad was dead on delivery. The build is super cheap and the only advise they give is to fo a full system restore back to manufacture. If I had purchased from currys or pc world I would have demanded a full refund not what you expect when purchasing a purported new item .also when using hdmi the external sound is full of drop out and time lags

ACER swift is actually really good. I might add bigger ssd. However Acer aspire with Ryzen 5 2500u is bit better in multicore benchmarks and graphic card is definitely "much" better than Intel on board graphics. https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/amd-ryzen-mobile-vs-intel-8th-gen-core

I just picked up the Swift 3 for myself, actually. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8155012 I've only tested LoL on it but it runs that very well even on high settings. That Aspire looks good though for the price. What do you think my machine would be capable of running? I understand the Ryzen chips have much better intergrated gfx.

Have you looked at Acer Aspire 3? Check below and if you decide to buy make sure to add a M. 2 SSD (may cost extra £40-60) and it'll beat i7 7500u and 940mx. https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-3-15-6-amd-ryzen-5-laptop-1-tb-hdd-black-10180944-pdt.html

Ryzen 5 2500u will beat i7 7500u cpu and 940mx while consuming less power (Ryzen cpu might be slightly slower in single thread works but definitely beat multicore)

This one does come with a usb 3.1 type c port

Well. You've sort of convinced me which is why I posted! Will buy.

That went out of stock too!

Did Argos run out of stock? If so there was another link posted for the same laptop on eBay for 350

No stock anywhere!

Are u guys updating to Windows 1803? Is it ok to stay on 1607

It was a cold day when I got mine, probably why I noticed it!

No worries pal

This is a 7th gen processor not 6th gen

this! second hand market is leagues ahead for the price you get out of a particular hardware. but the mindset is always brand new, especially a laptop since users are weary of things that go wrong but don't realise how easy it is to factory reset the hardware so its brand new. The funny thing is I got this laptop with the i5 6200u about 3 years ago for £390 from very , and the 6200u is better than this i3 and the price has only one down £25? lol what a joke

81FB0047UK ideapad 330S15ARR WE United Kingdom AMD Ryzen 5 2500U AMD Vega 8 Graphics 4GB Soldered + 4GB DIMM DDR4-2400 15.6" FHD (1920x1080) IPS 256GB SSD 11ac, 1x1 + BT4.1 Platinum Grey 720p Dual Array Non-backlit 52.5Wh 65W Windows 10 Home 64 1-year, Depot 07/18 Fair point, I stand corrected... just bought I Yoga, I like Lenovo.

Laptop does appear to have an IPS rather than TN panel screen. Search for this exact model number in the Lenovo PDF product guide below - 81FB0047UK. I've updated the description to clarify this. https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/i_pdf/ideapad_330S_(15_)_AMD_EMEA.pdf

It's TN according to the review and Lenovo website.

It's an IPS screen

Ryzen and comedy TN display? Think I'll spend another £150 on something twice as good.

Good point, lol. I was simply referring to a form of standardisation of some form basically? (whatever that proved itself to be, hehehehe). But fair though, it appears like the power's that be, need a wee bit more 'work' perhaps?, lol, it's cool still. :-D

Sorry, I couldn't understand what you mean by this, 5min till the end of the last day at work probably doesn't help either lol. But yes, thunderbolt is very versatile connection, especially when thunderbolt 3 uses USB-C connector and consumer would only benefit from manufacturers adding these ports on the laptops. I'm not sure if ISO standard could be applied in this case though. I think USB is open source design and Thunderbolt is patented by Intel. I might be wrong though :)

Lol, interesting historical 'breakdown' that ... thanx. Priority, became non-priority, but by way of what you've just explain above, it looks like (indirectly mind), it's kinda become 'priority' again? (more-or-less?). Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Looks like some ISO 'standardisation' needs to be put into play here I reckon?. :-) (How that would work in practice is anyone's guess?, but I reckon it could benefit many regardless ... ) :-)

You can use Thunderbolt 3 connection to get eGPU - that is currently the only nonproprietary connection. which works great with external GPU. Docking stations providing power, USB, audio and display connections also available via thunderbolt only. The only reason it is associated with Apple is because Intel was charging royalties for using thunderbolt and it wasn't cost effective for other manufacturers as they can't charge as much for their laptops. But thunderbolt is royalties free since mid 2017. However it became a premium feature, just like USB was in early mobile market. If thunderbolt is adopted by majority of manufacturers generic docking stations will become available and consumers no longer will be forced to buy manufacturer specific ones which always have some issues and most of the time are not even compatible with all laptops made by manufacturers.

"No thunderbolt in 2018". I believe your bag is more in line with Apple products instead perhaps?. Eg. get any one of those Macbook's that are currently out there, etc? (as that comes as standard with those products). Laptop's (more often then not), don't tend to have such (unless of course your initially prepared to pay wayyyyyy over the odds for such in the first place?). That's my understanding on it anyway.