Lenovo IdeaPad Deals & Offers

The pixels don't matter to me, I just look at numbers on my screen. Can someone advise me on the minimum specs I'd probably need to have about 5-10 tabs of betting exchanges for trading? I'm thinking that only really RAM might be that important but not too sure.

Oh right

Almost useless. I suppose that i should clarify that 720p laptops are not entirely useless when youre spending 2-3 hundred, going for a pentium, non ssd and where your budget is everything and intend to do basic computing. Even then 720p laptops above 11" look terrible and manufacturers should stop producing them. Theyre from an era that died in 2007. Phones nearing 4k whilst laptops on 720p, has the world gone mad? At this size, this price point with an i5 and ssd, all that tends to go to waste when youre staring at an ugly 100 ppi! Its akin to buying a brand new sports car and putting square wheels on it.

I’d agree, resolution is probably the only feature that you can’t really make do with less of. Many people use them as desktop replacements and every desktop is min 1080P. Possibly followed by lightness if you have to travel with it. Just my experience from buying them for a company. If you’ve ever sat in front of a Mac Retina display, you’ll know how pleasing it is to work with.

I wasn't talking about the number of pixels. I was referring to you saying crud like "resolution is critical" and "720p makes the laptop useless" - that's your opinion, and just not correct for many people

sorry mate didn't check, wrapped up as it's birthday present

Please could you share if the storage 128 SSD only or 128 SSD + 1TB HDD ?

next day

I ordered yesterday evening but it still just says 'order received' how long did it take for you to get to the dispatch stage / receive tracking info? Also, what are your first impressions like?

just received mine it is that model with the 8th gen cpu

Ha the latter, first thing I did was open the windows store and upgrade it for free as I have zero interest in Windows 10s... looking at it from a license point of view, this laptop is a bargain.

Upgrade from Windows 10S to 10 Pro is free! Unless you meant that buying 10 Pro alone costs almost the same as this laptop with it...which is true :D

Not a great processor.

I have this, I bought it for watching netflix/youtube at home and taking notes at work. For this, its fine. I upgraded it to Windows 10 pro (license for which is almost the same cost as the laptop) and enabled bitlocker... still works fine for this purpose. As long as you know what you're getting, its fine. Big feature releases of windows require a USB stick and an hour or two to install but this isn't a major problem for me. Cheap enough to not worry about, is fairly ruggedly built, has USB C, no fan so leaving it on the sofa is fine and is silent... Screen is pretty rubbish but hey I'm super happy with my purchase. It also runs ubuntu/linux like a champ, not noticed anything that didn't work and no faffing required.

I was looking at this. Has anybody got any recommendations for 64gb notebook for around £150 ish. thanks

There are better laptops for your buck out there. Currys have some better options even. Cold from me

£600 for old spec dual core is too much in my opinion.

The 14" 720S with same specs was £650 on the black Friday sales so this seems a good price. However, the Lenovo forums have lots of complaints about the fans running constantly at high rpm, although there are some user solutions in the form of bios tweaks, but nothing official AFAIK.

Good price but seems to get terrible reviews.

If Box.co.uk go OOS, do try Lenovo direct which currently has stock of same item at same price.

3 in stock for delivery I have this and would agree with OP. Tis good

OOS

What do you mean by "video quality"?

Posted this at a higher price last week. Had to send the one I bought back as the video quality was terrible. Big ssd but apart from that its massively overpriced

There is very little difference between the i5 8250u and the i7 8550u

TCB doing £40 for all Windows laptops over £499.99 too (excited)

seems very good to me - espc for the price

Looks like your eBay dream came true lol, glad I waited after seing that comment!!! (y)

I'm with you on that. Hopefully the bargains will appear when the returns start flooding back.

I've just got to the point where I'm not buying one for a few weeks now. Hopefully something comes up where everyone agrees on being a great laptop, cheers for the Input mate

Thanks for the suggestion, I need 1 TB storage minimum (moving stuff to a network drive, a portable hard drive or cloud storage doesn't work for me) and a 15.6" screen. I was considering a Ryzen 5 model direct from Acer that had 1 TB HDD + 128 GB SSD (but not IPS), but then I saw all the comments on this site about throttling of Ryzen 5s and that has put me off buying one. The i3 version of the Lenovo in the original post is on ao.com for £399, which is also tempting. https://ao.com/product/81f500dquk-lenovo-laptop-black-59544-251.aspx

Have you considered the HP from AO with Ryzen 5 for £425? - IPS screen and I think the RAM is easily changeable but it comes with 8GB anyway, so wouldn't necessarily need doing. Only 14" though, so no good if you definitely need 15".

now down to £579 and i7 version is £679

Why Woikd you buy this over the gaming laptops at John Lewis?

You can get a similar spec HP but with a more powerful Ryzen 5 CPU for £429 at AO. This has the bigger SSD but other than that seems a poor price compared to the HP.

Processor- Intel® Core™ i5-8250U Processor - Quad-core - 1.6 GHz / 3.4 GHz - 6 MB cacheRAM8 GB DDR4 (2400 MHz) Screen type- IPS LCD Resolution- Full HD 1920 x 1080p

You were lucky then. I was told that if I send the faulty item back they'd dispose of it and put a charge on my account! No refund. This has happened twice with them. I had to get in touch with the manufacturer myself who sorted it straight away. No accidental damage or anything, were genuine faults. Was within 12 months too. I definitely don't trust them anymore. Ask to speak to a supervisor/manager & they're never available, they'll call you back but never do. Email them and get a stupid automated response etc... Also a few years ago, had a Nexus 7 from them, broke just before the 12 months was up. Found out that it was a known fault with those tablets. Was made to jump through hoops. Had to send recorded letters to them. In the end they told me to get a report of the fault, which I did & had to pay for, basically to prove that it wasn't my fault. After that they still didn't deal with it. Started ignoring me. I gave up in the end... :\

I bought a laptop from them last year that was faulty. Chose the item in order and asked for a return and had no issues.

Why the bad rating for this laptop?

Seems good value for money if you are on a budget.

Yes you could 'TRY' and send it back. Very are absolutely terrible for customer service. https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.very.co.uk Never buy anything, other than clothes, that you'd want to return. They don't even take faulty on receipt items back. They tell you to contact the manufacturer!

The 65" LG is £100 cheaper at John Lewis Sh!te sale price.

will have a look tomorrow .....Thanks op

Clickbait - Cold.

Yep, not loving these reductions, was hoping tv’s would be cheaper

The 55" LG TV is £30 cheaper at Richer Sounds and they give a 6 year guarantee with this TV.

409 less cost of RAM and SSD = £60 saving on new.

Who is selling it new for £360? Cheapest I could find was AO.com at £409

https://www.windowscentral.com/lenovo-ideapad-330-review This appears to have an m2 slot so having a large hd is probably a good thing. Add a cheap m2 ssd and you are flying

3 things let this down 1 Hard drive speed 5400RPM 2 Resolution 1600 x 900 pixels 3 And by ossociation - no SSD

Well you can play Fortnite, etc. on a Ryzen 3 for starters, I’d say that’s a fairly big bonus for many. There’s nothing wrong with Core i3 8th gen but if you’re buying it for office work and browsing then you might as well get something with an SSD and not have to fit one later - wouldn’t bother me but many people I know wouldn’t dream of opening a laptop and fitting their own parts.

On the new Lenovo Ideapad S130 11.6 model I tried a few weeks ago, it had the solder pins for the M.2 but no socket fitted, same as the video above shows it missing. The older Lenovo 32Gb eMMC machines had the socket.

You never know, it's hardly a goliath of processing power, will they manufacturer different boards for all the variants? 02:30 into it, the motherboard seems to indicate the potential for an M.2 drive. Whether what you get delivered has the connection header for it is a different matter. Admittedly it's for the S120, but You just never know what these crafty manufacturers get up to these days.

Depends how many tabs you have open! My Windows tablet with 2gb ram would see slow downs with chrome using multiple tabs

You need nowhere near 4GB physical RAM to have a web browser and a word document open at the same time.

I very much doubt it. These things are designed to be as small as possible. They wouldn't leave a big empty space, unless they reused the whole chassis from one which had a conventional hard drive or SSD.

Good processor, nice screen; possibly IPS looking at ARGOS Q&A. Why don't ARGOS say it's IPS? Ruined by a 5400 RPM HDD and only 4GB RAM bottlenecks. 5 minute boot,virus scan and ms update taking forever.

(lol)

Sounds like you got ripped off. i5 to start with , half the storage 2g ram less wtf

I’m no expert when it comes to computers, but how does this compare to it at this price?? https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8333315

i5 8th Gen is far better a processor than 7th gen with lesser core i7. No way this specs commands this price of 949. 700ish is still ok.

I stand by both comments.

Yeah your first comment said cold because of the 64gb eMMC then when asked to explain you came up with some nonsense about it being pointless due to the size - then when challenged about that you moved onto say it's because it might fail. Enough of your nonsense!

I voted cold because of the eMMC and the 64GB. Read my first comment!

Well first of all you voted cold as the 64gb wasn't big enough - making it "a pretty pointless machine". Now it's because it might fail? Rather than accept it's not cold, you're clutching at straws! btw - the laptop comes with a 1 year warranty, which can be upgraded to 3 years with Lenovo for just £20.30.

Apologises , Although it showed it in the picture the spec listed on eBay didn't. The most common failure on any computer/laptop. Its the storage device, Yet this one can't replaced as it's soldered to the motherboard. If it was replaceable it would be ok as it gives you option for future upgrades.

Damn just read a review about throttling. Didn't know this existed outside of internet speeds! More complications for a noob buyer! EDIT this for the 'better' laptop posted inside this deal above somewhere (AO).

Me too. Obviously a collective madness. (skeptical)

15" Ryzen version with 8gb is in Argos eBay. Refurbished.

oh yeah, i agree - i even checked the website when you said the hp had more ram, and still swear it said 8 gig. i must be going mad. not worth it for 4 really.

That's alright. I spent SO long looking for a good laptop and found what I would consider a bargain. It's not a bad deal... but there are better deals